Interracial Baseball Games: 1939

Four interracial baseball games involving predominantly major-league players have been found for the 1939 off-season. The first of these was played in Baltimore between a team of Negro National League All Stars (NNS) and a team of (white) Major League All Stars (MLS). The other three games were played in Los Angeles between a white All-Star team organized by Joe Pirrone (PIR) and a barnstorming team that called themselves the Philadelphia Royal Giants (PRG).

October 8, 1939 at Oriole Park, Baltimore, MD
Negro League All Stars              0 0 0   0 1 0   0 0 0    -   1  6  2
Major League All Stars              2 1 0   0 0 0   0 0 x    -   3  4  2
WP: P. Appleton, LP: M. Cain
Retrosheet game file



October 8, 1939 at Gilmore Field, Los Angeles, CA
Pirrone All Stars                   0 0 0   0 0 0   1 1 1   2  -   5  9  3
Philadelphia Royal Giants           1 0 0   0 0 2   0 0 0   0  -   3  9  1
WP: J. Bonetti, LP: T. McDuffie
Retrosheet game file and play-by-play



October 8, 1939 at Gilmore Field, Los Angeles, CA
Pirrone All Stars                   0 0 0   2 1 0   0  -   3  7  1
Philadelphia Royal Giants           2 0 0   0 0 0   0  -   2  4  0
WP: J. Bittner, LP: T. Glover
Retrosheet game file



October 11, 1939 at Gilmore Field, Los Angeles, CA
Pirrone All Stars                   0 1 0   0 0 0   1 0 0    -   2  4  0
Philadelphia Royal Giants           0 0 0   0 2 0   0 3 x    -   5  6  1
WP: T. McDuffie, LP: L. Stine
Retrosheet game file

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