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Columbia Giants
The Columbia Giants were a professional, black baseball team based in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, prior to the Negro leagues. Founding In 1899, a group known as the Columbia Club, organized the Columbia Giants under the direction of John W. Patterson. Many of the original players including Patterson came from the recently disbanded Page Fence Giants. Patterson also signed Chicago Unions pitcher Harry Buckner. 1899 season In 1899, managed by Al Garrett, they beat the Chicago Unions for the western championship, winning game one 4–2 and game two 6–0. Stars included (Grant) Home Run Johnson at shortstop, Charlie Grant at second base, and (George) Chappie Johnson at first base and catcher. They lost a cross-country title match with the Cuban X-Giants by a 7–4 score. Home Run Johnson homered in two of the three major matches. 1900 season At the beginning of the season, in May, the team included George Wilson, Sol White, Charlie Grant, Joseph "Cannon Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 In Baseball
Champions *National League (baseball), National League: Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn Superbas Statistical leaders National League final standings Events *March 28 – The contract of pitcher Cy Young is sold by the Cleveland Spiders to St. Louis. *March 29 – The contracts of Patsy Tebeau, Harry Blake, Frank Bates, Jimmy Burke, Jesse Burkett, Cupid Childs, Lou Criger, George Cuppy, Cowboy Jones, Emmet Heidrick, Pete McBride, Jack O'Connor, Ed McKean, Jack Powell, Ossee Schrecongost, Bobby Wallace, and Zeke Wilson are all transferred from the Cleveland Spiders to St. Louis. The Spiders are then stocked with cast offs and fringe players and would finish with a 20–134 record, the worst ever in baseball. *May 15 – Willie Keeler, known as one of the smallest players and best Bunt (baseball), bunters in baseball, drives the ball past startled left fielder Ed Delahanty of the 1899 Philadelphia Phillies season, Philadelphia Phillies for an inside-the-park Grand slam (basebal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol White
King Solomon White (June 12, 1868 – August 26, 1955) was an American professional baseball infielder, manager (baseball), manager and executive, and one of the pioneers of the Negro league baseball, Negro leagues. An active sportswriter for many years, he wrote the first definitive history of black baseball in 1907. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2006. Early life Born in Bellaire, Ohio, White's early life is not well-documented. According to the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Census, his family (parents and two oldest siblings) came from Virginia. His father, Saul Solomon White, apparently died when White was very young. White's mother, Judith, supported Sol and four siblings with her work as a "washer woman." White "learned to play ball when quite a youngster."White 1995, p. 5. Playing career As a teenager White was a fan of the Bellaire Globes, local amateurs. The journalist Floyd J. Calvin recounts the story of how White got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Baseball Teams In Chicago
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This list of Negro league baseball teams is split into two pages, one listing the major league Negro teams and one listing the minor league and traveling Negro teams. Some teams are included in both lists. *List of major Negro league baseball teams * List of minor Negro league baseball teams {{Set index article teams Negro league The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relativel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Chicago American Giants
The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster, they were charter members of Foster's Negro National League. The American Giants won five pennants in that league, along with another pennant in the 1932 Negro Southern League and a second-half championship in Gus Greenlee's Negro National League in 1934. Founding In 1910, Foster, captain of the Chicago Leland Giants, wrestled legal control of the name "Leland Giants" away from the team's owner, Frank Leland. That season, featuring Hall of Fame shortstop John Henry Lloyd, outfielder Pete Hill, second baseman Grant Johnson, catcher Bruce Petway, and pitcher Frank Wickware, the Leland Giants reportedly won 123 games while losing only 6. In 1911, Foster renamed the club the "American Giants". Franchise continuum Dat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Giants
The Chicago Giants were a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois which played in the Negro leagues from 1910 to 1921. History The team was founded by Frank Leland after he and his partner, Rube Foster, split up the Leland Giants in 1910. Frank Leland's new club was sometimes also known as Leland's Chicago Giants, until a court injunction forced Frank Leland to stop using the name Leland Giants. A 1910 article about an upcoming game and parade, announced everyone would wear the team colors, "white and maroon." After Leland's death, November 14, 1914, the team came under the control of longtime player Charles "Joe" Green. In 1920, the Chicago Giants became a founding member of the Negro National League (NNL). They played as a travelling team, without a home field, and finished in last place in both 1920 and 1921. Their best player was a young catcher/shortstop named John Beckwith, who was purchased by Rube Foster for his Chicago American Giants The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Union Giants
