Top 15 Negro League Teams
#6: St. Louis Stars
League Affiliation:
Negro National League
Established: 1906
Folded: 1931
Based in: St.
Louis, Missouri
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| 1928 St Louis Stars |
In the first year of the NNL,
St. Louis finished sixth with a record of 25 wins and 32 losses. They improved
to 40-28 in 1921, good enough for second place. However, the team ceased
operations and began anew as the St. Louis Stars for 1922. Almost all of the
players from the Giants now played for the “new” St. Louis team.
They didn’t play well for the
next few years (a fourth place in 1922 was followed by sixth in 1923), but in
1924, the Stars started to display championship-calibre teams. In 1925, they
won the second-half title but dropped the championship series to the Kansas
City Monarchs. Three years later, in 1928, the Stars would win the NNL
Championship by defeating the Chicago American Giants five games to four in the
best-of-nine Series.
They would win again in 1930 and
be declared the champion in 1931, as they were in first place when the league
folded half-way through the season. A new Negro National League was started in
1933, but the Stars ceased operations prior to the arrival of the new league.
Notable players included: Coop
Papa Bell, Willie Wells and Mule Suttles.
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