Louisville Fall City
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Louisville Fall City was a a professional baseball
team based in Louisville, Kentucky
which played in the Negro Leagues
. The Fall City team played in the National Colored Base Ball League
, also known as the League of Colored Baseball Clubs, throughout that league's brief existence in 1887.
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 Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
which played in the Negro Leagues
Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in...
. The Fall City team played in the National Colored Base Ball League
National Colored Base Ball League
The National Colored Base Ball League or the League of Colored Baseball Clubs was the first attempt to have a league consisting of all-black teams, predating Rube Foster's Negro National League by over three decades. The league president was Walter S. Brown, who was also manager of the Pittsburgh...
, also known as the League of Colored Baseball Clubs, throughout that league's brief existence in 1887.