The Negro National League II ceased operations in 1948. Now available in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro National League in 1920. Cleveland Cubs (1931) – Returned to Nashville in 1932 after NNL folded. The NNL Pennant winner met the champion of the rival Negro American League. 1933: Formation of NNL2 consisting of 7 teams — Baltimore Black Sox, Cole's American Giants, Columbus Blue Birds, Indianapolis ABCs (II) (moved to Detroit in April), Homestead Grays, Nashville Elite Giants and Pittsburgh Crawfords; Homestead was expelled early in the season for raiding Detroit's roster, Columbus was replaced mid-season by the Akron Black Tyrites who were then replaced by the Cleveland Giants. The war between the two leagues came to an end in 1924, when they agreed to respect each other's contracts and arranged for the Colored World Series between their champions. From 1937 and 1938, 1940, and 1942 through 1946, the team in first place at the end of the season was declared the Pennant winner. professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans The early success of the Negro National League prompted the formation of the Eastern Colored League in 1923. * – Pennant was decided via a 2-round play-off between the top four teams. League fell apart before season end. Five out of the seven years, the Negro National League team (below in bold) prevailed. It lasted until 1948. The winner of the first half played the winner of the second half for the league Pennant. As mentioned above, disputes also occurred in the split season finishes. 491 pages. National recognition of the Stars became apparent when they joined the Negro National League and won the league's championship in 1934. April 11, 2020. 1924: Dropped Toledo Tigers, Milwaukee Bears, Indianapolis ABCs (mid-season); Added Cleveland Browns, Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox (mid-season). From 2.1 Batters; 2.2 Pitchers; 3 Postseason; Standings BOLD indicates League Champion Negro National League Source: The Negro Leagues Book by Dick Clark and Larry Lester. 1934 – Philadelphia Stars† won best half of season however Crawfords with better whole season record disputed title. For the duration of the league, a Colored World Series took place four times, from 1924 through 1927. The winner of the first half played the winner of the second half for the league Pennant. 1926: Dropped Memphis Red Sox, Birmingham Black Barons; Added Cleveland Elites, re-added Dayton Marcos. The two leagues converged to play … Generally, the team with the best winning percentage (with some minimum number of games played) was awarded the Pennant, but other times it was the team with the most victories. Major League Baseball has officially recognized the Negro Leagues as major league teams — 100 years after their creation. English. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-stars-who-played-in-negro-leagues The NAL Pennant winner met the champion of the rival Negro National League. The NNL Pennant winner met the champion of the rival Eastern Colored League. Negro Leagues celebrate 100th anniversary 02:58. This led to some disputed championships and two teams claiming the title. Rank Team G W L WPCT 1: Homestead Grays: 30: 21: 9.700 2: Newark Eagles: 33: 19: 14 Five out of the seven years, the Negro American League team (below in bold) succumbed. The Negro Baseball Leagues were professional leagues in the United States for players of African descent. The celebration of the centennial of the founding of the Negro National League, an organization of professional baseball, will be commemorated with three coins issued in 2022. 1734494425. The NSL was a minor league before and after the 1932 season. Publication date. A separate Negro National League was organized in 1933, but eventually became concentrated on the east coast. SABR recommended big league status for the Negro National League I (1920-31), Negro National League II, (1933-48), Negro American League (1937-48), Eastern Colored League, (1923-28), American Negro League (1929), East-West League 932) and Negro Southern League (1932). ‡ – Pennant winner went on to play in the Negro World Series. The end of Negro League Baseball came quickly after World War II. Roughly 3,400 men who played in seven Negro Leagues 2 The two Negro National Leagues, the Negro American League, the Eastern Colored League, the American Negro League, the East-West League and the Negro Southern League. In the second game of a four-team Negro National League doubleheader on Aug. 13, 1939, this shot in time shows Homestead Grays slugging first baseman Buck Leonard scoring as the result of a three-run, eighth-inning home run, helping his team to a 10-5 win over the New York Black Yankees. In 2021 Major League Baseball officially designated the Negro Leagues as 'Major League'. The two most important east coast clubs, the Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, were