TheJamestown Red Sox were an integrated semi-professionalbaseball team based inJamestown, North Dakota, in the 1930s.
The Red Sox played independently of any league because their mixed race roster was a problem in a period ofsegregation. As their player-manager from May to October1934,Ted Radcliffe became the first black man to manage white professional players. With backing from the local Gladstone Hotel, the team also signedBarney Brown,Bill Perkins, andSteel Arm Davis to become the strongest team in North Dakota.[1] The club played 56 games in that year going 40-16.[2][user-generated source?] After the regular season, the Red Sox played the Earl Mack Major League All-Stars featuringJimmie Foxx,Heinie Manush,Pinky Higgins,Doc Cramer,Ted Lyons andEarl Whitehill. Jamestown won three straight games against the "All-Stars".
The team played in grey flannel jerseys decorated with a black felt letter "J" on the left breast and a red felt sock on the right sleeve.
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