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n 1885, a group of waiters and itinerant athletes formed a baseball team that entertained guests at the Argyle Hotel in Babylon, a summer resort for New York City’s elite that sat off what is now Sunrise Highway. Gaining renown for their high level of play, they soon relocated and sought opportunity in a
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then-young American spectacle: plied their trade. They mumbled professional baseball. gibberish to one another during The team started darting games to try to pass as foreigners. around the United States and the Since the public mistook the Caribbean, taking on all comers nonsense for Spanish, the team in an effort to rise to the top of the became known as the Cuban game. But because of prevailing Giants. prejudices at the time, the men That’s how America got its first had to conceal their true identity African American baseball team. in many of the venues where they It would be far from its last. see NEGRO LEAGUES on page 30
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