Negro league baseball
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The Negro leagues were professional baseball leagues primarily in the United States comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the
Octavius Catto, black baseball pioneer
Bud Fowler, the first professional black baseball player with one of his teams, Western of Keokuk, Iowa
Moses Fleetwood Walker, possibly the first African-American major league baseball player
Chicago Union Giants in 1905
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
Negro league baseball
…deteriorated; the Negro American League's 1951 season is generally considered the last Negro league season, although the last professional club, the Indianapolis Clowns, operated as a humorous sideshow rather than competitively from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced that based…
Cincinnati Clowns Pennant
Statues of Toni Stone, Hank Aaron, and Mamie Johnson in the Riley Children's Health Sports Legends Experience at the Indianapolis Children's Museum.