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Lists of Negro league baseball teams. This list of Negro league baseball teams is split into two pages, one listing the major league Negro teams and one listing the minor league and traveling Negro teams. Some teams are included in both lists. This article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).
The New Orleans Crescent Stars were an independent Negro league baseball club that existed from 1933 to 1934. [1] The New Orleans team helped produce several players as Pepper Bassett, Gene Bremer, Lloyd Davenport, Harry Else, Barney Morris, Tom Parker, Red Parnell, Hilton Smith and Felton Snow, who managed them at one point. [2] [3] The team ...
The New Orleans Black Pelicans were a minor Negro league baseball team that played in the first Negro Southern League and were based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They were formed in 1926 to replace the New Orleans Ads in the league and played at Pelican Stadium. [ 1] They joined the Texas-Louisiana Negro League in 1930, and by 1935 they were an ...
The Negro Southern League (NSL) was one of the several Negro baseball leagues created during the time organized baseball was segregated. The NSL was organized as a minor league in 1920 and lasted until 1936. It was considered a major league for the 1932 season and it was also the only organized league to finish its full schedule that season ...
Negro Texas League, 1949. Negro American League, 1951–1960 – considered a major league from 1937 until integration diminished the quality of play around 1950/51. Arkansas–Louisiana–Texas League, 1951. Eastern Negro League, 1954. Negro National Baseball Association, 1954. Below is the list of minor Negro league teams.
The New Orleans Baby Cakes (formerly the New Orleans Zephyrs) were a Minor League Baseball team in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. They were located in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, and played their home games at the Shrine on Airline . The team began play in 1993 as a member of ...
The Pelicans' name briefly resurfaced during the 1977 season when oilman A. Ray Smith moved his Triple-A Tulsa Oilers to New Orleans to play in the Superdome. Tony La Russa was a reserve infielder for the team, playing most of his games at 2nd base. After a single season, the team then moved to Springfield, Illinois, and was renamed the Redbirds.
Pelican Stadium/Heinemann Park, 1934. The stadium was designed by New Orleans architect Emile Weil and constructed at the southeast corner of Tulane Avenue and South Carrollton Avenue in Mid-City New Orleans, an area that was only recently being developed thanks to improved drainage. A short lived amusement park called "White City", was on the ...