Saint johnWhen the Detroit Clowns roared into Saint John in 1922, the American club expected to walk all over the local competition. But the barnstorming professional team, like baseball’s version of the Harlem Globetrotters, found nothing funny about the way the Canadians played.They lost two of three games in the port city after running into one of the best baseball teams to come out of Atlantic Canada, the Saint John Royals. The Royals, a little-known all-Black team, traced their roots to a circuit of Black teams that had been playing around the Maritimes since the 1880s.Black baseball...…Saint johnWhen the Detroit Clowns roared into Saint John in 1922, the American club expected to walk all over the local competition. But the barnstorming professional team, like baseball’s version of the Harlem Globetrotters, found nothing funny about the way the Canadians played.They lost two of three games in the port city after running into one of the best baseball teams to come out of Atlantic Canada, the Saint John Royals. The Royals, a little-known all-Black team, traced their roots to a circuit of Black teams that had been playing around the Maritimes since the 1880s.Black baseball...WW…
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