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The Chicago White Sox have honored the American Giants by wearing replica uniforms during regular-season baseball games on several occasions, including July 1, 2007 (at Kansas City), July 26, 2008 (at home vs. Detroit), and July 16, 2011, during the 9th Annual Negro League weekend at Detroit, where the home team also wore the jerseys of the ...
Cole's American Giants: 1932‡ Major NSL1: 1 1st 46 34 12 0 .739 Won NSL split-season playoff (Nashville Elite Giants 2) 4–3 [28] 1933: Major NNL2: 2 — 64 41 22 1 .651 [29] 1934^ Major NNL2 3 1st 51 28 20 3 .583 Lost NNL split-season playoff (Philadelphia Stars 2) 4–3–1 [30] 1935: Major NNL2 6 DNQ 56 24 31 1 .436 [31] Chicago American ...
The following is the list of players on the Chicago American Giants all-time roster.These are Chicago American Giants players who appeared in at least one game for the American Giants from 1910 to 1956.
* — The Chicago American Giants split from the Leland Giants who themselves were the result of a merge between the Chicago Unions and the Chicago Columbia Giants. Excluding co-championships of the Columbia Giants and Unions in 1899 and 1900, this group of related teams can claim a total of 18 championships (7 earned, 8 declared, 3 unofficial).
Led by Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the NNL was established on February 13, 1920, by a coalition of team owners at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA. [1] The formation included the creation of the NLL constitution, written by journalist Cary B. Lewis , David Wyatt from the Indianapolis Ledger , Elwood C. Knox ...
James McCurine Jr. (May 8, 1921 – May 24, 2002), nicknamed "Big Stick", was an American Negro league outfielder for the Chicago American Giants from 1946 to 1949. A native of Clinton, Kentucky, McCurine's powerful hitting caught the eye of Chicago American Giants manager Candy Jim Taylor in a 1945 exhibition game.
The 1927 Colored World Series was the championship tournament for the 1927 season of Negro league baseball.It was the fourth overall Series played. It matched the Chicago American Giants, champions of the Negro National League (1920–1931) and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey, champions of the Eastern Colored League.
In 1918, he played for the Chicago American Giants team that compiled a 20-8-2 record and finished first among the Western independent clubs. [4] Wesley joined the Detroit Stars, then a Western independent club, for the 1919 season. [3] In 1920, Wesley's second season with Detroit, he led the Negro National League with 11 home runs in 64 games.