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23-623: Philadelphia Stars may refer to: Philadelphia Stars (baseball) , a baseball team in the Negro leagues from 1933 to 1952 Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars , an American football team in the United States Football League from 1983 to 1984, after which they became the Baltimore Stars for their final season in 1985 Philadelphia Stars (2022) , an American football team in

46-532: A 4-4 tie due to darkness. Game 8 was played the following day and Slim Jones pitched the Stars to a 2-0 victory and the championship. Both the Stars and Giants filed protests over games 7 and 8. Giants player Turkey Stearnes hit an umpire and controversy hung over the series. The Stars claimed the Giants had used ineligible players. The Giants protested that two games should not have been played at night. Nevertheless,

69-571: A founder of the ECL. Bolden was instrumental in building the Stars' 1934 championship club and ran the team until his death in 1950. After Bolden's death, his ownership passed to his daughter, Hilda Bolden Shorter. Shorter ran the club through 1952. The team was financed, and owned in part by sports promoter Eddie Gottlieb who also owned the Philadelphia Sphas and Philadelphia Warriors basketball teams. Gottlieb leased Penmar Park from

92-701: A founding member of the Eastern Colored League (ECL). The team hovered around .500 until 1926, when the shortstop Dick Lundy took over as playing manager, and brought home two consecutive pennants, helped by Marcelle, the center fielder Chaney White , and pitchers Rats Henderson , Claude Grier , and Luther Farrell . The Bacharachs lost the Negro League World Series to the Chicago American Giants both years, though Grier and Farrell both tossed no-hitters for

115-695: A higher seating capacity and which was located in North Philadelphia . 24,165 fans saw the Stars defeat Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Monarchs on June 21, 1943. After 1947, the Stars played home games at area ballparks including Wilmington Park in Delaware, home of the Wilmington Blue Rocks minor-league team. The Stars did not have an official team logo as professional and collegiate teams have today. It

138-516: A protest with NNL Commissioner Rollo Wilson over Jud Wilson's actions. The Commissioner met with the team owners and umpires. Gholston claimed he had wanted to eject Wilson but was threatened by Stars players and intimidated into allowing Wilson to play. Stars owner Bolden threatened not to play game 7 if Jud Wilson was suspended and the Commissioner buckled under the pressure. The teams played game 7 on October 1 at Passon Field. The game ended in

161-590: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Philadelphia Stars (baseball) In 1934, led by 20-year-old left-hander Slim Jones , the Stars defeated the Chicago American Giants in a controversial playoff series, four games to three, for the Negro National League pennant. At their high point in mid-1930s, the team starred such greats as Biz Mackey , Jud Wilson , and Dick Lundy . Following his release by Cleveland , Satchel Paige signed with

184-774: The Pennsylvania Railroad for use by the Stars. In addition to the Stars, Gottlieb was the booking agent for all the Negro league teams in the Northeast, taking 10-percent of gate receipts for his work. Ed Bolden organized the Philadelphia Stars who played their first season in 1933. The Negro National League was composed primarily of mid-western teams in 1933 and many east-coast clubs were independent. The Stars were originally one such unaffiliated club and primarily played against local white semi-professional and professional teams. For example, by June 1933,

207-709: The Pittsburgh Courier newspapers. These Philadelphia Stars appeared in the All-Star game for the East team. Only players from the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Washington Elite Giants played for the East in the 1936 game. Two games were played in 1939, 1942, and 1946–1948. No player has been enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame with a Stars cap and the following inductees were with

230-579: The 1934 Negro National League Championship by beating the Chicago American Giants 4-3-1 in a best of seven game series. The championship series, however, was beset by problems. The first four games of the best-of-seven series were played in Chicago. The games went smoothly and Chicago won three of four. But game 5 was delayed by 10 days for unexplained reasons. When the Series resumed in Philadelphia,

253-791: The Atlantic City team, the only no-hitters in Negro League World Series history. When the ECL failed early in 1928, the Bacharachs continued to play as an independent team. Despite the Bacharachs' success, attendance was not high enough to sustain their high-priced roster. In one of the most famous trades in Negro league history, they sent Lundy and Marcelle to the Baltimore Black Sox in return for veteran first baseman and manager Ben Taylor , catcher Mack Eggleston , and cash. Lundy and Marcelle sparked

