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- GLC#
- GLC10107
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1900
- Title
- Cuban X-Giants
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The New Deal The Great Depression
One photograph of the Cuban X Giants Negro league baseball team circa 1900. A group photo with twelve men. The Cuban X-Giants were a professional Negro league baseball team that played from 1896 to 1906. They were one of the most powerful independent black teams around the turn of the century winning the 1903 Colored World Championship, beating the Philadelphia Giants five games to two. The legendary Andrew "Rube" Foster, the father of Negro League baseball, pitched four of the five victories.
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