Cuban Giants
American baseball team
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baseball history
- In baseball: Segregation
…exhibition game against the all-Black Cuban Giants. The night before the scheduled game, eight members of the Browns handed a message to the team’s owner that read: "[We] do not agree to play against Negroes tomorrow. We will cheerfully play against white people at any time."
Read More - In Latin Americans in Major League Baseball Through the First Years of the 21st Century: Early history
…Argyle Hotel, was called the Cuban Giants, though not a single player on the team was Cuban. They were all African Americans styling themselves as Cubans, obviously mimicking Cuban teams in the New York and New Jersey area at the time. The Cuban Giants thrived when they moved to Trenton,…
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