[NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL FOOTAGE PHILADELPHIA STARS VS. BALTIMORE ELITE GIANTS]

Description: This silent footage shows a Negro League Baseball game between the Philadelphia Stars and the Baltimore Elite Giants. It's not known exactly when this game took place. In a game played on July 1, 1946, the Philadelphia Stars defeated the Baltimore Elite Giants 2-1. The game was played at Shibe Park, known later as Connie Mack Stadium, in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Stars' Bill Cash hit a home run, while the Baltimore Elite Giants' Henry Kimbro had a strong performance. The Philadelphia Stars' Barney Brown pitched a complete game win.

The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1950. The team was established by Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nashville Standard Giants on March 26, 1920. The team was renamed the Elite Giants in 1921, and moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1938, where the team remained for the duration of their existence. The team and its fans pronounced the word "Elite" as "ee-light"

The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro league baseball team from Philadelphia. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden returned to professional black baseball after being idle since early 1930. The Stars were an independent ball club in 1933, a member of the Negro National League from 1934 until the League's collapse following the 1948 season, and affiliated with the Negro American League from 1949 to 1952. 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 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.