Posey Rates these Negro Baseball Teams Among Greatest of All Time newspaper clipping

Datecirca 1940

DescriptionA newspaper clipping titled "Posey Rates these Negro Baseball Teams Among Greatest of All Time" that has been glued to a piece of tan paper. Posey (possibly Cum Posey) has listed eight teams: 1913 Lincoln Giants, 1913 American Giants, 1923-1925 Hilldale, 1929 Baltimore, 1916 American Giants, 1930 St. Louis Stars, 1924 Kansas City Monarchs, and 1931 Homestead Grays. Handwriting above and below the article read "Negroes in Majors" and "1940". The roster of each team is listed underneath the team name and year.

Object numberBL-1997-00571-008

Attributes

Classificationsmanuscripts (documents)

Collection NumberBA MSS 001 Wendell Smith papers

Dimensions8 x 11 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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