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 […]
Negro Leagues DB Update: 1914 & 1915 Negro Leagues
January 15, 2012 by Gary Ashwill · Leave a Comment
New to the DB this week are the 1914 and 1915 Negro leagues. The 1914 season in particular marks a turning point in black baseball history, as Charles Isham Taylor, former manager of the Birmingham Giants and West Baden Sprudels, arrived in Indianapolis to take over the A.B.C.s, bringing along with him his three ballplaying […]
Negro Leagues Database Update: American Series in Cuba, 1904-1915
October 22, 2011 by Gary Ashwill · Leave a Comment
In the 1900s and 1910s, with Cuba newly independent from Spain but under heavy U.S. influence (and sometimes occupation), a baseball exchange formed between the two countries. In the summers teams of the best Cuban players toured the U.S. as the “All-Cubans” or the “Cuban Stars”; in the fall American teams traveled to Havana to […]
