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The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew Rube Foster. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Charter members of Fosters Negro National League, the American Giants won five pennants in that league, along with another pennant in the 1932 Negro Southern League and a second-half championship in Gus Greenlees Negro National League in 1934. The team was disbanded in 1952. In 1910, Foster, captain of the Chicago Leland Giants, wrested legal control of the name Leland Giants away from the teams owner, Frank Leland. That season, featuring Hall of Fame shortstop John Henry Lloyd, outfielder Pete Hill, second baseman Grant Johnson, catcher Bruce Petway, and pitcher Frank Wickware, the Leland Giants reportedly won 123 games while losing only 6. In 1911, Foster renamed the club the American Giants.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:01:23 +0000

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