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The History Of Baseball
Negro League Local Players
Hipolito “Jhong” Rarangol Arenas, III, was born in 1907 in Tampa. He was a former player in Negro League Baseball.
Arenas grew up in Tampa and spent much of his time in Ybor City.
He went on to play for local and other teams. Are- nas played for the Atlanta Black Crackers from 1928 to 1929, and for the New York Cubans in 1930.
He died in 1995.
William Benjamin “Billy” Brown Felder
Carl Everett, Vance Lovelace, and Floyd Youmans while coaching at the Belmont Heights Little League.
Morris “Blizz” Everett
pitched for the Tampa Grays, Tampa Dodgers and the Bradenton Nine Devils. When Morris wasn’t pitch- ing he played 1st base. He played during the 1949 and 1985 season.
Clifford “Quack”
played short-
stop and sec-
ond base for
the Philadel-
phia Stars.
He is cred-
ited with playing 3 games in 3 different towns in Virginia on a single day. Brown hit a homerun in each game. He also coached and mentored such baseball notables Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield, Derek Bell,
played in- field for the Newark Ea- gles, the In- dianapolis
Clowns, and the Philadelphia Stars. He later became a Tampa business owner.
Bernardo Fernandez
was born on March 5, 1918. He played for the Atlanta Black Crackers, Jacksonville Red Caps, Philadelphia Stars,
History Of Negro League Baseball Teams
Negro National League
On Valentine’s Day, Febru- ary 14, 1920, African American Rube Foster and his partner, John Schorling, (who founded the Chicago American Giants in 1911), met in Kansas City, Missouri and joined with other team owners to form the Negro National League.
The eight teams included the Chicago Giants, Chicago American Giants, Kansas City Monarchs, Indianapolis ABCs, Dayton Marcos, St. Louis Gi- ants, Detroit Stars, and the Cuban Stars from New York.
A few months later, the Negro Southern League formed with teams from At- lanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, Jack- sonville, and Montgomery.
The league folded in 1932, two years after Foster devel- oped mental illness and died in 1930.
Eastern Colored League
The Eastern Colored League was formed on Decem- ber 16, 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Attracted by the success of the NNL, white busi- nessmen Nat Strong and Ed Bolden formed the ECL. Its teams included the Philadel- phia Hilldales, Baltimore Black Sox, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Atlantic City Bacharach Giants, and the New York Lincoln Gi- ants. This team lasted until 1928, when it folded.
First Negro League World Series Game
In the first Negro League World Series game in 1924, the Kansas City Monarchs and the Philadelphia Hilldales met on the diamond in Kansas City. The Monarchs won the series in ten games.
Rebirth Of Negro National Leagues
In 1932, shortly after the National Negro League folded, a group of African American players attempted to reestab- lish the league. They met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The new Negro National League was founded in 1933 by W. A. “Gus” Greenlee and lasted until 1948.
H. G. Hall founded the Negro American League in 1937. It lasted until 1960. These leagues emerged as the most important in the last years of segregated baseball.
The first Negro World Se- ries game (since 1927), was played in 1942. The Kansas City Monarchs (NAL), with Satchel Paige pitching, de- feated the Homestead (Pitts- burgh) Grays (NNL).
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