List of Negro League baseball teams
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This list follows the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri.-History:The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990 by a group of former Negro Leagues baseball players, including Kansas City Monarchs outfielder, Alfred Surratt, Buck O'Neil, and Horace Peterson...

 of Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

, in using the term "Negro leagues" for the highest level of play for black
Black
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 baseball during racial segregation
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 in the United States
United States
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. Many of these teams reorganized or relocated which necessitated changing of names and frequently its players, staff, and owner.

These and other teams for blacks are included on the template at the bottom of this page.

Teams by state:

Alabama

  • Birmingham Black Barons
    Birmingham Black Barons
    The Birmingham Black Barons played professional baseball for Birmingham, Alabama, in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1960 when the Major Leagues successfully integrated...

  • Mobile Black Bears
  • Mobile Tigers
    Mobile Tigers
    The Mobile Tigers, a semi-professional baseball team composed entirely of African-American players based in Mobile, Alabama, was among the leading teams in the Negro League...

  • Montgomery Grey Sox
    Montgomery Grey Sox
    The Montgomery Grey Sox were a Negro Southern League baseball team based in Montgomery, Alabama. While the NSL was regarded as a minor league throughout most of its existence, with the collapse of the first Negro National League in 1932, the league is considered a major league for that one...


California

  • Los Angeles White Sox
  • Oakland Larks
  • San Diego Tigers
  • San Francisco Sea Lions

District of Columbia

  • Washington Black Senators
    Washington Black Senators
    The Washington Black Senators were a Negro league baseball team based in Washington, DC. When the Washington Elite Giants moved to Baltimore, MD in 1938, the gap was filled in by the Black Senators. They were just 2–13 in the Negro National League...

  • Washington Elite Giants
    Baltimore Elite Giants
    The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from to . The team was established by Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nashville Standard Giants on March 26, 1920. The team was renamed the Elite Giants in , and would move to...

  • Washington Pilots
  • Washington Potomacs
  • Washington-Homestead Grays
    Homestead Grays
    The Homestead Grays were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues in the United States. The team was formed in 1912 by Cumberland Posey, and would remain in continuous operation for 38 seasons. The team was based in Homestead, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.-Franchise...


Illinois

  • 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...

  • Chicago Brown Bombers
  • Chicago Columbia Giants
    Chicago Columbia Giants
    The Columbia Giants were a professional, black baseball team based in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, prior to the Negro Leagues.- Founding :...

  • Chicago Giants
    Chicago Giants
    The Chicago Giants were a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois which played in the Negro Leagues. The team was founded by Frank Leland after he and his partner, Rube Foster, split up the Leland Giants in 1910. The new club was sometimes also known as the Leland Giants...

  • Chicago Union Giants
  • Chicago Unions
    Chicago Unions
    The Chicago Unions were a professional, black baseball team that played in the late 19th century, prior to the formation of the Negro Leagues.- Founding :...

  • 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....


Kentucky

  • Louisville Black Caps
    Louisville Black Caps
    Louisville Black Caps was a professional baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky which played in the Negro Leagues, specifically in the Negro Southern League. The Black Caps played in 1932, then departed Louisville to play as the Columbus Turfs....

  • Louisville Black Colonels
  • Louisville White Sox
    Louisville White Sox
    The Louisville White Sox were a baseball team in the Negro National League in 1931, based in Louisville, Kentucky. In their only season, they finished with a 19–23 record in league play.After the 1931 season, they were replaced by the Louisville Black Caps....

  • Zulu Cannibal Giants
    Zulu Cannibal Giants
    The Zulu Cannibal Giants were an African American baseball team formed in 1938 by Charlie Henry in Louisville, Kentucky....


Louisiana

  • Monroe Monarchs
    Monroe Monarchs
    The Monroe Monarchs were a professional baseball team based in Monroe, Louisiana, which played in the Negro Leagues from the late 1920s to 1935. The team was created by Fred Stovall, a Texan oil drilling millionaire, who later financed the Negro Southern League. In the 1930s, a time of acute...

  • New Orleans Black Eagles
  • New Orleans Crescent Stars
  • New Orleans Pelicans
  • New Orleans Stars
  • Shreveport Acme Giants

Missouri

  • Kansas City Monarchs
    Kansas City Monarchs
    The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro Leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri and owned by J.L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. J.L. Wilkinson was the first Caucasian owner at the time...

  • St. Louis Stars
    St. Louis Stars (baseball)
    The St. Louis Stars were a Negro League baseball team that competed in the Negro National League from 1922 to 1931. Founded when Dick Kent and Dr. Sam Sheppard took over the St...