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276-697: The Philadelphia Stars in their career. Stars co-owner Eddie Gottlieb was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1972 for his pioneering work as a team owner, promoter, and league official. Bacharach Giants The Bacharach Giants were a Negro league baseball team that played in Atlantic City, New Jersey . The club was founded when two African-American politicians moved the Duval Giants of Jacksonville, Florida , to Atlantic City in 1916 and renamed them after Harry Bacharach ,

299-501: The Stars championship was upheld by the league. The Stars finished in fourth place in 1945 and 1946, fifth in 1947, and finished in fourth place again in 1948 with a 27–29 record. After integration and the collapse of the Negro National League, the Stars popularity and impact declined dramatically before folding at the end of 1952 season. The team played at Passon Field during the 1934 and 1935 seasons. Passon Field

322-620: The Stars in July 1950, before returning to the Majors with Bill Veeck and the St. Louis Browns . The club disbanded after the 1952 season. The Stars were founded and organized by Ed Bolden. Bolden had owned the Hilldale Club that won the Eastern Colored League pennant in 1923, 1924, and 1925, and which beat the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro League World Series in 1925. Bolden was also

345-444: The Stars won game 6 to tie the series but did so amidst controversy. Early in game 6, Stars’ third-baseman Jud Wilson seemed to hit umpire Bert Gholston which should have meant immediate ejection. Over the protest of Chicago manager Dave Malarcher, Gholston refused to eject Wilson. Later in the game, Stars catcher Ameal Brooks pushed another of the umpires who also refused to eject the Stars player. Prior to game 7, Malarcher filed

368-491: The Stars' only games against black teams had been against the Philadelphia Bacharach Giants and the Pittsburgh Crawfords . The Negro National League used a split-season playoff system in 1934 with the season's first-half winner playing the second-half winner for the championship. The Chicago American Giants won the first-half. The Stars won the second-half with a record of 11-4. The Stars won

391-586: The city's mayor. The Bacharachs became a top independent team within a few years, featuring shortstop Dick Lundy , third baseman Oliver Marcell , and the great pitchers Dick Redding and Jesse "Nip" Winters . In 1920 the club joined the Midwest-based Negro National League (NNL) as an associate member. Though the Bacharachs played NNL teams extensively, touring the Midwest each year from 1920 to 1922, they did not compete for

414-540: The league championship. In the winter of 1920-1921, the club competed in the Cuban League , and were managed by Tinti Molina . In 1922, the club splintered into two factions; one took most of the roster and moved to New York City under the management of John Henry Lloyd , while the other remained in Atlantic City. In 1923, the two clubs were reunited in Atlantic City, and the Bacharach Giants became

437-450: The left. Another style cap worn by the Stars was an all navy cap with a red P. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) created a series of team logos in the 1990s for the well-known Negro league teams so that the NLBM could license such logos and collect royalties for their use on merchandise. Such revenue helps sustain the museum. The Stars were one such team for which a contemporary logo

460-517: The revived United States Football League from 2022 to 2023 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Philadelphia Stars . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philadelphia_Stars&oldid=1190835965 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

483-601: Was created. It is seen on NLBM-licensed Stars merchandise and while it supports the educational efforts of the Museum, it is not a historical logo. The Negro League Baseball All-Star Game was called the East-West Game. Players were not divided by league, but by geographical location; Stars players played for the East. Players were voted to the teams by the fans with votes tallied by the Chicago Defender and

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506-418: Was located at the current site of West Philadelphia High School 's athletic field (baseball and football) now called Pollock Field and was the former home of the Philadelphia Bacharach Giants . In 1936, the Stars moved to 44th and Parkside Ballpark where they played the majority of their home games through 1947 when they lost their lease. The Stars often played on Monday nights at Shibe Park which had

529-412: Was not common practice for teams to have such standardized team symbols in the 1930s and 1940s. The Stars wore uniforms with red and navy blue decoration. The cap most commonly associated today with the Stars is their 1938 cap, seen above, which has a navy crown, red brim, and white star with a red sans-serif P. For most of their history, they wore a white cap with a red brim, and red sans-serif P as seen to

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