Philadelphia Tigers

Philadelphia Tigers
Information
League	Eastern Colored League (1928)
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ballpark	Pencoyd Field
Established	1928
Disbanded	1928

The Philadelphia Tigers were a Negro league baseball team that played briefly in the 1928 Eastern Colored League (ECL) before the circuit disbanded in early June. The Tigers, organized by Smittie Lucas, featured a few well-known east coast players, such as Bill Yancey, George Johnson, and McKinley Downs, but no real stars.

They played at Pencoyd Field, ^[1] which was near Wissahickon station in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia ^[2] at 40°0′53″N75°12′29″W / 40.01472°N 75.20806°W / 40.01472; -75.20806 . ^[3]

After the ECL fell apart, the Tigers struggled on as a marginal independent team into July before disbanding.

References

1. Ashwill, Gary. "1928 Season Eastern Colored League". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
2. Gordon, Patrick (November 18, 2022). "Murder, drama, and the story of the 1928 Philadelphia Tigers in the Eastern Colored League". Philadelphia Baseball Review. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
3. "[Aerial Survey of the Philadelphia Region], 1928 (circa) - Plate 53". www.philageohistory.org. Retrieved August 10, 2023. The field is southwest of the intersection of Ridge Avenue and Wissahickon Avenue (now Lincoln Drive).

• The Negro Leagues Book edited by Dick Clark & Larry Lester {1994} Publisher: The Society for American Baseball Research (Cleveland OH) ISBN   0-910137-55-2
• The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues by James A. Riley {1994} Publisher: Carroll & Graf (New York NY) ISBN   0-7867-0959-6

External links

• Team history and statistics from seamheads.com  ·  baseball-reference.com