Baltimore Elite Giants

Baltimore Elite Giants
Team logo Cap insignia
Information
League
LocationBaltimore, Maryland
Ballpark
Established1920
Disbanded1950
Nickname(s)
  • Nashville Standard Giants (1920)
  • Nashville Elite Giants (1921–1934)
  • Columbus Elite Giants (1935)
  • Washington Elite Giants (1936–1937)
  • Baltimore Elite Giants (1938–1950)
League titles
  • 1939
  • 1949

The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1950. The team was established by Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nashville Standard Giants on March 26, 1920. The team was renamed the Elite Giants in 1921, and moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1938, where the team remained for the duration of their existence. The team and its fans pronounced the word "Elite" as "ee-light".[1]

  1. ^ "Lipman Pike of the Baltimore nine was famous". The Baltimore Sun. July 25, 1992. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2015.