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Schenectady had something very special in the 1913 Mohawk Giants. The team formed that year and was Schenectady’s first professional baseball team since the Frog Alleys (or Dorpians) departed for Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1904.
Mohawk Giants brought Hall of Fame-level talent to Schenectady FacebookTwitterEmail Walter Johnson, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, had one of his greatest seasons in 1913, going 36-7. But that fall, the Mohawk Colored Giants, a Black baseball team in Schenectady, added an unofficial loss to Johnson’s tally when he and an all-white team of major leaguers came to the city as part of a barnstorming tour. Facing Johnson was Giants’ pitcher Frank Wickware, who possessed “one of the fastest fastballs of the era,” according to Steven Rice, a member of the Society for American Base...
Remembering the Capital Region's Negro League baseball players Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league Joyce Bassett FacebookTwitterEmail In December, Major League Baseball reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history. The league said it was "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. The Negro Leagues were made up of seven leagues, and MLB will include records from those circuits between 1920...