- List of Negro league baseball teams
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This list follows the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum of Kansas City, Missouri, in using the term "Negro leagues" for the highest level of play for black baseball during racial segregation in the United States. 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
- Mobile Black Bears
- Mobile Tigers
- Montgomery Grey Sox
Arkansas
- Little Rock Black Travelers
California
- Los Angeles White Sox
- Oakland Larks
- San Diego Tigers
- San Francisco Sea Lions
Colorado
- Denver White Elephants
Delaware
- Wilmington Potomacs
District of Columbia
- Washington Black Senators
- Washington Elite Giants
- Washington Pilots
- Washington Potomacs
- Washington-Homestead Grays
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
- Chicago American Giants
- Chicago Brown Bombers
- Chicago Columbia Giants
- Chicago Giants
- Chicago Union Giants
- Chicago Unions
- Leland Giants
Indiana
- Indianapolis ABC's
- Indianapolis Clowns
- Indianapolis Athletics
Kansas
- Kansas City Giants
Kentucky
- Louisville Black Caps
- Louisville Black Colonels
- Louisville White Sox
- Zulu Cannibal Giants
Louisiana
- Monroe Monarchs
- New Orleans Black Eagles
- New Orleans Crescent Stars
- New Orleans Pelicans
- New Orleans Stars
- Shreveport Acme Giants
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
- St. Paul Colored Gophers
- Twin City Colored Giants
Missouri
New Jersey
- Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
- Cuban X-Giants
- Jersey City Colored Athletics
- Long Branch Cubans
- Newark Browns
- Newark Dodgers
- Newark Eagles
New York
- Brooklyn Eagles
- Brooklyn Royal Giants
- Harlem Stars
- Lincoln Giants
- Lincoln Stars
- New York Black Yankees
- New York Cubans
Ohio
- Cincinnati Browns
- Cincinnati Buckeyes
- Cincinnati Clowns
- Cincinnati Cubans
- Cincinnati Tigers
- Cleveland Bears
- Cleveland Buckeyes
- Cleveland Cubs
- Cleveland Elites
- Cleveland Hornets
- Cleveland Red Sox
- Cleveland Tate Stars
- Cleveland Tigers
- Columbus Elite Giants
- Columbus Blue Birds
- Dayton Marcos
- Toledo Crawfords
- Toledo Rays
- Toledo Tigers
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- Harrisburg Giants
- Harrisburg Monrovians
- Hilldale Daisies
- Homestead Grays
- Philadelphia Pythians
- Philadelphia Giants
- Philadelphia Stars
- Philadelphia Tigers
- Pittsburgh Crawfords
- Pittsburgh Keystones
Tennessee
- Chattanooga Black Lookouts
- Chattanooga Choo-Choos
- Memphis Red Sox
- Nashville Elite Giants
- Tennessee Rats
Texas
- Austin Black Senators
- Houston Eagles
- Mineola Black Spiders
- San Antonio Black Bronchos
- San Antonio Black Indians
Washington
- Seattle Steelheads
Wisconsin
Traveling teams
- All Cubans
- All Nations
- Chappie Johnson's Stars, led by George Chappie Johnson (1876–1949)
- Colored House of David
- Cuban Stars (East)
- Cuban Stars (West)
- Ethiopian Clowns
External links
Negro league baseball Negro National
League (1920–1931)Birmingham Black Barons57 · Chicago American Giants567 · Chicago Giants · Cleveland Browns · Cleveland Cubs · Cleveland Elite Giants · Cleveland Hornets · Cleveland Tate Stars · Cleveland Tigers · Columbus Buckeyes · Cuban Stars (West)4 · Dayton Marcos · Detroit Stars67 · Indianapolis ABCs57 · Kansas City Monarchs7 · Louisville White Sox5 · Memphis Red Sox57 · Milwaukee Bears · Nashville Elite Giants5 · Pittsburgh Keystones · St. Louis Giants · St. Louis Stars7 · Toledo TigersEastern Colored
League (1923–1928)Bacharach Giants36 · Baltimore Black Sox346 · Brooklyn Royal Giants · Cuban Stars (East)3 · Harrisburg Giants · Hilldale Club34 · Homestead Grays346 · Lincoln Giants3 · Newark Stars · Washington PotomacsAmerican Negro
League (1929)Bacharach Giants26 · Baltimore Black Sox246 · Cuban Stars (East)2 · Hilldale Club24 · Homestead Grays246 · Lincoln Giants2East-West
League (1932)Baltimore Black Sox236 · Cleveland Stars · Cuban Stars (West)1 · Detroit Wolves · Hilldale Club23 · Homestead Grays236 · Newark Browns · Washington PilotsNegro Southern
League (1932)Birmingham Black Barons17 · Chattanooga Black Lookouts · Chattanooga Choo-Choos · Chicago American Giants167 · Indianapolis ABCs17 · Knoxville Giants · Louisville White Sox1 · Memphis Red Sox17 · Monroe Monarchs · Montgomery Grey Sox · Nashville Elite Giants12nd Negro National
League (1933–1948)Bacharach Giants23 · Baltimore Black Sox234 · Baltimore Elite Giants7 · Chicago American Giants157 · Cleveland Red Sox · Columbus Blue Birds · Detroit Stars17 · Homestead Grays234 · New York Black Yankees · New York Cubans7 · Newark Eagles7 · Philadelphia Stars7 · Pittsburgh Crawfords · Washington Black SenatorsNegro American
League (1937–1950s)Atlanta Black Crackers · Baltimore Elite Giants6 · Birmingham Black Barons15 · Chicago American Giants156 · Cincinnati Tigers · Cleveland Buckeyes · Cleveland Giants · Detroit Stars16 · Houston Eagles6 · Indianapolis ABCs15 · Indianapolis Athletics · Indianapolis Clowns · Indianapolis Crawfords · Jacksonville Red Caps · Kansas City Monarchs1 · Louisville Buckeyes · Memphis Red Sox15 · New Orleans Crescent Stars · New York Cubans6 · Philadelphia Stars6 · St. Louis Stars1Independent
teams (pre-1920)Independent
teams (post-1920)Bismarck Churchills · Boston Royal Giants · Brooklyn Bushwicks · Ethiopian Clowns · Gilkerson's Union Giants · Globe Trotters · Illinois Giants · Jamestown Red Sox · Mineola Black Spiders · Mobile Black Bears · Philadelphia Tigers · Seattle Steelheads · Zulu Cannibal GiantsCategory · Negro League World Series · East-West All-Star Game · Museum · Color line · List of teams by state · List of players · First black players in MLB
NOTE: All teams that played in an organized league listed above also played as an independent or barnstorming team before, during, and/or after joining a league.
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