Top 15 Negro League Teams
#8: Philadelphia Stars
League Affiliation:
Negro National League
Negro American League
Established: 1933
Folded: 1952
Based in: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
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| 1940 Philadelphia Stars |
The
Philadelphia Stars were founded as an independent team in 1933 by former Negro
League player Ed Bolden. In their lone year as an independent, the Stars played
only two games against other Black teams. The rest of their games were against
white semi-pro teams.
They joined the Negro National
League in 1934, and won the second half of the regular season with an 11-4
record. They qualified for the NNL Championship series against the Chicago
American Giants.
The two teams were tied at three
games a piece when the seventh game ended in a 4-4 tie, necessitating an eighth
game to determine the champion. The Stars won the game 2-0 to claim the
championship. But the American Giants launched a protest, arguing that Stars’
third baseman Jud Wilson should have been ejected from Game 6 for hitting an
umpire but wasn’t. They then protested that two of the games were played at
night and it affected their play. The Stars counter-protested by claiming the
Giants were using ineligible players. However, all protests were rejected and
the Stars were the champions.
The Stars never won another
championship with fourth place being their best finish. When the NNL folded
after the 1948 season, the Stars joined the Negro American League but didn’t
have much success. The team played in the NAL for three years and disbanded
after 1952.
Notable Stars’ players included:
Turkey Stearnes, Satchel Paige and Biz Mackey.
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