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The following is the list of players on the Baltimore Elite Giants all-time roster. These are Baltimore Elite Giants players who appeared in at least one game for the Elite Giants, based in either Nashville , Columbus , Washington or Baltimore , or for the Nashville Standard Giants from 1919 to 1951.
The team was established by Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nashville Standard Giants on March 26, 1920. The team was renamed the Elite Giants in 1921, and moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1938, where the team remained for the duration of their existence. The team and its fans pronounced the word "Elite" as "ee-light".
Columbus Elite Giants: 1935: Major NNL2 3 DNQ 55 29 24 2 .547 [13] Washington Elite Giants: 1936^ Major NNL2 5 2nd 64 29 34 1 .460 Declared NNL split-season runner-up to (Pittsburgh Crawfords 1) [14] 1937: Major NNL2 5 — 62 23 36 3 .390 [15] Baltimore Elite Giants: 1938: Major NNL2 3 — 52 26 23 3 .531 [16] 1939‡ Major NNL2 4 — 44 21 23 ...
1920: Pensacola Giants: 1920: Nashville Elite Giants: 1921–1923, 1926–27, 1929, 1931–32: Nashville White Sox: 1920 • Possibly same franchise as or related to Elite Giants Chattanooga Tigers: 1921–22: Chattanooga: 1920 • Associate team only • Possibly same franchise as or related to Tigers Louisville: 1920 • Associate team only ...
While the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1948 are retroactively considered "major league", black baseball had existed for several years prior, with varying levels of organization. 1913 was a matchup of two teams considered the best of their regions: the New York Lincoln Giants of the East, and the Chicago American Giants of the West (as a whole, the "West" region for baseball at any level was ...
Nashville Elite Giants (1928–1933) Felton Stratton (November 3, 1895 – December 25, 1974) was an American baseball infielder in the Negro leagues . He played from 1920 to 1933 with several teams.
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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".