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    1923: Browns vs. Ddetroit Stars

    Has anyone ever read much about the post-season exhibition series between the Browns and the Negro League Detroit Stars? I found a passing reference to it in the Sporting News but no real info was available in the baseball bible.
    The Stars apparently won two of the three games. John Holway has some line score/box score info in his Complete Book of the Negro Leagues.

    I was curious as to how the series came about, if anyone knows.
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    Originally posted by disgrig View Post
    Has anyone ever read much about the post-season exhibition series between the Browns and the Negro League Detroit Stars? I found a passing reference to it in the Sporting News but no real info was available in the baseball bible.
    The Stars apparently won two of the three games. John Holway has some line score/box score info in his Complete Book of the Negro Leagues.

    I was curious as to how the series came about, if anyone knows.
    Don't know if this is of any help, but worth checking out.

    Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars
    http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvP7qzKdJ9MC&dq=st+louis+browns+and+the+negro+league+detroit+stars&pg=PP1&ots=qPKHjtQsha&source=citation&sig=Sg2V56yF7W_QNySXElBHaFMoJcA&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS258&q=St.+Louis+Browns+and+the+Negro+League+Detroit+Stars&btnG=Google+Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1&cad=bottom-3results#PPA19,M1
    In recalling the early part of thiscentury in baseball history, casualfans tend to glorify legends like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. While these remarkable players dazzled fans and grabbed headlines, black players who were every bit as good went unnoticed outside the Negro leagues. Because a "gentleman's agreement" among the white owners of organized baseball banned blacks from the major and minor leagues from the 1880s through 1946, the Negro National League provided black players the sole opportunity to display theirtalent. In Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars, Richard Bak documents the extraordinary history of Detroit's first and foremost black professional baseball team. This groundbreaking analysis of Detroit's entry in the Negro National League brings to life a fascinating story of skill, pride, and perseverance.As a charter member of Andrew "Rube" Foster's National Negro League, the Detroit Stars quickly evolved into an integral part of black culture. From the team's beginning in1919 to its demise in 1933, the Stars offered Detroit's black community entertainment and a short respite from the hardships of daily life.Moreover, the Detroit Stars represented a rare example of successful black entrepreneurship. The greatest Star of them all was Norman "Turkey" Stearnes, the brilliant longball-hitting center fielder. Stearnes established virtually all of the team's individual and career records during his nineseasons with Detroit.

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    • #3
      Leo D,
      That's a big help. Thanks.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by disgrig View Post
        Leo D,
        That's a big help. Thanks.
        Glad to be of help.

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          a "gentleman's" agreement........
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          you can take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn, but you can't take the Brooklyn out of the DODGERS
          http://brooklyndodgermemories.freeforums.org/

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            I guess Oct. 1923 was a good time for inter-racial baseball contests. The St. Louis Stars hosted a three game series with a team of white major league all-stars. St. Louis won two out of the three games.

            On Oct. 24, the Hilldale Club defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 3-1. I don't if there was more than one game between the Philadelphia teams or not. I found reference to only the one.

            According to Richard Bak in his book, Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars, Judge Landis did not approve of these post-season series between Negro League teams and white major leaguers playing as intact teams. After this the practice became that teams of white all-stars would take on Negro Leaguers.

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