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= Bacharach Giants =

The Bacharach Giants were a Negro league baseball team that played in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Founding
The club was founded when two local African-American businessmen recruited eight players from the Duval Giants of Jacksonville, Florida, to Atlantic City in 1916. The new team was named after political ally Harry Bacharach, a white former mayor and current city commissioner, who was looking to promote himself in the upcoming mayoral election. The Bacharachs became a top independent team within a few years, featuring shortstop Dick Lundy, third baseman Oliver Marcell, and the great pitchers Dick Redding and Jesse "Nip" Winters. isbn:0786472375 pp.7-14

League play
In 1920 the club joined the Midwest-based Negro National League (NNL) as an associate member until the end of the 1922 season. This allowed the Bacharachs to compete against NNL teams without requiring them to play a committed schedule and still be able to barnstorm independently. In 1922, the club splintered into two factions; the majority of the roster moved to New York City under the management of John Henry Lloyd and was known as the Bacharach Giants of New York, while the rest remained in Atlantic City. %%%1919/21/22 champs  %%%need owners  %%%need park info  %%%1926 Interstate League
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In 1923, the two clubs were reunited in Atlantic City, and the Bacharach Giants became a founding member of the Eastern Colored League (ECL). The team hovered around .500 until 1926, when the shortstop Dick Lundy took over as playing manager, and brought home two consecutive pennants, helped by Marcelle, center fielder Chaney White, and pitchers Arthur "Rats" Henderson, Claude Grier, and Luther Farrell. The Bacharachs lost the Negro League World Series to the Chicago American Giants both years, though Grier and Farrell both tossed no-hitters for the Atlantic City team, the only no-hitters in Negro League World Series history. When the ECL failed early in 1928, the Bacharachs continued to play as an independent team.

Decline and demise
Despite the Bacharachs' success, attendance was not high enough to sustain their high-priced roster. In one of the most famous trades in Negro league history, they sent Lundy and Marcelle to the Baltimore Black Sox in return for veteran first baseman and manager Ben Taylor, catcher Mack Eggleston, and cash. Lundy and Marcelle sparked the Black Sox to the 1929 American Negro League pennant, while the Bacharachs languished in fifth place (out of six teams), with a 19–45 record. The team disbanded after the 1929 season and its connection to Atlantic City ended.

Founding
In 1931, white promoter Harry Passon organized a new Bacharach team based in Philadelphia. The club eventually joined Gus Greenlee's new Negro National League in 1934 but returned to independent baseball in 1935. The Bacharachs then operated independently until Passon's death in 1942 and then disbanded for good.

Founding
Owner Abe Saperstein originally had an All-Star barnstorming baseball team based in Cincinnati called the Cincinnati Crescents that played in the mid-1940s.

The team later became the Seattle Steelheads. The team was managed by W. S. Welch.

Players on the Steelheads' roster included Luke Easter, Johnny Markham, Bill Blair, Al Saylor, Willie D. Smith, Jim Ford, John Hundley, Joe Spencer, Greene Farmer, John Smith, Ulysses Redd, Percy Howard, George Alexander, Joe Brooks, Lefty Napoleon, Fred Thomas, W.C. Duffy, Frank "Groundhog" Thompson, Everert Marcell, and Joe Wiley.

The Steelheads played in the West Coast Negro Baseball League and played their first game on June 1, 1946, against the San Diego Tigers, in front of 2,500 fans at Sick's Stadium. The league folded after a month of play.

Seattle was made up of Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters baseball team, renamed for local appeal. After the circuit’s demise, Saperstein turned his club into a barnstorming team. He changed the squad’s name back to the Cincinnati Crescents but later changed it to the Harlem Globetrotters, even though they originated even farther from Harlem than the basketball team did. Some players, such as Goose Tatum, played for both the basketball and baseball teams.

Home fields
Their primary home ballpark was Sick's Stadium. They also planned home games in Tacoma, Bremerton, Spokane, and Bellingham.

MLB throwback jerseys
The Seattle Mariners honored the Steelheads when they wore 1946 Steelheads uniforms on September 9, 1995, at home against the Kansas City Royals. The Royals wore Kansas City Monarchs uniforms. The Mariners beat the Royals 6–2 in front of 39,157 fans at the Kingdome. The game was attended by former Steelhead player Sherwood Brewer. The Mariners wore a different variety of the Steelheads uniform on May 16, 2015 on "Turn Back the Clock Night" against the Boston Red Sox at Safeco Field, and lost to the Red Sox 4–2.