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Seasons in which the Crawfords were league members (or an associate team), only games that counted in official league standings are included. Seasons in which they had no league membership and played an independent/ barnstorming schedule include games against primarily major-league-caliber teams.
The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The team, previously known as the Crawford Colored Giants, [1] was named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District.
The following is the list of players on the Pittsburgh Crawfords all-time roster.These are Pittsburgh Crawfords players who appeared in at least one game for the Crawfords while they were based either in Pittsburgh from 1931 to 1938, Toledo in 1939, or Indianapolis in 1940.
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The first game was held the next day, April 30, 1932. Future hall of famer Satchel Paige pitched to catcher Josh Gibson as City Council members, the Allegheny County commissioners and Mayor Kline watched from the stands. Greenlee Field held seven thousand five hundred spectators and was the home field for the Crawfords throughout the Great ...
Oscar McKinley Charleston (October 14, 1896 – October 5, 1954) was an American center fielder, first baseman and manager in Negro league baseball and the Cuban League.Over his 43-year baseball career, Charleston played or managed with more than a dozen teams, including the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Negro league baseball's leading teams in the 1930s.
For a while, the Crawfords were the best-financed team in black baseball. Revenue generated from his gambling and bootlegging operations enabled Greenlee to sign black baseball's biggest names. The 1935 squad may have been the best ever to play in the Negro leagues, as it fielded five Baseball Hall of Fame players.
Pittsburgh Crawfords (1938) Henry Richardson (August 26, 1917 – July 10, 1981) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues . He played with the Washington Black Senators and the Pittsburgh Crawfords in 1938. [ 1 ]