Brooklyn Royal Giants

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 Redding

Frank Wickware

Charles "Chino" Smith

John Henry "Pop" Lloyd

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. During the 1920s, under the ownership of Nat Strong, a white New York City booking agent, the team fell into somewhat of a decline, and did very poorly while in Eastern 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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