  • St. Louis Giants
    St. Louis Giants
    The St. Louis Giants were a Negro League baseball team that competed independently from as early as 1906 to 1919, and joined the Negro National League for the 1920 and 1921 seasons. After the 1921 season, the franchise was sold to another group of investors, who built a new park and renamed the...


New Jersey

  • Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
  • Cuban X-Giants
    Cuban X-Giants
    The Cuban X-Giants were an African-American professional baseball team for about ten seasons around 1900. Originally most of the players were former Cuban Giants, or ex-Giants....

  • Jersey City Colored Athletics
  • Long Branch Cubans
  • Newark Browns
  • Newark Dodgers
  • Newark Eagles
    Newark Eagles
    The Newark Eagles was a professional Negro league baseball team that played in the second Negro National League from 1936 to 1948.- Formation :...


New York

  • Brooklyn Eagles
  • Brooklyn Royal Giants
    Brooklyn Royal Giants
    The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York which played in the Negro Leagues. They were one of the premier professional teams before World War I, winning multiple championships in the East.- League play :...

  • Harlem Stars
  • Lincoln Giants
    Lincoln Giants
    The Lincoln Giants were a Negro League baseball team based in New York City from 1911 through 1930.- Founding :Jess McMahon, a white promoter, hired Sol White, former manager of the Philadelphia Giants, to put together a club...

  • Lincoln Stars
  • New York Black Yankees
    New York Black Yankees
    The New York Black Yankees was a professional baseball team based in New York City, Paterson, NJ, and Rochester, NY which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948. The Black Yankees played in Paterson, New Jersey from 1933-1937 and then from 1939-1945. The 1938 season saw the Black...

  • New York Cubans
    New York Cubans
    The New York Cubans were a Negro league baseball team that played during the 1930s and from 1939 to 1950. Despite playing in the Negro leagues, the team occasionally employed white-skinned Hispanic baseball players as well, because Hispanics in general were largely ignored by the major league...


Ohio

  • Cincinnati Browns
    Cincinnati Browns
    The Cincinnati Browns were a professional baseball team in the National Colored Base Ball League, the first attempt at a professional Negro League in 1887. Although the league folded after just one week, the Browns continued to play for a time....

  • Cincinnati Buckeyes
    Cleveland Buckeyes
    The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues. They were established in 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio . The following season, the team moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where they played their games at League Park...

  • Cincinnati Clowns
  • Cincinnati Cubans
    Cuban Stars (West)
    The Cuban Stars were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that competed in the United States Negro leagues from 1907 to 1932. The team was also sometimes known as the Stars of Cuba, the Cuban All-Stars, the Havana Reds, the Almendares Blues, or simply as the Cubans. For one season, 1921,...

  • Cincinnati Tigers
    Cincinnati Tigers
    The Cincinnati Tigers were a professional baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, which played in the Negro Leagues. The Tigers were founded in 1934 by DeHart Hubbard, the first black to win an individual Olympic gold medal when he won the long jump during the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1937, the...

  • Cleveland Bears
  • Cleveland Buckeyes
    Cleveland Buckeyes
    The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues. They were established in 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio . The following season, the team moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where they played their games at League Park...

  • Cleveland Cubs
  • Cleveland Elites
  • Cleveland Hornets
    Cleveland Hornets
    The Cleveland Hornets were a baseball team in the Negro National League, based in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1927. In their only season, they finished with a 17-42 record in league play....

  • Cleveland Red Sox
  • Cleveland Tate Stars
    Cleveland Tate Stars
    The Cleveland Tate Stars were a baseball team in the Negro National League in 1922. In their only season, they finished last of eight clubs with a 17-29 record in league play....

  • Cleveland Tigers
  • Columbus Elite Giants
  • Columbus Blue Birds
    Columbus Blue Birds
    The Columbus Blue Birds was a professional baseball team based in Columbus, Ohio in 1933.Their name appears to have been derived from that of the Columbus Red Birds , the top-level minor league baseball team that played in the American Association from 1931 through 1954.The Blue Birds, which was...

  • Dayton Marcos
    Dayton Marcos
    The Dayton Marcos were a Negro League baseball team that is now defunct along with the Negro League. They were based from Dayton, Ohio.- Founding :The Dayton Marcos history does go back farther than the Negro League though...

  • Toledo Crawfords
  • Toledo Rays
  • Toledo Tigers
    Toledo Tigers
    The Toledo Tigers were a Negro National League team that operated during the season, its only season in the league, representing Toledo, Ohio. It played its home games at Toledo's Swayne Field, home of the minor league Mud Hens....


