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Atlanta Black Crackers, 1938
Atlantic City Bacharach Giants, 1926
Baltimore Black Sox , 1929
Baltimore Elite Giants, 1942
Birmingham Black Barons
1943
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1948
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Chicago American Giants
1917 Team
1921
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1927
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1933
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Chicago Leland Giants, 1910,
Cleveland Buckeyes 1945
Detroit Stars, 1930
Hilldale Daisies, 1925
Harrisburg Giants, 1925
Homestead Grays
1931 Team
1938 Team
1943
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1948 Team
Indianapolis ABC's, 1916
Kansas City Monarchs
1924
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1929 Team
1942
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1946
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Memphis Red Sox, 1938
Newark Eagles
1937
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1946
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New York Lincoln Giants
1913
Team
1930
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New York Cubans, 1947
Philadelphia Stars, 1934
Pittsburgh Crawfords
1932
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1935 Team
St. Louis Stars, 1930
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After Rube Foster became incapacitated
from a mental breakdown, the mantle of team leadership fell to his protege' David
Malarcher. Under Malarcher's direction, the American Giants won consecutive Championships
in his first two seasons at the helm, 1926-27. Each year, the team won one half of the
Negro National League's split season, defeated the winner of the other half in a playoff,
and defeated the Eastern Colored League Champions in the World Series. In 1927, they won
the first half with a .696 percentage and swept the Birmingham Black Barons in the
play-off for the league title. Then, in a rematch of the previous year's World Series
Teams, they defeated the Bacharach Giants five games to three. Playing manager Malarcher's
mound ace was Rube Foster's half-brother, Willie Foster, considered the best left-hander
in the history of black baseball. The Chicago offense was furnished by Walter "Steel
Arm" Davis and Pythias Russ. In 1928, they came close to a third title, winning the
second half of the split season. |
