Pittsburgh Crawfords History
by Jeff Proctor, 2009-01-22T20:55:21.000-08:00January 22 2009, at 08:55 PM PST
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The Pittsburgh Crawfords were a professional Negro League baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally a youth semipro team, the Crawfords were acquired in 1931 by Gus Greenlee, a numbers operator. Stepping into an organizational vacuum, as the major African American leagues of the 1920s, the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League, had fallen...
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