Austin Black Senators
Encyclopedia
The Austin Black Senators were a professional baseball
team based in Austin
, Texas
which played in the Negro Leagues. The Black Senators adopted the name of their white, Texas League
counterparts sometime in the early 1910s. The team started as an independent, then joined the Texas Negro League followed by the Texas-Oklahoma Negro League.
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
team based in Austin
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
which played in the Negro Leagues. The Black Senators adopted the name of their white, Texas League
Texas League
The Texas League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the South Central United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892...
counterparts sometime in the early 1910s. The team started as an independent, then joined the Texas Negro League followed by the Texas-Oklahoma Negro League.