Texas Colored League

Baseball league

Texas Colored League
TX–OK–LA League
Texas–Louisiana Negro LeagueClassification| Minor league

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Sport| Baseball
Founded| 1919
Ceased| 1931
Country| United States

The Texas Colored League was a minor league Negro baseball league organized in 1919 and lasted until 1926.[1] The league did not play a schedule in 1922.

The league was revived three years later in 1929 as the Texas–Oklahoma–Louisiana League[2][3] and renamed the Texas–Louisiana Negro League for the 1930 and 1931 seasons.[4]

## Teams

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### 1919–26

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Teams listed alphabetically by city for the 1919–21 and 1923–26 seasons. Some teams may be the same franchise with a different name or location.

* Austin (1919–20)
* Austin Black Senators (1923–26)
* Beaumont (1919)
* Beaumont Black Oilers (1920–21, 1924)
* Beaumont Black Exporters (1923)
* Dallas Black Marines (1919, 1921)
* Dallas Black Giants (1920, 1923–26)
* Fort Worth (1919)
* Fort Worth Black Panthers (1920–21, 1923–24)
* Fort Worth Wonders (1923)
* Dallas-Fort Worth Black Wonders (1925)
* Fort Worth Monarchs (1926)
* Galveston (1919)
* Galveston Black Pirates (1920)
* Galveston Black Sand Crabs (1921)
* Houston (1919)
* Houston Black Buffaloes (1920–21, 1924–26)
* (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1924–26)

* Monroe Southern Giants (1923)
* New Orleans Crescent Stars (1923)
* New Orleans (1925)
* Oklahoma City Black Indians (1925)
* San Antonio Black Aces (1919–20)
* San Antonio Black Bronchos (1923, 1925)
* San Antonio Porters (1924)
* San Antonio (1926)
* Shreveport Giants (1923)
* Shreveport Black Sports (1926)
* Tulsa (OK) (1920)
* Tulsa Black Oilers (1923)
* Waco (1919)
* Waco Black Navigators (1920)
* Wichita Falls Black Spudders (1921)
* Wichita Falls (1926)

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### 1929–31

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* Dallas Black Giants (1929–31)
* Fort Worth Black Panthers (1929)
* Houston Black Buffaloes (1929–31) (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1929)
* Oklahoma City Black Indians (1929)
* San Antonio Black Indians (1929–31)
* Shreveport Black Sports (1929, 1931)
* Tulsa Black Oilers (1929)
* Wichita Falls (1929)
* New Orleans Black Pelicans (1930–31)
* Port Arthur (1930)
* Waco (1930)
* Monroe Monarchs (1931)
* Galveston Black Buccaneers (1931)
* Fort Worth Black Cats (1931)

## Champions

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* 1919 San Antonio Black Aces
* 1920 Austin
* 1921 Houston Black Buffaloes
* 1923 Austin Black Senators
* 1924 Austin Black Senators
* 1925 Austin Black Senators
* 1926 Austin Black Senators
* 1929 no information available
* 1930 last half of season not reported; possibly Houston Black Buffaloes
* 1931 Monroe Monarchs

## References

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1. ^ "Texas Colored League 1919-1926" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
2. ^ Heaphy, Leslie A. (2003). The Negro League [1869-1960]. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 142\. ISBN 0786413808. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
3. ^ "Texas-Oklahoma-Louisiana League (1929)" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
4. ^ "Texas–Louisiana League (1930-1931)" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved June 6, 2018.

## External links

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* Center for Negro League Research

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* Southern League of Colored Base Ballists (1886)
* National Colored Base Ball League (1887)
* International League of Independent Professional Base Ball Clubs (1906)
* National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs of the United States and Cuba (1907–1909)

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* Negro Southern League (1920–1936)
* Texas Colored League (1919–1931)
* Negro American Association (1939)
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* Negro Southern League (1945–1951)
* West Coast Negro Baseball Association (1946)
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* Negro American League (1951–1960)

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