Philadelphia Tigers
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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.
They played at Pencoyd Field,[1] which was near Wissahickon station in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia[2] at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"..[3]
After the ECL fell apart, the Tigers struggled on as a marginal independent team into July before disbanding.
References
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- The Negro Leagues Book edited by Dick Clark & Larry Lester {1994} Publisher: The Society for American Baseball Research (Cleveland OH) Template:ISBN
- The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues by James A. Riley {1994} Publisher: Carroll & Graf (New York NY) Template:ISBN
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