The Leland Giants, originally the Chicago Union Giants, were a Negro league baseball team that competed independently during the first decade of the 20th century. The team was formed via a merge of the Chicago Unions and the Chicago Columbia Giants in 1901, and then split in 1910 to form the Chicago Giants and what would become known as the Chicago American Giants. The team was named after its owner and manager, Frank Leland. History In a 1910 article, former shortstop Jimmy Smith described the 1905 season by saying the team "made a great record of 43 straight wins" between May 19 and July 16, 1905, when they were finally beat by the Spalding team on their home grounds in Chicago. Bruce Petway took over catching duties in 1906 and the talent improved dramatically in 1907 as Rube Foster (HOF), Pete Hill (HOF), "Big Bill" Gatewood, "Mike" Moore and four other players came from East Coast teams. The 1907 team compiled a 110–10 record, including 48 straight wins. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Leland
Frank C. Leland (1869 – November 14, 1914) was an American baseball player, field manager and club owner in the Negro leagues. Early life and career beginnings Leland was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1879 to 1886. He began his professional career with the Washington Capital Cities in the 1887 National League of Colored Baseball Clubs, a team which played no league games before the experiment collapsed. He "moved to Chicago and was instrumental in organizing and developing five successful baseball teams in that city" (Riley, 475). In 1888, he organized the black amateur Union Base Ball Club, with sponsorship from some of Chicago's black businessmen, Henry Elby, Albert Donegan, and W. S. Peters. Leland obtained a lease from the city government to play at South Side Park, a 5,000-seat facility. In 1898 his team went pro and became the Chicago Unions. He played outfield with the Unions in the 1880s. Leland also worked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Holland (baseball)
William Holland (born February 1874) was a Negro leagues pitcher and infielder for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League. Career Billy began playing baseball on a team in Aurora, IL named Pug's Colts. He was about 18 at the time. He went on to have an illustrious career with many of the best teams in the country. "Billy Holland, Pitching Phenomenon" https://www.aurorahistory.org/author/gprobst/ Holland made his professional debut at the age of 20 with the Chicago Unions in 1894, and moved to the Page Fence Giants in 1895. He went back to the Unions in 1897, and by 1899 most of the former Page Fence Giants had moved to Chicago, Illinois to form the Columbia Giants. Holland joined the Columbia Giants in their second season. Holland signed with the Renville, Minnesota team in April 1904. He then traveled back to Chicago and played the 1905 season with the Leland Giants. By 1906, Holland moved to the east and played a couple seasons for the Brooklyn Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherman Barton
Sherman "Bucky" Barton (February 2, 1875 - July 11, 1947) was an American outfielder in the Negro leagues. Sherman's brother, Eugene Barton also played baseball, playing for the cross-town team Minneapolis Keystones while Sherman played for the St. Paul Colored Gophers, beginning in 1907. Barton died at the age of 72 years in Chicago, Illinois Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite .... References External links 1875 births 1947 deaths Page Fence Giants players Algona Brownies players Chicago Giants players Columbia Giants players Leland Giants players St. Paul Colored Gophers players Baseball outfielders 20th-century African-American sportsmen 20th-century American sportsmen Baseball players from Normal, Illinois {{Negro-league-baseball-outfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Burns (baseball)
Peter Burns (January 1870 – death date unknown) was an American Negro leagues catcher for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League. Little is known about Burns at this time, but records show him on teams lists and in newspaper reports from 1890 to 1900. He played with several of the big players of the day, such as Chappie Johnson, Charlie Grant, Sherman Barton, and he caught for the famous pitcher of the day George Wilson. During his time with the Page Fence Giants The Page Fence Giants were a professional Black-American baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan, from 1895 to 1898, performing as one of the nation's top teams in the Negro leagues. Named after the Page Woven Wire Fence Company in Adrian, they ..., Burns often caught for Bill Holland. References External links anSeamheads Chicago Unions players Columbia Giants players Page Fence Giants players Baseball players from Alabama 20th-century deaths 1870 births Year of death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
