| 1925 Colored World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 1–10 | |||||||||
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| Hall of Famers | Hilldale: Judy Johnson, Biz Mackey, Louis Santop Kansas City: José Méndez (mgr.) | |||||||||
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The 1925 Colored World Series was the second edition of the championship series in Negro league baseball. The series featured a rematch between the Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, champion of the Eastern Colored League (ECL), and the Kansas City Monarchs, champion of the Negro National League (NNL) and winner of the previous year's match in the first Colored World Series. In 1925, Hilldale won the best-of-nine series, five games to one.[1]
On the eve of the series, the Monarchs' star pitcher, Bullet Rogan, who had pitched a shutout in the deciding Game 7 of the NNL championship series, was injured while playing with his child at home, when a needle ran into his leg, leaving him unable to play in the World Series.[2][3] Kansas City's manager and occasional pitcher was future Hall of Famer, 38-year-old José Méndez. Hilldale featured three future Hall of Famers—catcher, Biz Mackey, third baseman, Judy Johnson, and 35-year-old backup catcher and pinch hitter, Louis Santop.[4]
Attendance for series was disappointing—down more than 50 percent in comparison with the previous year's series.[5] The financial results were so disappointing that one Kansas City Monarchs player said they would have been paid better barnstorming than playing in the series.[6]
For both teams, the 1925 season would represent the end to a three-year run as league champions. (Both teams had won their league championships in 1923, when no world series was played.) Kansas City would eventually return to win additional championships, appearing in the 1942 and 1946 series and winning in 1942. For Hilldale, however, the 1925 championship would be its last, as the team folded in 1932.
- ^ Peterson 1984, pp. 98–99, 258–262.
- ^ "Kansas City Wins Little World Series", The Afro-American, October 3, 1925
- ^ Young, Frank (October 10, 1925), "Hilldale Now Leads Kansas City in Championship Series: Eastern Club Nears Title by Beating Monarchs Three Games to One in the West", The Chicago Defender, p. 8
- ^ Holway 2001, pp. 204–205.
- ^ "World Series: Attendance—Receipts", The Chicago Defender, p. 8, October 24, 1925"World Series Drew a $21,000 Gate: Cold Weather Pulls Receipts $31,000 Below the Figures of Last Year", The Afro-American, p. 6, October 24, 1925, retrieved January 8, 2013
- ^ Young, Frank A. (October 23, 1926), "World Series Just a Joke: Played for Umpires and Commission", The Chicago Defender, p. 11
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