Negro Leagues DB Update: 1908 & 1909 Negro Leagues
May 18, 2012 by Gary Ashwill · Leave a Comment
The 1908 season saw the emergence of a national scene in black professional baseball. Two important eastern teams, the Philadelphia Giants and the Cuban Giants of New York, made trips to the Midwest, their most notable opponent being Rube Foster‘s new powerhouse, the Chicago Leland Giants. The Cuban Stars of Havana spent significant time in […]
Negro Leagues DB Update: 1910 & 1911 Negro Leagues
May 4, 2012 by Gary Ashwill · Leave a Comment
This week we’ve added the 1910 and 1911 Negro leagues to the DB. This gives us the pleasure of presenting statistics for one of black baseball’s great teams, the Chicago Leland Giants of 1910. Led by Pete Hill and John Henry Lloyd, both in their prime, a 37-year-old Grant Johnson, and the brilliant pitching of […]