Texas Colored League Explained

Texas Colored League TX–OK–LA League Texas–Louisiana Negro League
Sport:	Baseball
Founded:	1919
Folded:	1931
Classification:	Minor league
Country:	United States

The Texas Colored League was a minor league Negro baseball league organized in 1919 and lasted until 1926.^[1] The league did not play a schedule in 1922.

The league was revived three years later in 1929 as the Texas–Oklahoma–Louisiana League^{[2] [3]} and renamed the Texas–Louisiana Negro League for the 1930 and 1931 seasons.^[4]

Teams

1919–26

Teams listed alphabetically by city for the 1919–21 and 1923–26 seasons. Some teams may be the same franchise with a different name or location.

• Austin (1919–20)
• Austin Black Senators (1923–26)
• Beaumont (1919)
• Beaumont Black Oilers (1920–21, 1924)
• Beaumont Black Exporters (1923)
• Dallas Black Marines (1919, 1921)
• Dallas Black Giants (1920, 1923–26)
• Fort Worth (1919)
• Fort Worth Black Panthers (1920–21, 1923–24)
• Fort Worth Wonders (1923)
• Dallas-Fort Worth Black Wonders (1925)
• Fort Worth Monarchs (1926)
• Galveston (1919)
• Galveston Black Pirates (1920)
• Galveston Black Sand Crabs (1921)
• Houston (1919)
• Houston Black Buffaloes (1920–21, 1924–26)
  • (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1924–26)

• Monroe Southern Giants (1923)
• New Orleans Crescent Stars (1923)
• New Orleans (1925)
• Oklahoma City Black Indians (1925)
• San Antonio Black Aces (1919–20)
• San Antonio Black Bronchos (1923, 1925)
• San Antonio Porters (1924)
• San Antonio (1926)
• Shreveport Giants (1923)
• Shreveport Black Sports (1926)
• Tulsa (OK) (1920)
• Tulsa Black Oilers (1923)
• Waco (1919)
• Waco Black Navigators (1920)
• Wichita Falls Black Spudders (1921)
• Wichita Falls (1926)

1929–31

• Dallas Black Giants (1929–31)
• Fort Worth Black Panthers (1929)
• Houston Black Buffaloes (1929–31) (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1929)
• Oklahoma City Black Indians (1929)
• San Antonio Black Indians (1929–31)
• Shreveport Black Sports (1929, 1931)
• Tulsa Black Oilers (1929)
• Wichita Falls (1929)
• New Orleans Black Pelicans (1930–31)
• Port Arthur (1930)
• Waco (1930)
• Monroe Monarchs (1931)
• Galveston Black Buccaneers (1931)
• Fort Worth Black Cats (1931)

Champions

• 1919 San Antonio Black Aces
• 1920 Austin
• 1921 Houston Black Buffaloes
• 1923 Austin Black Senators
• 1924 Austin Black Senators
• 1925 Austin Black Senators
• 1926 Austin Black Senators
• 1929 no information available
• 1930 last half of season not reported; possibly Houston Black Buffaloes
• 1931 Monroe Monarchs

External links

• Center for Negro League Research

Notes and References

1. Web site: Texas Colored League 1919-1926. Center for Negro League Baseball Research. 2015-04-26.
2. Book: Heaphy. Leslie A.. The Negro League. 2003. 1869-1960. April 8, 2015. McFarland. Jefferson, NC. 0786413808. 142.
3. Web site: Texas-Oklahoma-Louisiana League (1929). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. June 6, 2018.
4. Web site: Texas–Louisiana League (1930-1931). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. June 6, 2018.