1949 Baltimore Elite Giants season
Negro American League team season
1949 Baltimore Elite Giants | ||||
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League | Negro American League | |||
Ballpark | Bugle Field | |||
City | Baltimore | |||
League place | 1st | |||
Owners | Vernon Green | |||
Managers | Hoss Walker, Lennie Pearson | |||
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The 1949 Baltimore Elite Giants baseball team represented the Baltimore Elite Giants in the Negro American League (NAL) during the 1949 baseball season. The team won the NAL pennant.[1] Hoss Walker and Lennie Pearson were the team's managers.[2][3] The team's owner, Vernon Green, died of a heart attack in late May 1949.[4] The team played its home games at Bugle Field in Baltimore.[1]
Players included
- Harry Bayliss
- Joe Black
- Pee Wee Butts
- Bill Byrd
- John Davidson
- Butch Davis
- Leon Day
- Leroy Ferrell
- Junior Gilliam
- Vic Harris
- Johnny Hayes
- Henry Kimbro
- Lester Lockett
- Butch McCord
- Lennie Pearson
- Frazier Robinson
- Sylvester Rogers
- Bob Romby
- Frank Russell
- Hoss Walker
- Alfred Wilmore
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References
- ^ a b c Bob Luke (2009). The Baltimore Elite Giants. JHU Press. ISBN 0801891167.
- ^ a b "Elite Giants To Play Today". The Baltimore Sun. May 1, 1949. p. Sports 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Frazier Robinson (1999). Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Syracuse University Press. p. 150.
- ^ "Green, Elite Owner, Dies". The Baltimore Sun. May 28, 1949 – via Newspapers.com.
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Nashville / Baltimore Elite Giants
- Operated: 1919–1951
Also known as: Nashville Standard Giants - Columbus Elite Giants
- Washington Elite Giants
Based in: Nashville, Tennessee - Columbus, Ohio
- Washington, D.C.
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Nashville: Sulphur Dell
- Greenwood Park
- Tom Wilson Park
Columbus: Red Bird Stadium
Baltimore: Bugle Field - Oriole Park
- Memorial Stadium
- Westport Park
- Negro Southern League: 1921
- 1922
- 1929
- 1931
Negro National League: 1939
Negro American League: 1949
appearances
- 1932
- 1948
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