• The Homestead Grays (also known as Washington Grays or Washington Homestead Grays) were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues...
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    Josh Gibson (category Homestead Grays players)
    Gibson played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939...
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  • teams (Homestead Grays, Newark Eagles, Baltimore Elite Giants, Philadelphia Stars) were matched together in a best-of-five tournament. The Grays beat the...
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  • Hartfords, Louisville Grays, and St. Louis Brown Stockings folded. The Indianapolis Blues, Milwaukee Grays, and Providence Grays joined. The Indianapolis...
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  • teams compete for a championship and seven who won at least one. The Homestead Grays were the winningest and most present team in the tournament, winning...
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    The Homestead Grays Bridge, also known as the (Homestead) High Level Bridge, was built in 1936 and spans the Monongahela River between Homestead Borough...
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    Cumberland Posey (category Homestead Grays players)
    made the Grays a perennially powerful and profitable team, one of the best in the East. Posey began playing baseball for the semi-pro Grays in 1911. He...
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  • Look up grays, greys, Grays, or Greys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grays or Greys may refer to: Grays Bay, Nunavut, Canada Grays, Essex, a town...
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  • Washington Homestead Grays, 4 games to 0 games 1943 – Washington Homestead Grays beat Birmingham Black Barons, 4 games to 3 games 1944 – Washington Homestead Grays...
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  • This list of Homestead Grays seasons compiles games played by the Homestead Grays. Seasons in which the Grays were league members (or an associate team)...
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  • the league weakened Posey's Grays in their competition against Greenlee's Crawfords. Greenlee recruited a number of Grays star players, including Josh...
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  • Buck Leonard (category Homestead Grays players)
    Carolina, he played for the Homestead Grays between 1934 and 1950, batting fourth behind Josh Gibson for many years. The Grays teams of the 1930s and 1940s...
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    also because certain teams (notably the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays) sometimes played entirely independent of the leagues, votes were not...
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    Silas Simmons (category Homestead Grays players)
    the Blue Ribbons became a professional team and were renamed the Homestead Grays, a team that quickly became a Negro leagues powerhouse. In 1926, Simmons...
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  • Cool Papa Bell (category Homestead Grays players)
    Giants of the Negro American League. He joined the Homestead Grays in the NNL in 1943. The Grays won league championships in Bell's first two seasons...
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  • time he had helped financially support the Negro league team, the Homestead Grays, and . . . was a better baseball fan than football fan." Rooney also...
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  • of players on the Homestead Grays all-time roster. These are Homestead Grays players who appeared in at least one game for the Grays, while they were based...
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    Jud Wilson (category Homestead Grays players)
    Negro league baseball. He played for the Baltimore Black Sox, the Homestead Grays, and the Philadelphia Stars between 1922 and 1945. Wilson was known...
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    A. Williams supported the name "Washington Grays," in honor of the Negro-league team the Homestead Grays (1929–1950), which had been based in Pittsburgh...
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  • Dennis Graham (category Homestead Grays players)
    the Bacharach Giants. Graham went on to spend seven seasons with the Homestead Grays, and finished his career with a short stint with the Pittsburgh Crawfords...
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  • the 1942 season, the Monarchs met the Negro National League champion Homestead Grays in the 1942 Negro World Series, the first Negro World Series between...
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  • Josh Gibson Jr. (category Homestead Grays players)
    history. Gibson then joined his father's former team, the Homestead Grays, in 1949. Gibson was the Grays' regular second baseman by May, after manager Sam Bankhead...
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    A. Williams supported the name "Washington Grays", in honor of the Negro-league team the Homestead Grays (1929–1950), which had been based in Pittsburgh...
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  • Ray Brown (Negro leagues pitcher) (category Homestead Grays players)
    exclusively for the Homestead Grays. During his career, he was widely considered the best pitcher in the Negro leagues at the time, and led the Grays to eight pennants...
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  • reestablished in 1926 to play for two seasons, serving as a farm team of the Homestead Grays of the Negro Northern League. In 1926 the team purchased the contract...
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    Judy Johnson (category Homestead Grays players)
    1925 Colored World Series. After serving as a player manager for the Homestead Grays followed by the Daisies in the early 1930s, Johnson signed with the...
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    Ref(s) 1934 Slim Jones Philadelphia Stars NN2 1.24 20 164 1938 Ray Brown† Homestead Grays NN2 1.88 14 70 1943 Johnny Wright Homestead Grays NN2 2.54 18 94...
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    to the north, Homestead runs adjacent with the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Squirrel Hill South (direct connection via Homestead Grays Bridge) and Swisshelm...
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  • were informally known as the "Washington Homestead Grays." When baseball returned to Washington in 2005, "Grays" was one of the three finalists for the...
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  • Elite Giants". Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Retrieved 2013-02-16. "Homestead Grays". Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Retrieved 2013-02-16. "Jacksonville...
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