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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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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
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1930
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New York Cubans, 1947
Philadelphia Stars, 1934
Pittsburgh Crawfords
1932
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St. Louis Stars, 1930
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During the nine-year skein of pennants by the Homestead Grays, Tom Wilson's Elite Giants often pushed them to the wire. The two teams were neck-and-neck in the 1942 pennant stretch, headed for a blanket finish, when Roy Campanella and Sammy T. Hughes left the team to showcase for the major leagues in an exhibition game and were given a suspension. The Elites still finished a close second. Spitball ace Bill Byrd and lefthander Jonas Gaines kept the Elites in the race all year, with support from the bats of George Scales and an outfield of hard-hitters, Wild Bill Wright, Henry Kimbro and Bill Hoskins.