Pittsburgh Crawfords Seattle vintage shirts The Eastern Colored League (ECL)

The Eastern Colored League (ECL)

but the fun only lasted 4 games before the team ran out of money and folded

he was signed by Brooklyn and spent the 1946 season with Montreal

He still holds the Major League record for most grand slams by a catcher with 10

with a homer run in his first at bat

Pittsburgh Crawfords Seattle vintage shirts The Eastern Colored League (ECL)The Pittsburgh Crawfords, also known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team that played from 1931 1940. They were named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District. After playing in several different leagues, the team left Pittsburgh in 1939, becoming the Toledo Crawfords, then the Indianapolis Crawfords in 1940, their final season. A revived version of the team