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Indianapolis Clowns
American baseball team
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Charleston
- In Oscar Charleston
…in 1954 he guided the Indianapolis Clowns to a Negro World Championship. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. The magnitude of Charleston’s accomplishments as a player were obscured for many years as a result of the incompleteness of Negro league statistics. However, research efforts during…
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Negro leagues
- In Negro league: Decline of the Negro leagues
…Barons) and Hank Aaron (Indianapolis Clowns) and old stars such as Satchel Paige left to play in the major leagues. A few teams tried the integration route by signing a handful of white players, and during the 1950s two teams, the Indianapolis Clowns and Kansas City Monarchs, had female…
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Stone
- In Toni Stone
…in 1953 she joined the Indianapolis Clowns, playing the same position.
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