SEE PHOTO—– COMPLETE ORIGINAL newspaper, the Baltimore News (MD) dated Oct 11, 1924. Inside page heading and report on the Negro League baseball team from Baltimore, the baltimore Black Sox plaaing the Major League Philadelphia Americans. Very early Negro League baseball as they were one of the original six teams to make up the Eastern Colored League in
Sure handed with good range and a strong arm, Judy Johnson was an all-around great third baseman. The 5′11″, 145 lb. Johnson was a good instinctive base runner, which offset his lack of outstanding speed. A righthanded line-drive hitter with an excellent batting eye, he hit for good average but not with exceptional power.
Playing with […]
UNIVERSITY PARK — Willie Fordham, Jim Weedon and Dan Werner spent more than an hour before Sunday’s State College Spikes game against the Brooklyn Cyclones describing the conditions they endured to play baseball.
Too bad the players lounging on the leather furniture, munching on fresh fruit and watching television didn’t stop by Porter Gardens for a […]
Dennis “Bose” Biddle, a pitcher in the former Negro Baseball League, pitched for the Chicago American Giants during the 1953 and 1954 seasons. The youngest living player in the history of Negro League Baseball, Biddle was named “The Man Who Beat the Man Who Beat the Man” at age 17 when he out pitched Lefty McKinnis, […]
African-American entrepeneur Rube Foster and partner John Schorling (who founded the Chicago American Giants in 1911) joined with other owners at the Kansas City YMCA to form the Negro National League. The eight teams included the Chicago Giants, Chicago American Giants, Kansas City Monarchs, Indianapolis ABCs, Dayton Marcos, St. Louis Giants, Detroit Stars, and the […]