Kansas City Monarchs

The Monarchs won ten pennants across the 29 seasons on file and the World Series in 1924 and 1942. The recorded record is 1,107-614, the best winning rate of any club in the archive with more than a thousand games. As with every Negro Leagues club, those totals rest on the box scores that survive rather than on a complete count of games played.

Fourteen Hall of Famers played here, among them Satchel Paige, Bullet Rogan, Turkey Stearnes, Willard Brown, Hilton Smith, José Méndez and Buck O'Neil. Jackie Robinson played the 1945 season with the club, and it was from Kansas City that Brooklyn signed him.

Rogan managed the club for nine seasons while pitching for it, going 274-128. Andy Cooper and Frank Duncan also managed. The Monarchs played at Muehlebach Field, later Ruppert Stadium and then Blues Stadium, and were among the first clubs in any league to travel with a portable lighting rig, which let them play at night years before the major leagues did.