The East Texas Negro League, also referred to as the Negro East Texas League, was a
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 ...
baseball league that operated for one season in 1946.
The league fielded 11 teams in the two
Southern states of
Louisiana
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and
Texas
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.
List of teams (in alphabetical order)
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Cuney All Stars (1946)
*Gilmer (1946)
*Henderson (1946)
*Jacksonville (1946)
*Longview (1946)
*Marshall (1946)
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Paris Brown Sox (1946)
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Sherman Bearcats (1946)
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Shreveport Black Sports (1946)
*Texarkana (1946)
*Tyler (1946)
See also
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Negro league baseball
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 ...
References
External links
Center for Negro League Research
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Defunct minor baseball leagues in the United States
Negro baseball leagues
Baseball leagues in Louisiana
Baseball leagues in Texas
Sports leagues established in 1951
1951 establishments in Texas
African-American history of Texas
African-American history of Louisiana