If you’re a baseball fan, you know about the Negro Leagues. These leagues gave Black players Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson and even Hank Aaron the ability to exercise their talents and passion back when it wasn’t acceptable to play with their white counterparts.
But you might not know about the most notable all-Black team that played in Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Tigers, who hit the field in the early '30s.
“The Tigers used the Reds home ballpark, Crosley Field, when the club was on the road," said Chris Eckes, chief curator at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. "It was not unusual for the Tigers to actually draw bigger crowds than the Reds did at the time.”
The Tigers wore old Reds uniforms and fed a community that could not see players of color on the field at Reds games.
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