Colored World Series

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The Colored World Series was a championship series in Negro league baseball that pitted the top teams from rival Black professional leagues against each other to determine a de facto world champion.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Negro league baseball championship series
alsoKnownAs Negro League World Series NERFINISHED
audience fans of Negro league baseball
competitionLevel top-tier Negro league baseball
competitionType professional postseason series
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalSignificance symbol of Black athletic excellence during segregation
demographic Black professional baseball players
endYear 1927
firstEditionChampion Kansas City Monarchs NERFINISHED
firstEditionOpponent Hilldale Club NERFINISHED
firstEditionYear 1924
followedBy integration of Major League Baseball
historicalContext segregated era of American professional baseball
inception 1924
leagueFormat postseason championship series
mediaCoverage covered primarily by African American newspapers
notablePlayerParticipation Buck Leonard NERFINISHED
Cool Papa Bell NERFINISHED
Josh Gibson NERFINISHED
Monte Irvin NERFINISHED
Ray Dandridge NERFINISHED
Satchel Paige NERFINISHED
Willie Wells NERFINISHED
notableTeam Baltimore Elite Giants NERFINISHED
Birmingham Black Barons NERFINISHED
Chicago American Giants NERFINISHED
Cleveland Buckeyes NERFINISHED
Hilldale Club NERFINISHED
Homestead Grays NERFINISHED
Kansas City Monarchs NERFINISHED
Newark Eagles NERFINISHED
organizer Eastern Colored League NERFINISHED
Negro American League NERFINISHED
Negro National League NERFINISHED
participant Eastern Colored League NERFINISHED
National Negro League NERFINISHED
Negro American League NERFINISHED
Negro National League NERFINISHED
precededBy informal Negro league championship matchups
purpose to determine the de facto world champion of Black professional baseball
reasonForEnd decline of Negro leagues after MLB integration
relationToMLB parallel championship to the white Major League Baseball World Series
revivalPeriod 1942–1948
sport baseball
status defunct
typicalFormat best-of-nine series
best-of-seven series

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Eastern Colored League competition Colored World Series
Eastern Colored League participatedIn Colored World Series
this entity surface form: Colored World Series 1924
Eastern Colored League participatedIn Colored World Series
this entity surface form: Colored World Series 1925
Eastern Colored League participatedIn Colored World Series
this entity surface form: Colored World Series 1926
Eastern Colored League participatedIn Colored World Series
this entity surface form: Colored World Series 1927