Birmingham Unions
| Birmingham Unions | |
| Sport | Baseball |
|---|---|
| League | Southern Colored League |
| Active | 1897– |
| Home field | |
| Record | Uncertain |
| Coaches | undetermined |
| General manager | N/A |
| Website | N/A |
The Birmingham Unions or Union Base Ball Club played professional baseball for Birmingham in the short-lived "Southern Colored League". Tailor Robert L. Jackson, who owned and managed the Unions, was also founder of the league, for which he was "determined to have nothing but clean sport, such as any white lover of the game can see with pleasure, and for this reason certain teams in other cities have been refused admittance to this league."
Though the team is best documented in its 1897 season, a notice in the The Birmingham Age-Herald that April mentioned that, "The Unions have secured new uniforms and are practicing daily. They expect to turn the tables on the Cliffords and retrieve the games lost to them several years ago."
Other teams on the circuit included the Fort Worth Colts, the Hot Springs Arlingtons, the Little Rock Quapaws, the Memphis Cliffords, the Palestine Tigers, the Pensacola Acmes and the Waco Wonders.
References
- Brunson, James Edward (2019) Black Baseball, 1858-1900: A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires. McFarland ISBN 9781476616582, p. 35
- "Games This Week." (May 2, 1897) Birmingham State Herald