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Pittsburgh Crawfords
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| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Established | 1931 |
| Disbanded | 1940 |
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The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team, previously known as the Crawford Colored Giants,[1] was named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District.[2]
In 1931 Gus Greenlee, an African-American businessman in Pittsburgh, bought the Crawfords. In 1933 he founded what is known as the second Negro National League, and built Greenlee Field as a ball park for his team. During the mid-1930s, the Crawfords were one of the strongest Negro league teams ever assembled.
- ^ Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, biography of Josh Gibson: "In 1929, the Crawford Colored Giants, a semi-pro team in Pittsburgh, convinced him [Gibson] to leave the Gimbels and join their squad." Archived 2019-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kings on the Hill: Rise of the Pittsburgh Crawfords". Archived from the original on 2017-07-11. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
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