affiliated with the NNL as associate clubs from 1920 to 1922, but did not compete for the championship. The Negro Baseball Leagues provided African Americans their own American pastime. Absent … The designated period covered 1920-1948. From 1925 through 1931, the NNL split the season into two halves. The Negro National League (NNL) was one of the several Negro leagues which were established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. The team ended in 1956. The American Giants won five pennants in that league, along with another pennant in the 1932 Negro Southern League and a second-half championship in Gus Greenlee's Negro National League in 1934. After that, its surviving teams merged into the Negro American League.[2]. 1931 – St. Louis Stars† (season did not finish; Stars had best record among league members and were declared the champions, 1925 – Kansas City Monarchs (first half champions) beat St. Louis Stars (second half champions), 5 games to 3 games, 1926 – Chicago American Giants (2nd half) beat Kansas City Monarchs (1st half), 5 games to 4 games, 1927 – Chicago American Giants (1st half) beat Birmingham Black Barons (2nd half), 4 games to 0 games, 1928 – St. Louis Stars (1st half) beat Chicago American Giants (2nd half), 5 games to 4 games, 1929 – Kansas City Monarchs (both first and second half champions), 1930 – St. Louis Stars (1st half) beat Detroit Stars (2nd half), 4 games to 3 games, 1931 – St. Louis Stars (both first and second half champions), This page was last edited on 29 April 2021, at 05:09. The "games behind" method of recording standings was uncommon in most black leagues. 1922: Dropped Columbus Buckeyes, Chicago Giants; Added Cleveland Tate Stars, Pittsburgh Keystones. 1933 – Cole's American Giants (first half champions) tied Pittsburgh Crawfords (second half champions), 1 tie game, 1934 – Philadelphia Stars (2nd half) beat Chicago American Giants (1st half), 4 games to 3 games, 1 tie, 1935 – Pittsburgh Crawfords (1st half) beat New York Cubans (2nd half), 5 games to 2 games, 1936 – Pittsburgh Crawfords (2nd half) over Washington Elite Giants (1st half), declared – no games played, 1939 – 1st round: Washington Homestead Grays (1st place) beat Philadelphia Stars (4th place), 3 games to 2 games, 1941 – Washington Homestead Grays (1st half) beat New York Cubans (2nd half), 2 games to 1 games, 1947 – New York Cubans (2nd half) over Newark Eagles (1st half), 1948 – Washington Homestead Grays (2nd half) over Baltimore Elite Giants (1st half), This page was last edited on 30 March 2021, at 04:40. 1937: Dropped New York Cubans; Added New York Black Yankees. Dimensions. The NNL finally fell apart in 1931 under the economic stress of the Great Depression. From 1920 through 1924, the team in first place at the end of the season was declared the Pennant winner. Due to the unorthodox nature of the schedule (and little incentive to enforce it), some teams frequently played many more games than others did in any given season. †The Brooklyn Eagles and Newark Dodgers merged to form the Newark Eagles in 1936. About the Negro League Data Sources. Led by Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the NNL was established on February 13, 1920 by a coalition of team owners at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA. Between the 1920s and 1950s there would be ten professional Black leagues, though the most successful were the Negro National League (NNL) which operated between 1920 and 1931 and then from 1933 through 1948 and the Negro American League (NAL) from 1937 to 1960.27 It is hardly coincidental that successful organized Black baseball began in this period. At its height of popularity, from 1920 through World War II, Negro Baseball Leagues were an integral part of African-American life and culture during the Jim Crow Era. At first the league operated mainly in midwestern cities, ranging from Kansas City in the west to Pittsburgh in the east; in 1924 it expanded into the south, adding franchises in Birmingham and Memphis. 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In 1923 they and four other eastern teams formed the Eastern Colored League (ECL) and raided the NNL for many of its top players, including John Henry Lloyd, Biz Mackey, George Scales, George Carr, and Clint Thomas, and signing Oscar Charleston, and Reuben Currie in 1924. At first the league operated mainly in midwestern cities, ranging from Kansas City in the west to Pittsburgh in the east; in 1924 it expanded into the south, adding franchises in Birmingham and Memphis. That league also folded (1891) and the Cuban Giants returned to independent status. After the close of the 1948 season, in the aftermath of Jackie Robinson 's successful integration of Major League Baseball a year earlier, the Negro National League contracted and merged into the Negro American League. The Negro National League is Founded | Baseball Hall of