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The Boston Royal Giants was a Negro League baseball team in Boston. The team was also known as the Boston Giants, Quaker Giants, Philadelphia Giants and Boston Colored Giants. The Royal Giants served as a farm team of sorts for the league. They played as far north as Canada’s Cape Breton League, and games against mill or industrial teams in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Part of the History of baseball series. ...
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History of the team
Black baseball in Boston started in the 1870s, when the City League formed teams of men. Though the Boston Giants were never among the most nationally popular black semi-pro teams, Boston was a hotbed of black baseball in the 1930s and 1940s.
In 1923, Negro League veteran Danny McClellan organized a team that had been playing as the Quaker Giants into a Boston-based contingent called, for marketing purposes, the Philadelphia Giants. Black sports teams often named themselves after cities that would immediately identify them as African American to white fans and media (such as the Harlem Globetrotters, who were founded in Chicago).
The Boston Royal Giants sometimes played in Boston’s famed Park League. Venues that hosted the Giants were often small public parks such as Cambridge’s Playstead Park and Boston’s Lincoln Park, but Braves Field (now Boston University's Nickerson Field) rented to African American owners as early as 1938, and Fenway Park was used for heavily-promoted games after 1945.
By 1945, pressure on Boston’s major league teams to sign black players mounted, including pickets and boycotts, Fenway tryouts for young Jackie Robinson and Marvin Williams and a threat from City Councilman Isadore Muchnick to revoke the Red Sox’ license to play Sunday baseball unless they integrated their roster.
When Red Sox icon Ted Williams gave his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech in 1966, he lamented the fact that great Negro Leaguers were not represented in Cooperstown. This sparked an interest in black baseball, and committees to enshrine and recognize its legends. It is unfortunate for Red Sox Nation that Williams never teamed with some of the luminaries that were right under Mr. Yawkey’s nose, particularly the ageless Will Jackman.
On July 13, 2002 the Boston Red Sox dressed in 1948 Boston Royal Giants unforms to honor the Negro league. The shirts were modeled after a uniform Herb Holmes’ great-grandson found in a foot locker.
Significant players Players included Texan sidearm pitcher Will "Cannonball" Jackman and catcher Burlin White. Over the 1920’s Giants came and went, and the team adopted the names Boston (Colored) Giants and Boston Royal Giants, but Jackman and White were mainstays. Jackman threw a blazing fastball that dropped as it approached the plate — legendary New York Giants manager John McGraw coveted him so that he called Jackman a great pitcher and hitter who would help bring a pennant to any major league team, but for his complexion. Negro League superstar Bill Yancey, later a Yankees scout, said Jackman was the greatest all-around ballplayer he ever saw. According to James A. Riley’s "Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Leagues," Jackman was "52-2 one season with the Giants and bested Satchel Paige twice in two outings."
Known Players - Herbert "Chink" Holmes
- Gene Benson
- Pud Flournoy
- Frannie Matthews
- Will Jackman
- Burlin White
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