Cleveland Giants
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The Cleveland Giants were a Negro Leagues baseball team. The team played only one year, 1933.
In 1933, the struggling Columbus Blue Birds of the Negro National League dropped out and were replaced by the Cleveland Giants, which was practically the same team. Overall the club went 22-28 and did not continue after the year. Bingo DeMoss managed the team, which included Bill Byrd (5-6), Frog 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.
[edit] References
- This article is derived from the article of the same name in the Baseball Reference Bullpen, accessed November 29, 2006. It is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Holway, Johnm, The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues. ISBN 0803820070. The complete book is available for online viewing at Google Books.
- Riley, James, The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. ISBN 0786709596.
