Chicago American Giants

The American Giants were Rube Foster's club, and Foster founded the Negro National League in 1920 with it as the anchor. The archive holds 37 seasons, six pennants, a 1,300-1,014 record and World Series wins in 1926 and 1927. The totals rest on surviving box scores rather than a complete count of games.

Fourteen Hall of Famers played here, among them Pete Hill, Cristóbal Torriente, John Henry Lloyd, Turkey Stearnes, Mule Suttles, Willie Wells, and Foster's brother Bill Foster, who is in the Hall as a pitcher. Rube Foster managed from 1911 to 1926 and went 642-352 before illness ended his career; Dave Malarcher managed the two title clubs.

The club played at Schorling Park, on the site of the old South Side Park, and later shared Comiskey Park. Foster is in the Hall of Fame as an executive rather than as a player or manager, which is the shortest way of saying that the league mattered more than any single season of it.