The 1905 Philadelphia Giants are mostly forgotten, but they were one of baseball’s great teams. Their 1905 roster was stacked — featuring Hall of Famers Pete Hill, Rube Foster, Frank Grant, John Henry Lloyd and more.
Negro League baseball history is like dinosaur fossils. Unless it’s preserved, over time it fades away.
Manager and Negro League player Sol White teamed with Harry Smith and H. Walter Schlichter in 1902 to found the Giants. Smith was the sports editor for the Philadelphia Tribune and Schlichter was the sports editor of the Philadelphia Evening News Item.Negro League Baseball Players Association website,
“Dan McClellan should be in the Hall of Fame,” Dixon said. “I could make a good argument for Mike Moore. Bill Monroe was like the Deion Sanders of his time. Without question, the greatest third baseman of his generation.” The Cuban X Giants, another Black squad, played on June 5, 1905 against the major-league Brooklyn Superbas and won, 7-2. The closest the Philadelphia Giants got to playing a major-league team was when they played a Newark minor-league team that Dixon called the equivalent of a triple-A team today. The Giants won all four meetings.
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