Pennsylvania

  • Harrisburg Giants
    Harrisburg Giants
    The Harrisburg Giants were a U.S. professional baseball team in the Negro Leagues, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They joined the Eastern Colored League for the 1924 season with Hall of Fame center fielder Oscar Charleston as playing manager...

  • Harrisburg Monrovians
  • Hilldale Daisies
  • Homestead Grays
    Homestead Grays
    The Homestead Grays were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues in the United States. The team was formed in 1912 by Cumberland Posey, and would remain in continuous operation for 38 seasons. The team was based in Homestead, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.-Franchise...

  • Philadelphia Pythians
    Philadelphia Pythians
    The Philadelphia Pythians were a black baseball team that existed in the 19th century. They first came about in the 1867, with Octavius Catto playing shortstop for the team.They played in the League of Colored Baseball Clubs in 1887 and went 4-1....

  • Philadelphia Giants
    Philadelphia Giants
    The Philadelphia Giants were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1902 to 1916. From 1904 to 1909 they were one of the strongest teams in black baseball, winning five eastern championships in six years. The team was organized by Sol White, H. Walter Schlichter, and Harry Smith.- Founding...

  • Philadelphia Stars
    Philadelphia Stars (baseball)
    The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro league baseball team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden returned to professional black baseball after being idle since early 1930...

  • Philadelphia Tigers
    Philadelphia Tigers
    The Philadelphia Tigers were a Negro League baseball team that played briefly in the 1928 Eastern Colored League before the circuit disbanded in early June...

  • Pittsburgh Crawfords
    Pittsburgh Crawfords
    The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named after the Crawford Grill, a club in the Hill District of Pittsburgh owned by Gus Greenlee, the Crawfords were originally a youth semipro team sponsored by...

  • Pittsburgh Keystones

Tennessee

  • Chattanooga Black Lookouts
    Chattanooga Black Lookouts
    The Chattanooga Black Lookouts was a professional baseball team based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which played in the Negro Leagues. They were established in 1920, only to play for one season. They were reestablished in 1926 to play for two seasons, serving as a farm team of the Homestead Grays of...

  • Chattanooga Choo-Choos
    Chattanooga Choo-Choos
    The Chattanooga Choo-Choos were a professional baseball team based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The organization operated in the Negro Southern League, a minor league division of the Negro Major Leagues and fielded a team from until . The Choo-Choos played their home games at Engel Stadium...

  • Memphis Red Sox
    Memphis Red Sox
    The Memphis Red Sox were a professional Negro League baseball team based in Memphis, Tennessee from the 1920s until the end of segregated baseball....

  • Nashville Elite Giants
    Baltimore Elite Giants
    The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from to . The team was established by Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nashville Standard Giants on March 26, 1920. The team was renamed the Elite Giants in , and would move to...

  • Tennessee Rats

Texas

  • Austin Black Senators
    Austin Black Senators
    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...

  • Houston Eagles
  • Mineola Black Spiders
    Mineola Black Spiders
    The Mineola Black Spiders, also called the Texas Black Spiders, were an independent, generally all-black baseball team. They originated in and were loosely based from Mineola, Texas....

  • San Antonio Black Bronchos
  • San Antonio Black Indians

Traveling teams

  • All Cubans
    All Cubans
    The All Cubans were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that toured the United States during 1899 and 1902-05, playing against white semiprofessional and Negro league teams. The team was the first Latin American professional baseball team to tour the United States...

  • All Nations
    All Nations
    All Nations was the name of a barnstorming professional baseball team that toured the Midwest from 1912 to 1918. It derived its name from the fact that its team including players of several nationalities, including blacks and whites, Indians, Hawaiians, Orientals, and Latin Americans. The team was...

  • Chappie Johnson's Stars, led by George Chappie Johnson
    Chappie Johnson
    George "Chappie" Johnson was an African-American baseball catcher and field manager in the Negro leagues. He played for many of the best teams around 1900 and 1910 and he crossed racial boundaries as a teacher and coach....

     (1876–1949)
  • Colored House of David
  • Cuban Stars (East)
    Cuban Stars (East)
    The Cuban Stars were a team of professional baseball players from Cuba and other Latin American countries who competed in the Negro leagues in the eastern United States from 1916 to 1933...

  • Cuban Stars (West)
    Cuban Stars (West)
    The Cuban Stars were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that competed in the United States Negro leagues from 1907 to 1932. The team was also sometimes known as the Stars of Cuba, the Cuban All-Stars, the Havana Reds, the Almendares Blues, or simply as the Cubans. For one season, 1921,...

  • Ethiopian Clowns
    Ethiopian Clowns
    The Ethiopian Clowns were an independent barnstorming baseball team. Originally based in Miami, Florida, the team was founded by Sid Pollock in 1937....



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