Tagged: negro-leagues

6 clippings tagged negro-leagues.

Advertisement headed Guaranteed Base Ball Supplies reading: Our Base Ball Goods are used and endorsed by the leading Professional and Amateur players. See our new line of Uniforms before deciding. Write or call for catalogue. Charles C. Carr Company. Factory, 30-36 E. Georgia St., Indianapolis. Salesroom, 38 S. Penna. St.

Guaranteed base ball supplies

The Freeman
Indianapolis, Indiana · 1914

Large studio portrait of Andrew Rube Foster seated in a bowler hat, dark suit and bow tie, one hand resting on a chair arm. The caption reads Andrew Rube Foster, Manager and Captain of the World's Colored Champions, the Leland Giants.

Andrew Rube Foster

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

Five newspaper photographs of Leland Giants players stacked in a column. John H. Loyd standing in a Lelands uniform, captioned Leland Giants' Star Second Baseman. Bruce Pettway standing with catcher's mitts in both hands, captioned The Peer of All Catchers. J. P. Hill posed batting, captioned Leland Giants' Center Fielder, considered the equal, if not the superior, of any man playing baseball. Andrew Payne standing with a glove, captioned The Wonder of the Outfield. James Booker stretched low to scoop a ball, captioned Star Catcher, Now Playing First Base for the Leland Giants, he is a star in any position.

First Annual Base Ball and Sporting Number

Leland Giants
Chicago, Illinois · 1910

Column item headed The Nashville All Stars, Said To Be Fastest Bunch in South: a letter to the editor of The Freeman challenging all baseball clubs willing to give a fair guarantee, describing a club composed of the cream of the Capitol City League, every man a born athlete, signed Nashville All Stars, Thomas R. Bryant, Pres. and Sec.

Said to be fastest bunch in South

Nashville All Stars
Nashville, Tennessee · 1914

Tall advertisement headed BASEBALL announcing the American Giants of Chicago, Rube Foster's great aggregation of Negro ball players, champions of the world, vs. all star teams of the Capital City League at Athletic Park September 15, 16 and 17, admission 25 cents, beside a Sporting News column previewing the series.

The greatest Negro ball team in the world

Chicago American Giants
Nashville, Tennessee · 1913

Column item reporting a base ball meeting in Kansas City that formed the Western Circuit of Negro Base Ball League, listing the Chicago American Giants, the Indianapolis A. B. C. Club, the Detroit Stars, the St. Louis Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs, with a booking agency handled by Andrew Rube Foster of Chicago and a first game to be played at Association Park.

Some of the biggest base ball men in the country

Kansas City Monarchs
Kansas City, Missouri · 1920