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The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants

The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants

Kern, Thomas
Nowlin, Bill
Bush, Frederick

Paperback

Series: Champions of Black Baseball

Biographies GeneralBaseball & Softball

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1960819259
ISBN13: 9781960819253
Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
Published: May 15 2024
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This book on the 1939 Negro National League II champion Baltimore Elite Giants is part of a series of SABR books about the great Negro League teams of the first half of the twentieth century.


The Giants were first formed in Nashville in 1921, but moved around from location to location over the years - Columbus and Washington, DC, became way stations for team founder Tom Wilson as he moved the team in search of a sizable and stable fan base that Nashville's Black population did not offer. Eventually, in 1938, after a poor showing in Washington, he found what he was looking for - a receptive environment for his Elites - and moved the team one more time, to Baltimore, less than 50 miles up the road. The following year, 1939, the Baltimore Elite Giants struck pay dirt and won the Negro National League championship in a four-team playoff, besting first the Newark Eagles and then the juggernaut Homestead Grays. They remained in Baltimore for the duration of their existence, until the team folded in 1950.

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