Some historians say the first African-American
professional baseball team was the Cuban Giants, organized in 1885. The original team consisted of black waiters
from the Argyle Hotel, a popular summer resort on Long Island in New York. The baseball games were entertainment for the
hotel guests. It was rumored the team
was so good because the waiters were really players from black amateur teams
out of Philadelphia. The name “Cuban
Giants” was used to decrease the potentially negative reaction from it being an
all-black team.
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