The Jacksonville Red Caps were a team in Negro League Baseball

Negro league baseball

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 in 1938 and 1941-1942, playing in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

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 at J. P. Small Memorial Stadium in the Negro American League

Negro American League

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. They moved to Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

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 in 1939 and became the Cleveland Bears. They returned to Jacksonville in 1941 for two seasons. After the war, the Red Caps apparently continued as an unaffiliated Negro league team playing at Durkee Field.

On June 28, 2008, in Pittsburgh, the Tampa Bay Rays

Tampa Bay Rays

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 and Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Pirates

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 honored the Negro Leagues by wearing uniforms of the Jacksonville Red Caps and the Pittsburgh Crawfords

Pittsburgh Crawfords

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named after the Crawford Grill, a club in the Hill District of Pittsburgh owned by Gus Greenlee, the Crawfords were originally a youth semipro team sponsored by...

, respectively, in an interleague

Interleague play

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game. The Pirates won the game, 4-3 in 13 innings.