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1926 in the Negro Leagues

Standings

BOLD indicates League Champion

Negro National League

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Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB
1	Kansas City Monarchs	82	60	22	0	.732	--
2	Chicago American Giants	84	57	24	3	.704	2.5
3	St. Louis Stars	98	61	35	2	.635	6.0
4	Detroit Stars	100	52	47	1	.525	16.5
5	Indianapolis ABCs	91	40	50	1	.444	24.0
6	Cuban Stars West	68	19	49	0	.279	34.0
7	Dayton Marcos	42	6	36	0	.143	34.0
8	Cleveland Elites	49	8	40	1	.167	35.0

Negro National League Championship Series:

• Chicago American Giants defeated Kansas City Monarchs, 5 games to 4

Eastern Colored League

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Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB
1	Hilldale Club	98	53	33	2	.616	--
2	Atlantic City Bacharach Giants	72	43	28	1	.606	2.5
3	Cuban Stars East	51	29	22	0	.569	6.5
4	Harrisburg Giants	49	27	22	0	.551	7.5
5	New York Lincoln Giants	54	22	31	1	.415	14.5
6	Newark Stars	11	1	10	0	.091	14.5
7	Brooklyn Royal Giants	35	11	24	0	.314	16.5
8	Baltimore Black Sox	62	22	38	2	.367	18.0

Independent Teams

Source: Teams list from The Negro Leagues Book by Dick Clark and Larry Lester; records are from The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues, John Holway

• Chappie Johnson's Stars
• Chattanooga Black Lookouts
• Memphis Red Sox
• Pennsylvania Red Caps of NY
• Philadelphia Giants
• Pittsburgh Homestead Grays

Postseason

The NNL had a split season. Kansas City and Chicago met in a best of nine playoff. With the Monarchs still holding a 4 games to 3 lead, Chicago's Bill Foster defeated Bullet Rogan 1-0 to force a ninth game, which was to be played as the second game of a doubleheader. Rogan had chosen Chet Brewer to pitch the second game, but when he saw Foster warming up to pitch against Brewer, he pulled Brewer and decided to pitch himself again. It was no contest between the young fireballer and the fading veteran. The American Giants scored early upon the tiring Rogan and Foster cruised to win the darkness-shortened five-inning second game 5-0, and the American Giants were NNL champions.

In the Negro World Series, the Chicago American Giants (NNL) defeated the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants (ECL), 5 games to 3.