Chicago American Giants

Chicago American Giants
Chicago American Giants
Information
League	Independent (1910–1919); Negro National League (I) (1920–1931); Negro Southern League (1932); Negro National League (II) (1933–1935); Independent (1936); Negro American League (1937–1952); Independent (1953-61);
Location	Chicago, Illinois
Ballpark	Schorling's Park (1911–1940); Perry Stadium (Indianapolis) (1933); Comiskey Park (I) (1941–1950);
Established	1910
Disbanded	1956
Nickname(s)	Formed via split with Leland Giants; Leland Giants (II) (1910); Cole's American Giants (1932–1935);
League titles	1920; 1921; 1922; 1926; 1927; 1932; 1933;
Negro World Series championships	1926; 1927;

The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster, they were charter members of Foster's Negro National League. The American Giants won five pennants in that league, along with another pennant in the 1932 Negro Southern League and a second-half championship in Gus Greenlee's Negro National League in 1934.

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