The Cleveland Giants were a Negro league baseball team. The team played for one year, 1933. Their home games were contested at Cleveland 's Luna Bowl in Luna Park .
4-577: In 1933, the struggling Columbus Blue Birds of the Negro National League dropped out and were replaced by the Cleveland Giants. The club went 22-28 in their first and only year. Bingo DeMoss managed the team, which included Bill Byrd (5-6), Wilson Redus (.325), SS Leroy Morney (.467) and OF Jabbo Andrews . Andrews was third in the NNL with 13 homers and third with a .412 average. Morney split
8-526: The Columbus Red Birds , the top-level minor league baseball team that played in the American Association from 1931 through 1954. Columbus was an associate team to the first Negro National League in 1931. The Blue Birds, which were one of the five founder members of the second incarnation of the Negro National League , were organized under the ownership of WJ Peebles of Columbus. Peebles
12-650: The year with the Baltimore Black Sox and led the circuit in batting average. This article about a baseball team in Ohio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Negro league baseball team article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Columbus Blue Birds The Columbus Blue Birds were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Columbus, Ohio in 1931 and 1933. Their name appears to have been derived from that of
16-504: Was reported to have built up "a formidable aggregation" and one that was fast growing in favor in the capital city. Several players, who formerly wore the colors of the Homestead Grays and Kansas City Monarchs had been added to the Birds' roster for their first season. Columbus started the season well, but proved too weak and finished the first half of the split season in last place of
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