Philadelphia Stars (baseball)
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The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro league baseball team from Philadelphia. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden returned to professional black baseball after being idle since early 1930. The Stars were an independent ball club in 1933, a member of the Negro National League from 1934 until the League's collapse following the 1948 season, and affiliated with the Negro American League from 1949 to 1952.
Philadelphia Stars (baseball)
1933 Philadelphia Stars postcard
"African American Baseball in Philadelphia", Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, (1998) at Belmont and Parkside Avenues, Philadelphia, PA 19131.
Ed Bolden
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Edward Bolden was an American baseball executive and owner in the Negro leagues.
Ed Bolden
"Ed. Bolden's Phila. Stars" in 1938 with Bolden in middle