Brooklyn Royal Giants
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Location | Brooklyn, New York |
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Established | 1905 |
Disbanded | 1942 |
The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional
League play
In 1907, the Brooklyn Royal Giants joined the National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs of the United States and Cuba.[4] The league lasted three seasons and included the teams Philadelphia Giants, Cuban X-Giants, Cuban Stars of Havana, and the Cuban Giants of New York.
During the 1920s, under the ownership of
Final years and demise
The Giants played a pair of games against teams featuring Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.[5] On October 11, 1926, the Giants took on a squad featuring Babe Ruth in Bradley Beach, New Jersey. The Giants won this game 3-1. Following this, in 1928, the Giants played a combined team of the Bustin' Babes (Ruth's barnstorming squad) and the Larrupin' Lous (Gehrig's barnstorming squad) in Asbury Park, New Jersey. 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, and in the early 1940s it had fallen to a semi-professional status. The team disbanded in 1942.
Significant players
- Smokey Joe Williams – elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
- John Henry "Pop" Lloyd – elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Louis Santop – elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
- "Cannonball" Dick Redding
- Frank Wickware
- Charles "Chino" Smith
Notes and references
- ^ John Wilson Connor's surname was sometimes spelled "Connors."
General
- Riley, James A. (1994). "Brooklyn Royal Giants". The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Carroll & Graf. pp. 111–12. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6., Team profiles at Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. – identical to Riley (confirmed 2010-04-16)
- (Riley.) Brooklyn Royal Giants
Inline citations
- ^ Ashwill, Gary. "Brooklyn Royal Giants". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- New York Age, July 17, 1926, front page (accessible via Newspapers.com; subscription required)
- ISBN 0-8038-2007-0.
- ^ "Colored Baseball Men Organize Association" The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, MT, Sunday Morning, November 11, 1906, Page 2, Column 7
- ^ "Babe Ruth part of rich baseball history at Jersey Shore". Asbury Park Press. Retrieved 2016-04-29.