{{more footnotes needed|date=September 2023}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox baseball team |name = Cleveland Giants |established = 1933 |disbanded = 1933 |city = Cleveland, Ohio |logo = |cap_logo = |league = *Negro National League (II) |nickname = *Columbus Blue Birds (first half of 1933 season) *Akron Grays (briefly, mid-1933 season) *Cleveland Giants (last part of 1933 season) |ballpark = *Luna Bowl<ref>{{cite book |title=Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro League Ballparks |last=Lowry |first=Philip J. |year=2006 |publisher=Walker Publishing Company, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-8027-1562-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/greencathedralsu0000lowr_u1c9/page/72 72–73] |url=https://archive.org/details/greencathedralsu0000lowr_u1c9/page/72 }}</ref> }} The '''Cleveland Giants''' were a Negro league baseball team. The team played for one year, 1933. Their home games were contested at Cleveland's Luna Bowl in Luna Park.
== History == In 1933, the struggling Columbus Blue Birds of the Negro National League dropped out and were replaced by the Cleveland Giants. The club went 22-28 in their first and only year. Bingo DeMoss managed the team, which included Bill Byrd (5-6), Wilson Redus (.325), SS Leroy Morney (.467) and OF Jabbo Andrews. Andrews was third in the NNL with 13 homers and third with a .412 average. Morney split the year with the Baltimore Black Sox and led the circuit in batting average.
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==External links== *{{cite book |last=Holway |first=John B. |year=2001 |title=The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History |place=Fern Park, FL |publisher=Hastings House Publishers |isbn=0-8038-2007-0 }} *{{cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile |url-access=registration |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}
==External links== {{Negro league team|sh=ACG |br=CG }}
{{Negro National League (1933–1948)}} {{Negro League teams}}
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