Birmingham Black Barons (NAL), 4 games to 1. Edition. As the 2013 World Series gets underway this week between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals, I thought we would look back at the very first Negro Leagues fall classic between the Kansas City Monarchs (55–22) and the Hilldale Daisies (47–23). January 05, 2013 1947 Negro World Series, Cleveland Buckeyes, Death, Negro Leagues, Obituary, Ross Davis, Ross Satchel Davis, Satchel Davis, World War II No comments I had the opportunity to speak with Ross "Satchel" Davis in 2008 for an hour about baseball. The Homestead Grays beat the Birmingham Black Barons to win the 1948 Negro World Series. 1944 Negro World Series. Several of the combatants in the 1947 Series would go … But for the Negro Leagues, it was 1948. For breath-taking World Series moments, the last Negro League World Series ranks up there among the very best. The Grays won the series again, four games to one. Another interesting aspect of Negro World Series play was the use of the “loaner.” With small team sizes, injuries, and in the 1940s, the Second World War, teams frequently went into postseason play with short rosters. There was only one more Negro League World Series, with the Homestead Grays defeating the Birmingham Black Barons to win the final Series in 1948. Negro League baseball players Luke Easter of the Homestead Grays and Josh Gibson, courtesy of the Scurlock Studio Collection, Archives Center. Specs. The 1944 Negro League World Series was a rematch of the 1943 World Series between the Homestead Grays (HOM) of the Negro National League and the Birmingham Black Barons (BIR) of the Negro American League. The NNL and Homestead Grays went out as champions. Well, for MLB, we need to go all the way back to 1924. Paige was the first African American to pitch in a major league World Series, a feat accomplished in ’48 while with the series-winning Indians. They remained the only postseason games held between the… 1948 Negro League World Series: Homestead Grays (NNL) def. They also won the championship in 1943 and 1944. In the 1944 Negro World Series, the Washington Homestead Grays, champions of the Negro National League were matched against the Birmingham Black Barons, champions of the Negro American League, for the second year in a row. Negro League Baseball Collection. The sport’s health seemingly stronger than ever, an estimated 3 million fans turned out to watch Negro League teams play in 1942, with its World Series revived that September. Collection. Birmingham Black Barons (NAL), 4 games to 1. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. Back in the 1920s, the two primary Negro Leagues, the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League champions had met in a set of games called the Negro World Series. The Monarchs and Daisies line up before Game 1 of the 1924 Negro League World Series. The 1948 season was the final season for the Negro National League and, hence, the Negro League World Series. 100 years later, Negro Leagues legacies still emerging. 1944 Negro League World Series: Homestead Grays (NNL) def. Tag Archives | negro world series. The ECL collapsed during the 1928 season, thus bring the postseason games to a close. By Kevin Reichard on October 20, 2020 in At the Ballpark. It was at least somewhat common for teams that weren’t going to make the Series to “loan” a player to a playoff team. In Game 1 of the 1954 Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians, the score was tied 2-2 in the top of the eighth inning. Negro World Series by Julian Madyun is a photographic poster of an ad for the 1942 Negro World Series at Yankee Stadium. When was the last time a professional baseball team from Washington, DC, won a World Series? The Negro National League folded shortly thereafter.