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Select a Team. The 16 featured teams below were selected after consultation with John Thorn, the Official Historian for MLB, and other Negro Leagues experts. More teams will be added regularly as we seek to preserve and honor those who helped define the Negro Leagues, and its impact on the game.
- Kansas City Monarchs
The Kansas City Monarchs were one of the Negro Leagues’ most...
- Atlanta Black Crackers
In 1938, the only season in which the Black Crackers played...
- Baltimore Elite Giants
Still relatively new to Baltimore, they defeated an...
- Memphis Red Sox
Owned by two brothers/dentists, Dr. J.B. Martin and Dr. B.B....
- Chicago American Giants
The team was organized by Rube Foster, known as the father...
- Cuban X-Giants
Though not a member of organized Negro League baseball, the...
- Kansas City Monarchs
This list of major Negro league baseball teams consists of teams that played in the seven major Negro baseball leagues. For a league to be considered "major," there were usually two top-tier leagues at a time: one representing the northeastern states – known as the "East", and one representing the north-central states – known as the "West".
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 relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed "Negro Major Leagues".
Apr 13, 2017 · A turning point for Black baseball came in 1920, when Rube Foster founded the Negro National League. It launched with eight teams: Chicago American Giants, Chicago Giants, Cuban Stars, Dayton ...
Some of the most outstanding teams that played in the Negro “Leagues” were as follows: Atlantic City Bacharach Giants. Harrisburg Giants. Newark Eagles. Baltimore Black Sox. Hilldale Daisies. New York Black Yankees. Baltimore Elite Giants. Homestead Grays. New York Cubans. Birmingham Black Barons. Indianapolis Clowns. Philadelphia Stars.
Though the Negro Leagues were finished, their creation had done its job: Black ballplayers had proven that they could play on even terms with their white counterparts – and challenge Major League Baseball at the box office, too.
Mar 31, 2024 · Negro league, any of the associations of African American baseball teams active largely between 1920 and the late 1940s, when Black players were at last contracted to play major and minor league baseball. The principal Negro leagues were the Negro National League (1920–31, 1933–48), the Eastern Colored League (1923–28), and the Negro ...
