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The Detroit Stars were one of the original teams in the Negro National League, the first official Black baseball league founded in 1920. The team’s early years were led by Pete Hill, who took double responsibilities as both manager and outfielder. He was finally honored in 2006 with an induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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The longest-running Black barnstorming team was maybe best known as the Ethiopian Clowns, but before they took on that name, they were the Miami Giants.\u202fThe Clowns were baseball's answer to the Harlem Globetrotters. Players entertained the crowd with various comedic antics, including "shadowball", where they would go through a warm-up routine with no baseball. When the team joined the Negro American League, they dropped the "Ethiopian" moniker and played straight baseball.\xa0 \xa0 Their legacy ran throughout the country as both a barnstorming show team and baseball team, spending a brief period in Cincinnati before finally landing as the Indianapolis Clowns in 1946. While they embraced their showmanship style to varying degrees throughout history, their combination of show and straight baseball resulted in the organization being the last Negro League team to disband in the 1980s.\xa0 |
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