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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 ...
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 Marcos National Negro League home opener was on June 12, 1920 at Westwood Field (present day James H. McGee Blvd. and Rosedale), a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Giants. [10] Local Koke Alexander led the team in hitting with a .350 batting average, while rookie George "Chippy" Britt was the Marcos' workhorse on the mound. [11]
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 ...
The Negro Southern League was a Negro baseball league organized by Tom Wilson in 1920 [1] as a minor league. Leagues in the depression-era Southern United States were far less organized and lucrative than those in the north, owing to a smaller population base and a lower standard of living.
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The following is a timeline of the evolution of major-league-caliber franchises in Negro league baseball.The franchises included are those of high-caliber independent teams prior to the organization of formal league play in 1920 and concludes with the dissolution of the remnant of the last major Negro league team, the Kansas City Monarchs then based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in about 1966.