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The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago -based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster, they were charter members of Foster's Negro National League.
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 ...
Andrew " Rube " Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. Foster, considered by historians to have been perhaps the best African-American pitcher of the first decade of the 1900s, also founded and managed the ...
* — 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).
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. On-going research continuously discovers unreported or misreported games (and the affected players), while some games and players may be lost ...
Pepper Bassett. Harry Bauchman. Hank Baylis. John Beckwith (baseball) Cool Papa Bell. Sam Bennett (baseball) Cleo Benson. Junius Bibbs. Dennis Biddle.
In 1920, the Chicago Giants became a founding member of the Negro National League (NNL). They played as a travelling team, without a home field, and finished in last place in both 1920 and 1921. Their best player was a young catcher/shortstop named John Beckwith, who was purchased by Rube Foster for his Chicago American Giants after the 1921 ...
Chicago American Giants (1948–1949, 1951) Lonnie Summers (August 2, 1915 – August 24, 1999), nicknamed "Carl", was an American Negro league infielder from the 1930s to the 1950s. A native of Davis, Oklahoma, Summers attended Jacob Riis High School in Los Angeles, California. [1] A strong hitter known for his powerful line drives, [2] he ...