Fame https://www.mlb.com/news/negro-leaguers-in-the-national-baseball-hall-of-fame The new league was the first African-American baseball circuit to achieve stability and last more than one season. Playing statistics for 1923 (except Negro League vs. Major League games), copyright 2011-2018 Patrick Rock. A second Negro National League was formed in 1933, and consisted of east coast cities. This led to some disputed championships and two teams claiming the title. Due to the unorthodox nature of the schedule (and little incentive to enforce it), some teams frequently played many more games than others did in any given season. from 1920 to 1948 will be recognized. For the duration of the league, a Negro World Series took place seven times, from 1942 through 1948. 978-1734494426. 1923: Dropped Cleveland Tate Stars (mid-season), Pittsburgh Keystones; Added Toledo Tigers (mid-season), Milwaukee Bears. Negro American League , 1937–60 or so; after 1950, the league and its teams operated after a fashion, mostly as barnstorming units, but historians have a hard time deciding when the league actually came to an end. 1936: Dropped Cole's American Giants; Brooklyn and Newark merged. The Negro American League, founded in 1937 and including several of the same teams that played in the original Negro National League, would eventually carry on as the western circuit of black baseball. "Negro League Baseball Players Association: History", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Indianapolis ABC's (II) / Detroit Stars (II), http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/history101.html, https://www.retroseasons.com/leagues/nnl/1941/playoffs/, Atlanta Black Crackers/Indianapolis ABCs (IV), Indianapolis ABCs (II)/New Orleans–St. 1942 – Kansas City Monarchs beat Washington Homestead Grays, 4 games to 0 games [1] The second NNL lasted until 1948, the year after Major League Baseball integrated. Generally, the team with the best winning percentage (with some minimum number of games played) was awarded the Pennant, but other times it was the team with the most victories. 1934: Dropped Cleveland Giants, Detroit Stars, Baltimore Black Sox (I); Added Philadelphia Bacharach Giants, Cleveland Red Sox, Philadelphia Stars and Baltimore Black Sox (II); Retained Homestead Grays as an associate team. Three out of the four years, the Negro National League team (below in bold) prevailed. From 1925 through 1928, and again in 1930, the NNL split the season into two halves. 1948: League disbanded after completion of season; All teams continued on with Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark and New York Cubans joining the, 1933 – Cole's Chicago American Giants (first half), Pittsburgh Crawfords (second half with better overall)†. For the duration of the league, a Negro World Series took place seven times, from 1942 through 1948. 1920: Formation of NNL consisting of 8 teams – Chicago American Giants, Detroit Stars, Kansas City Monarchs, Indianapolis ABCs, St. Louis Giants, Cuban Stars, Dayton Marcos and Chicago Giants. As mentioned above, disputes also occurred in the split season finishes. This data comes from two sources. [1] The new league was the first African-American baseball circuit to achieve stability and last more than one season. 1927: Dropped Dayton Marcos, Indianapolis ABCs; Re-added Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox. Led by Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the NNL was established on February 13, 1920 by a coalition of team owners at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA. The Negro American League continued for two more years, but in a reduced capacity. For this story, we included only the statistics compiled in those leagues — and against opponents in the Negro Leagues. Nineteen thirty-three also saw the introduction of the East-West All-Star Game in Chicago, which rivaled the Major Leagues’ All-Star Game (also introduced that year) in popularity and attendance. The "games behind" method of recording standings was uncommon in most black leagues. † – Pennant was decided via a split-season schedule with the winner of the first half of the season playing the winner of the second half of the season, unless one team won both halves. Tom Edwards takes a look back at the Negro Leagues, celebrating their 100th anniversary. 1935: Dropped Philadelphia Bacharach Giants, Baltimore Black Sox (II) and Cleveland Red Sox; Added Brooklyn Eagles, Homestead Grays, New York Cubans and Newark Dodgers. The NNL survived controversies over umpiring, scheduling, and what some perceived as league president Rube Foster's disproportionate influence and favoritism toward his own team. 1.1 Negro National League; 1.2 Negro American League; 1.3 Independent Teams; 2 Leading Players. The Negro National League folded after the 1931 season. 