Texas Colored League

The Texas Colored League was a minor league Negro baseball league organized in 1919 and lasted until 1926. The league did not play a schedule in 1922.

The league was revived three years later in 1929 as the Texas–Oklahoma–Louisiana League and renamed the Texas–Louisiana Negro League for the 1930 and 1931 seasons.

1919–26
Teams listed alphabetically by city for the 1919–21 and 1923–26 seasons. Some teams may be the same franchise with a different name or location.


 * Austin (1919–20)
 * Austin Black Senators (1923–26)
 * Beaumont (1919)
 * Beaumont Black Oilers (1920–21, 1924)
 * Beaumont Black Exporters (1923)
 * Dallas Black Marines (1919, 1921)
 * Dallas Black Giants (1920, 1923–26)
 * Fort Worth (1919)
 * Fort Worth Black Panthers (1920–21, 1923–24)
 * Fort Worth Wonders (1923)
 * Dallas-Fort Worth Black Wonders (1925)
 * Fort Worth Monarchs (1926)
 * Galveston (1919)
 * Galveston Black Pirates (1920)
 * Galveston Black Sand Crabs (1921)
 * Houston (1919)
 * Houston Black Buffaloes (1920–21, 1924–26)
 * (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1924–26)


 * Monroe Southern Giants (1923)
 * New Orleans Crescent Stars (1923)
 * New Orleans (1925)
 * Oklahoma City Black Indians (1925)
 * San Antonio Black Aces (1919–20)
 * San Antonio Black Bronchos (1923, 1925)
 * San Antonio Porters (1924)
 * San Antonio (1926)
 * Shreveport Giants (1923)
 * Shreveport Black Sports (1926)
 * Tulsa (OK) (1920)
 * Tulsa Black Oilers (1923)
 * Waco (1919)
 * Waco Black Navigators (1920)
 * Wichita Falls Black Spudders (1921)
 * Wichita Falls (1926)

1929–31

 * Dallas Black Giants (1929–31)
 * Fort Worth Black Panthers (1929)
 * Houston Black Buffaloes (1929–31) (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1929)
 * Oklahoma City Black Indians (1929)
 * San Antonio Black Indians (1929–31)
 * Shreveport Black Sports (1929, 1931)
 * Tulsa Black Oilers (1929)
 * Wichita Falls (1929)
 * New Orleans Black Pelicans (1930–31)
 * Port Arthur (1930)
 * Waco (1930)
 * Monroe Monarchs (1931)
 * Galveston Black Buccaneers (1931)
 * Fort Worth Black Cats (1931)

Champions

 * 1919 San Antonio Black Aces
 * 1920 Austin
 * 1921 Houston Black Buffaloes
 * 1923 Austin Black Senators
 * 1924 Austin Black Senators
 * 1925 Austin Black Senators
 * 1926 Austin Black Senators
 * 1929 no information available
 * 1930 last half of season not reported; possibly Houston Black Buffaloes
 * 1931 Monroe Monarchs