The greatest teams of black baseball
Experts' top five to be revealed during Black History Month
Baseball fans and Negro League historians have long appreciated Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston and other iconic figures in black baseball.
Those same fans, though, have been slow to embrace the teams for which these stars played.
Bob Kendrick isn't surprised.
"The tendency is to focus more on these characters," said Kendrick, the marketing director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. "They were great characters -- great nicknames, great flair. So the teams have almost been a little bit de-emphasized in the minds of baseball fans."
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But which were the greatest of those great teams? The choices are many. Was it the 1910 Chicago Leland Giants? Maybe it was the '26 Baltimore Elite Giants. The '46 Newark Eagles? The possibilities are many.
Team number five will be revealed today.
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