Negro leagues -- History

Scope and Contents The Negro Leagues Pennant Collection consists of eleven felt pennants for African American baseball teams that played in the organized Negro Leagues during the 1930s and 1940s. The teams represented in the collection are the Homestead Grays, two examples, with one version spelled as “Greys”, the New York Black Yankees, the New York Cuban Stars, the Baltimore Elite Giants, the Newark Eagles, and the Philadelphia Stars. The pennants contain no information about their origin or date of...

Content Description This collection contains papers and correspondence gathered by Richard Powell in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Powell was an executive with the Baltimore Elite Giants, an African American professional baseball team. The Elite Giants played in the Negro National League from 1933-1948 and the Negro American League in 1949-1950. Powell's correspondence includes letters from opposing teams trying to schedule games and letters from teams in Major League Baseball and Minor League baseball...