The Homestead Grays (also known as Washington Grays or Washington Homestead Grays) were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues in the United States.
The team was formed in 1912 by Cumberland Posey, and remained in continuous operation for 38 seasons. The team was originally based in Homestead, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh. By the 1920s, with increasing popularity in the Pittsburgh region, the team retained the name "Homestead" but crossed the Monongahela River to play all home games in Pittsburgh, at the Pittsburgh Pirates' home Forbes Field and the Pittsburgh Crawfords' home Greenlee Field.
From 1940 until 1942, the Grays played half of their home games in Washington, D.C., while remaining in Pittsburgh for all other home stands.[1] As attendance at their games in the nation's capital grew, by 1943, the Grays were playing more than two-thirds of their home games in Washington.[1]
^ abSnyder, Brad (2003). Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball, p. 155. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-007-1431-97-2.
The HomesteadGrays Bridge, also known as the (Homestead) High Level Bridge, was built in 1936 and spans the Monongahela River between Homestead Borough...
Gibson played for the HomesteadGrays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939...
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 HomesteadGrays were the winningest and most present team in the tournament, winning...
Washington HomesteadGrays, 4 games to 0 games 1943 – Washington HomesteadGrays beat Birmingham Black Barons, 4 games to 3 games 1944 – Washington Homestead Grays...
the Bacharach Giants. Graham went on to spend seven seasons with the HomesteadGrays, and finished his career with a short stint with the Pittsburgh Crawfords...
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...
time he had helped financially support the Negro league team, the HomesteadGrays, and . . . was a better baseball fan than football fan." Rooney also...
Carolina, he played for the HomesteadGrays between 1934 and 1950, batting fourth behind Josh Gibson for many years. The Grays teams of the 1930s and 1940s...
Giants of the Negro American League. He joined the HomesteadGrays in the NNL in 1943. The Grays won league championships in Bell's first two seasons...
the Grays withdrew to resume barnstorming, the Newark Eagles moved from New Jersey to Houston, Texas, and the New York Black Yankees folded. The Grays folded...
Negro league baseball. He played for the Baltimore Black Sox, the HomesteadGrays, and the Philadelphia Stars between 1922 and 1945. Wilson was known...
1925 Colored World Series. After serving as a player manager for the HomesteadGrays followed by the Daisies in the early 1930s, Johnson signed with the...
the 1942 season, the Monarchs met the Negro National League champion HomesteadGrays in the 1942 Negro World Series, the first Negro World Series between...
reestablished in 1926 to play for two seasons, serving as a farm team of the HomesteadGrays of the Negro Northern League. In 1926 the team purchased the contract...
Buckeyes played in two Negro World Series, defeating the Washington HomesteadGrays in 1945, and losing to the New York Cubans in 1947. They were based...
against their hometown rivals, the HomesteadGrays. Entering the game in the fourth inning, Paige held the Grays scoreless and had six strikeouts and...
Brooklyn Royal Giants for a season, then signed with the independent HomesteadGrays, where, except for a brief turn with the Detroit Wolves in 1932, he...
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