Homestead Grays (1912-1951)
May 14, 2025
The Homestead Grays are one of the best known teams to have played in the Negro Leagues, though they were an independent team for much of their existence.
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Seattle Steelheads
April 21, 2025
The Seattle Steelheads were members of the West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) in that circuit’s only season, 1946. The team was actually the Harlem Globetrotters baseball club and returned to barnstorming when the WCNBA ceased operations.
Kansas City Monarchs (1920-1965)
April 15, 2025
The Kanas City Monarchs are perhaps the best known Negro Leagues baseball team of all time. They played from the inception of the first Negro league in 1920 until finishing up as a barnstorming team in 1965.
San Francisco Sea Lions (WCNBA)
March 29, 2025
The San Francisco Sea Lions were members of the West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) in that circuit’s only season, 1946. After the WCNBA folded, the Sea Lions continued on as a barnstorming team until the spring of 1949.
Key West Cubs
April 18, 2016
The 1975 Key West Cubs marked the final summer of pro baseball in America’s southernmost outpost. The Chicago Cubs stocked their Florida State League farm club with a bumper crop of pitching talent including future Major League standouts Mike Krukow, Dennis Lamp and Donnie Moore and 2006 Hall-of-Fame inductee Bruce Sutter. Nevertheless, Key West finished dead last with a dreadful 37-94 record and the club moved to Pompano Beach in 1976.