Top 15 Negro League Teams
#14: Baltimore Black Sox
League Affiliation: Eastern
Colored League
American Negro League
East-West League
Negro National League (ii)
Established: 1916
Folded: 1933
Based in: Baltimore,
MD
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| The 1929 Baltimore Black Sox |
The
Baltimore Black Sox started as an independent team in 1916 and were generally a
vagabond team playing in four different organized leagues from 1923-1933.
The played in the Eastern
Colored League from 1923-28, played one year in the American Negro League
(1929, which was the League’s only year of existence), became an independent
team again for a couple of years, played one year in the East-West League in
1932 and then one more in the newly formed Negro National League in 1933.
The one season in the American
Negro League produced a championship finish with their .646 winning percentage
based on their 53 wins and 29 losses. The season was divided into two halves
with the winner of each half playing in a postseason series. Since Baltimore
won both halves, they were declared League Champion. Their single season in the
NNL produced a 13-18 win/loss record and a last-place finish.
They were scheduled for another
season in the NNL in 1934 but when several players announced they were leaving
the team, the Black Sox application for the second season was rejected and the
team was disbanded.
The Baltimore Orioles have twice
honoured the memory of the Black Sox club. On September 7, 2007, they wore
throwback uniforms in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the
1932 season. On May 18, 2014, they wore them again as part of the Kansas City
Royals’ “Salute to the Negro Leagues.”
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