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unusual facts about Negro Southern League


Sam Holmes

(December 11, 1915 - November 8, 2010) played in the Negro Leagues for the Monroe Monarchs (though it is assumed he played for them after they left the major Negro Southern League following 1932) and Denver White Elephants, a semi-professional team.


Birmingham Black Barons

Drawing largely from a successful American Cast Iron Pipe Company Industrial League team, the Black Barons were organized in 1920 for the inaugural season of Rube Foster's Negro Southern League, which operated mainly as a minor league.


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African Americans in Atlanta

From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Atlanta Black Crackers, a baseball team in the Negro Southern League, and later on, in the Negro American League, entertained sports fans at Ponce de Leon Park; some of the members of the Black Crackers would become players in Major League Baseball following the integration of the Negro Leagues into the larger leagues.