Bugle Field was a Baltimore

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 based, predominantly wooden stadium

Stadium

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 utilized by the two primary Negro League teams of the 1920s - early 1950s the Baltimore Black Sox

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 and Baltimore Elite Giants

Baltimore Elite Giants

The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from to . The team was established by Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nashville Standard Giants on March 26, 1920. The team was renamed the Elite Giants in , and would move to...

. The Black Sox had a short tenure at the park, moving into the park permanently in 1932 before folding during the 1934 season. The Elite Giants were the park's primary tenants until its dismantlement during the 1949 Negro National League Championship Series. It was located at the corner of Federal Street and Edison Highway.

Sources

• Baseball in Baltimore, The First 100 Years, by James H. Bready.
• Baltimore News-American Newspaper, September 1949.
• Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper, September 1949.