8.5 x 1.23 x 11 inches. ... and delegates from six other teams organized the second iteration of the Negro National League, known as the NNL II… ISBN-10. 1925: Dropped Cleveland Browns; Re-added Indianapolis ABCs. http://www.nlbpa.com/st__louis_stars.html, Atlanta Black Crackers/Indianapolis ABCs (IV), Indianapolis ABCs (II)/New Orleans–St. ‡ – Pennant winner went on to play in the Colored World Series. Negro National League II 1934 / 1936 All Leagues Negro National League II (NN2) NNL II Championship Series (NLC) Independent Clubs (IND) East-West All Star Games (EWA) 1) The Negro Leagues Researchers and Authors Group put together by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum thanks to a grant provided by Major League Baseball. The seven leagues are the Negro National League (I) (1920-31), the Eastern Colored League (1923-28), the American Negro League (1929), the East-West League (1932), the Negro Southern League (1932), the Negro National League (II) (1933-48) and the Negro American League (1937-48). Playing statistics for 1887-1922 and 1926-1938, as well as all Cuban League games (1902-1928) and Negro League vs. Major League games (1887-1944), copyright 2011-2018 Gary Ashwill. On May 2, 1920, the inaugural season of the Negro National League commenced in Indianapolis. Minor league Total Zone (Rctch&Rtz, 2005-2009) data provided by Baseballprojection.com and Minorleaguesplits.com. Print length. Previous page. It was the first of several professional baseball leagues known as the Negro Leagues. † – Pennant was decided via a split-season schedule with the winner of the first half of the season playing the winner of the second half of the season. 1921: Dropped Dayton Marcos; Added Columbus Buckeyes. The second Negro National League was established in 1933 by Gus Greenlee, an African-American businessman of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, two years after the first Negro National League (NNL) had disbanded, after the start of the Great Depression. Annual final standings: 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 Language. 1931: Dropped Memphis Red Sox, Birmingham Black Barons, Cuban Stars; Added Louisville White Sox, (new) Indianapolis ABCs. However, organized Black baseball rose again in 1933 with the founding of the new Negro National League, soon followed by the Negro American League. But the Negro National League’s ascent was stunted after Foster was exposed to a gas leak, nearly died and suffered permanent brain damage. To distinguish between the two unrelated leagues, they are usually referred to as the first Negro National League (or NNL I) and the second Negro National League (or NNL II). The second Negro National League, founded in 1933 by businessman Gus Greenlee of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the several Negro leagues created during the time when professional organized baseball was segregated. NAL- Negro American League 1937-1950 NNL- Negro National League 1920-1948 NSL- Negro Southern League 1932 - The Negro Southern League was the only major circuit to complete its schedule in 1932. In 1947 the reintegration of the baseball leagues started with the signing of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers (New York). It also outlasted Foster's decline into mental illness in 1926, and its eastern rival, the ECL, which folded in early 1928. The seven leagues that comprised the Negro Leagues of 1920-1948 were the Negro National League (I) (1920–1931); the Eastern Colored League (1923–1928); the American Negro League (1929); the East-West League (1932); the Negro Southern League (1932); the Negro … ISBN-13. …’50s, separate Black professional leagues—the Negro leagues—existed as well, but in 1947 Jackie Robinson crossed the long-standing colour bar in major league baseball.Because baseball was the national game, its racial integration was of enormous symbolic importance in the United States; indeed, it preceded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision ending… Negro National League (II), 1933–48. Louis Stars, Southern League of Colored Base Ballists (1886), International League of Independent Professional Base Ball Clubs (1906), National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs of the United States and Cuba (1907–1909), West Coast Negro Baseball Association (1946), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Negro_National_League_(1920–1931)&oldid=1020453236, Defunct baseball leagues in the United States, 1931 disestablishments in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. 1939: Dropped Pittsburgh Crawfords and Washington Black Senators; Re-added New York Cubans. Black Yankees Washington Black Senators ; Re-added Birmingham Black Barons ; Added Toledo Tigers mid-season. ( IV ), Indianapolis ABCs the rival Negro American League. [ 2 ] Dropped Red. Brooklyn Eagles and Newark merged championship in 1934 after NNL folded ; Added Cleveland Stars. 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