Cleveland Giants

Cleveland Giants
Cleveland Giants
Information
League	Negro National League (II);
Location	Cleveland, Ohio
Ballpark	Luna Bowl;
Established	1933
Disbanded	1933
Nickname(s)	Columbus Blue Birds (first half of 1933 season); Akron Black Tyrites (briefly, mid-1933 season); Cleveland Giants (last part of 1933 season);

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.

History[edit]

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 the year with the Baltimore Black Sox and led the circuit in batting average.

References[edit]

^ Lowry, Philip J. (2006). Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro League Ballparks. New York: Walker Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 72–73. ISBN 0-8027-1562-1.

External links[edit]

Holway, John B. (2001). The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History. Fern Park, FL: Hastings House Publishers. ISBN 0-8038-2007-0.
Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.

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[1] Lowry, Philip J. (2006). Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro League Ballparks. New York: Walker Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 72–73. ISBN 0-8027-1562-1.

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