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The Buckeyes were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1942 to 1950, mostly in Cleveland with League Park as their home field. The team played its first season in Cincinnati, and one season, 1949, in Louisville, before heading back to Cleveland for...

To a certain generation of Cleveland baseball fans, it will ALWAYS be The Jake!

The Kansas City Monarchs are probably the best-known Negro league baseball team in history, as well as the longest running. In 1942, they finished their season 27-12-0, and finished 2nd in Negro American League and ended up winning the 1942. Negro World Series. CHECKOUT OUR...

Hilldale Club was a Negro league baseball team based in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby. They played in three different leagues as well as independently and won three league titles as well a step 1925 Negro League World Series. *Produce is officially licensed by...

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, also known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team that played from 1931-1940. They were named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District. After playing in several different leagues,...

Braves Field opened as the home of the city's National League team in 1915, three years after Fenway Park. Indeed, the city's American League team played select games at Braves field due to the greater seating capacity.  In 1953, the Braves moves to Milwaukee....

Arlington Stadium??was the first home of baseball's Rangers after the moved from Washington, D.C. in 1972. In 1993, the team moved into the Ballpark in Arlington.

Formed in Lincoln, NE in 1911, and later based in New York City, the Giants were a barnstorming, Negro baseball team. From 1923 to 1928, they were members of the Eastern Colored League. In 1929, they joined the American Negro League for one season,...

The Portland Beavers were established in 1903 and through several iterations represented the city in the Pacific Coast League. The last team to use the name left Portland after the 2010 season when plans to build a baseball-only park for the team fell through.

The??Pittsburgh Keystones??was the name of two historic professional??Negro league baseball??teams that operated in 1887 and again in 1921 and 1922. The first team was a member of the first black baseball league in 1887, the??League of Colored Baseball Clubs. In 1921 and 1922, the...

The Hit King is No. 14, Pete Rose with 4,256. He also holds the record for games played at 3,562, at bats with 14,053, singles with 3,215, and outs with 10,328. He also has three World Series rings, three batting titles, an MVP Award,...

The Waikiki BeachBoys were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. Their name was derived from a group credited with popularizing the sport of surfing in Hawaii. Partially funded by MLB, the...

There's no doubt in our mind,??Johnny Bench??is the greatest catcher of all time. In his career, all of it spent with the Reds, he had??2,048,??a .267 career batting average with 389 homers,??and 1,376 RBIs. He is third on the career homeruns list for catchers,...

Chavez Ravine was chosen as the home of the relocated Dodgers in the late 1950s.

The 1927 New York, batting lineup, dubbed Murder's Row, featured some of the most fearsome hitters of all time.??

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, also known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team that played from 1931-1940. They were named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District. After playing in several different leagues,...

It was a miracle season for New York's senior circuit team. It's 25th, the campaign ended with a world championship, the franchises second.

Jackie Robinson best known for breaking the color barrier in the modern era of baseball, but fans of the sport also recognize his extra ordinary talent. After playing for the Negro American League's Kansas City Monarchs in 1945, he was signed by Brooklyn and...

On September 11, 1985, Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb's all-time record for most career hits.??His teammates mobbed him at home plate, while then Reds owner Marge Schott presented him with a red Corvette, driven in from behind the outfield fence. The sellout crowd of...

The Indianapolis Clowns a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. They came to Indianapolis in 1946 after stints in Cincinnati, Miami, and as a barnstorming team. They left the Negro American League in 1954 but continued to play exhibition games into the...

The Baltimore Terrapins??were one of the most successful teams in the short-lived Federal League??of professional baseball which operated in 1914 and 1915. It competed with the American and National League as a third major league.

Montreal Royals?? was the name of two minor league baseball teams that played in Quebec. The first incarnation of the the team played from 1897 until 1917. In 1928, the team was??resurrected and joined the International League. They are best remembered as the team...

Jimmy "Chicken" Wolf was a nineteenth century baseball player who played 11 seasons in the bigs. He played for his hometown Louisville Eclipse (later called the Colonels) as well as the St. Louis Browns.

It took some convincing, but in 1935 the Cincinnati Reds convinced Major League Baseball to allow night baseball in order to draw more fans.??President??Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting in the White House in Washington, D.C., threw the switch??that lit up Crosley Field on May 24,...

The Houston Buffaloes were founded in 1888 and played in various minor leagues throughout their 73-year history. In 1962, with the arrival of the major league Colt .45s, the Buffaloes moved to Oklahoma City and became the 89ers, a farm team of the Colt...

The first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame were indeed legendary.??

Built in 1912 as Redland Field, the Cincinnati Reds home ballpark was renamed Crosley Field, in honor of the team's new owner, in 1934. It was the home of the Reds until 1970 when they moved into Riverfront Stadium. One of the most iconic...

SkyDome opened in 1989 as the new home of Toronto's baseball and football teams. The city's basketball team played there from 1995 to 1999 while a new arena was being built downtown. The football team got the boot in 2015, leaving the baseball team...

The New York Black Yankees were a Negro baseball league team that played from 1931 to 1948. They played their home games primarily in Paterson, NJ, but also played games New York City. They played their final season in Rochester, NY.

The Metrodome, officially the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, opened in Minneapolis 1982, replacing Metropolitan Stadium in suburban Bloomington as the home of the city's pro baseball and pro football teams. The baseball team left after the 2009 season and moved into their own place....