The Chicago Giants were a professional baseball

Baseball

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 team based in Chicago, Illinois

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 which played in the Negro Leagues. The team was founded by Frank Leland

Frank Leland

Frank C. Leland was an African-American baseball player, field manager and club owner in the Negro Leagues.Leland was born in Memphis, Tennessee...

 after he and his partner, Rube Foster, split up the Leland Giants

Leland Giants

The Chicago Union Giants, the top black baseball team in the Midwest or West in the first decade of the 20th century, changed its name in 1905 to the Leland Giants, after manager and owner Frank Leland....

 in 1910. The new club was sometimes also known as the Leland Giants. After Leland's death, the team came under the control of longtime player Joe Green.

In a post-season 1913

1913 Philadelphia Phillies season

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 exhibition game, Cyclone Joe Williams

Cyclone Joe Williams

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 defeated Grover Cleveland Alexander

Grover Cleveland Alexander

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 and the Phillies.

In 1920, the Chicago Giants became a founding member of the Negro National League

Negro National League (the first)

The Negro National League was one of the several Negro leagues which were established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. Led by Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the NNL was established on February 13, 1920 by a...

 (NNL). They played as a travelling team, without a home field, and finished in last place in both 1920 and 1921. Their best player was a young catcher/shortstop named John Beckwith, who was purchased by Rube Foster for his Chicago American Giants

Chicago American Giants

Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball...

after the 1921 season. In 1922, the Chicago Giants left the NNL (though they remained associate members for several years), and continued to play as an independent team well into the 1940s.