Oct 5, 1943: The Homestead Grays won their 1st Negro World Series championship by defeating the Birmingham Black Barons. The 1943 roster featured some of the greatest players in baseball history, several of whom are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame including Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and James "Cool Papa" Bell.
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"The Homestead Grays, Negro League Baseball Team." Historianspeaks, October 8, 2026. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/the-homestead-grays.
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