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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. The NSL operated on an irregular basis as each season ...
They joined the Texas-Louisiana Negro League in 1930, and by 1935 they were an independent club. [1] When the second Negro Southern League formed in 1945, the Black Pelicans were charter members, [1] but did not affiliate with the league again until 1950. [2]
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: Kansas City: Missouri: 1990 [124] Negro Southern League Museum Birmingham Alabama 2014 [125] New Orleans African American Museum: New Orleans: Louisiana: 1988 [126] Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center: Newport News: Virginia: 1991 [127] Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center: Niagara Falls: New ...
Additionally, a new league, the Negro American Association, formed and lured away at least four of the stronger teams, including the Atlanta Black Crackers. The league did not organize for the 1952 season due to attendance figures being expected to be too low to be profitable. The second Negro Southern League was dissolved after seven seasons.
The Negro Leagues have been in the news a lot lately. Shortly after celebrating their 100th anniversary in August, Major League Baseball said the league had officially been elevated to Major ...
New Orleans Pelicans – Southern Association (1915–1957) New Orleans Ads aka New Orleans Black Pelicans – Negro Southern League (1920) New Orleans–St. Louis Stars – Negro American League (1941) – half their home games (other half in St. Louis) New Orleans Creoles – late 1940s Location: South Carrollton Avenue (northwest, home plate ...
Negro Southern League (1932) NSL only organized league to complete the 1932 season (Considered de facto Major League) [31] New Orleans Ads: 1920: 1920: Negro Southern League (1920) Team often referred to as the Caulfield Ads [32] New Orleans Black Pelicans: 1926: 1950: Negro Southern League (1926) Independent (1927–29, 1932–44, 1946–49)
Negro Southern League (1920–36) Negro Southern League (1945–51) See also. NSL (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 21 April 2018, at 23:03 (UTC). Text is ...