Barnstorming (sports)
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In athletics terminology, barnstorming refers to sports teams or individual athletes who travel to various locations, usually small towns, to stage exhibition matches. The term is primarily used in th
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth pose with locals during their barnstorming tour in Kinsley Park, Providence, Rhode Island, October 10, 1927.
A 1947 newspaper advertisement for a Harlem Globetrotters game against a team of locals in Heppner, Oregon
Indianapolis Clowns
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The Indianapolis Clowns were a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. Tracing their origins back to the 1930s, the Clowns were the last of the Negro league teams to disband, continui
Barnstorming (sports)
…House of David, a baseball team that toured rural United States from the 1920s until the 1950s Indianapolis Clowns (original) Iowa Colored Cowboys…
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Statues of Toni Stone, Hank Aaron, and Mamie Johnson in the Riley Children's Health Sports Legends Experience at the Indianapolis Children's Museum.