Homestead Grays
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The Homestead Grays were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues in the United States.
1931 Homestead Grays. Cumberland Posey Jr is standing at far left
Grays in 1947. From L to R: Dan Wilson, Luis Márquez, Matt "Lick" Carlisle, Sam Bankhead, Walter "Buck" Leonard
Griffith Stadium
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Griffith Stadium stood in Washington, D.C., from 1911 to 1965, between Georgia Avenue and 5th Street, and between W Street and Florida Avenue NW.
Homestead Grays
…However, during this same period the club adopted the Washington, D.C. area as its "home away from home" and scheduled many of its "home" games at D.C.'s Griffith Stadium, the home park of the Washington Senators. During these games, they were alternatively known as the Washington Grays or Washington Homestead Grays…
Griffith Stadium in 1960
1937 All Star managers
Right field seats and row houses with "bootleg bleachers" before the high fence was installed
The new left field grandstand (in foul territory), with a higher roof than the original