- Brooklyn Royal Giants
Negro League franchise
Name=Brooklyn Royal Giants
Leagues=Independent (1910-1922, 1928-1942)Eastern Colored League (1923-1927)
Significant_Players=Smokey Joe Williams
"Cannonball" Dick ReddingFrank Wickware
Charles "Chino" Smith
John Henry "Pop" LloydThe Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional
baseball team based in Brooklyn,New York which played in theNegro Leagues . They were one of the premier professional teams beforeWorld War I , winning multiple championships in the East. During the 1920s, under the ownership ofNat Strong , a whiteNew York City booking agent, the team fell into somewhat of a decline, and did very poorly while inEastern Colored League . The Giants played their home games while part of the Eastern Colored League at Dexter Park in Queens.The Giants returned to independent play in 1928 and rebuilt the roster, but the quality of the rebuilt team never matched that of the early years. By the mid-1930s, the quality was no better than that of a minor league team in the early 1940s the team had fallen to a semi-professional status. The team disbanded in 1942.
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