The Philadelphia Tigers were a Negro league baseball team that played briefly in the 1928 Eastern Colored League (ECL) before the circuit disbanded in early June. The Tigers, organized by Smittie Lucas, featured a few well-known east coast players, such as Bill Yancey, George Johnson, and McKinley Downs, but no real stars.
| Philadelphia Tigers | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| League | Eastern Colored League (1928) |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Ballpark | Pencoyd Field |
| Established | 1928 |
| Disbanded | 1928 |
They played at Pencoyd Field,[1] which was near Wissahickon station in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia[2] at 40°0′53″N 75°12′29″W / 40.01472°N 75.20806°W.[3]
After the ECL fell apart, the Tigers struggled on as a marginal independent team into July before disbanding.
References
edit- ^ Ashwill, Gary. "1928 Season Eastern Colored League". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ Gordon, Patrick (November 18, 2022). "Murder, drama, and the story of the 1928 Philadelphia Tigers in the Eastern Colored League". Philadelphia Baseball Review. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ "[Aerial Survey of the Philadelphia Region], 1928 (circa) - Plate 53". www.philageohistory.org. Retrieved 2023-08-10. The field is southwest of the intersection of Ridge Avenue and Wissahickon Avenue (now Lincoln Drive).
- The Negro Leagues Book edited by Dick Clark & Larry Lester {1994} Publisher: The Society for American Baseball Research (Cleveland OH) ISBN 0-910137-55-2
- The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues by James A. Riley {1994} Publisher: Carroll & Graf (New York NY) ISBN 0-7867-0959-6
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