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Former Globetrotter and Black Baron Buys Detroit Stars
The Detroit Stars are no more. For the 1959 season until the League ends, the Detroit
team will be known as the Detroit Clowns. Reese "Goose" Tatum, former Harlem Globetrotter player purchased
the team for an undisclosed amount and has decided to change the name and the image. Following in the steps of
former Negro League owners, such as Abe Saperstein, who also owned the Globetrotters, he will attempt to add comedy
to the game, while also playing successful baseball. Tatum stated that although he owned the team, he would also
play first base.
Their first game of the season is on Sunday. They will be playing the Birmingham Black Barons.
Abe Saperstein (left) with former Black Baron Owner Tom Haynes
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Grays Primed For Series With Birmingham Barons
(Pittsburgh Courier, September 4, 1943)
The greatest crowd pleasing team turned out by Alabama in over ten
years, Birmingham Black Barons will oppose the Homestead Grays at
Forbes Field in Pittsburgh Tuesday.  
Winners of the Negro American League for the season's first half and well ahead down the stretch, the Barons have
rolled up a most impressive record this year. They have yet to lose a series, have beaten the Kansas City Monarchs
in eight of fourteen games, won 11 of 17 against the Chicago American Giants, and scored spectacular wins against
Negro National League Teams on the present exhibition tour. This is the best team turned out by any southern city
since the days of Satchel Paige, Bill Willis, Harry Salmon and Sam Streeter. They bid well to turn back the powerful
Homestead Grays on Alabama Day, September 7.
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Giants Take Pennant From Crawfords
From the Chicago Defender (July 15, 1933)
The Chicago American Giants won the pennant in the first half of the
Negro National League race by whipping the Pittsburgh
Crawfords in a thrilling game, 5-3. The two-game series was played
as a result of two games previously postponed. Although Hunter beat
Willie Foster in the first game 3 to 2, Cornelius refused to be disturbed,
whipping the great Satchel Paige to win the flag. The Giants finished
21-7, while the Crawfords won 20 and lost 8.
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