1928 in the Negro Leagues

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1928 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	St. Louis Stars	99	63	26	0	.708	--
2	Kansas City Monarchs	80	50	29	1	.633	8.0
3	Detroit Stars	89	53	36	0	.596	10.0
4	Chicago American Giants	94	55	38	1	.591	10.0
5	Birmingham Black Barons	99	46	53	0	.465	22.0
6	Memphis Red Sox	84	33	51	0	.393	27.5
7	Cuban Stars West	54	13	41	0	.241	32.5
8	Cleveland Tigers	79	20	59	0	.253	38.0

Negro National League Championship Series:

• St. Louis Stars defeated Chicago American Giants, 5 games to 4

Eastern Colored League

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Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB
1	Atlantic City Bacharach Giants	31	18	12	1	.600	--
2	Baltimore Black Sox	37	19	15	3	.559	1.0
3	New York Lincoln Giants	17	9	7	1	.562	2.0
4	Philadelphia Tigers	9	2	7	0	.222	5.5
5	Cuban Stars East	23	6	13	4	.316	6.5

The Eastern Colored League folded in mid-season. No champion was declared.

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

• Brooklyn Cuban Giants
• Brooklyn Royal Giants: 4 - 8 (0.333)
• Chicago Giants: 1 - 1 (0.5)
• Colored All-Stars: 1 - 2 (0.333)
• Eastern All-Stars: 1 - 1 (0.5)
• Evansville Giants: 0 - 1 (0)
• Ewing's All-Stars: 0 - 3 (0)
• Harrisburg Giants: 0 - 4 (0)
• Havana Red Sox: 0 - 9 (0)
• Hilldale Club
• Homestead Grays
• Nashville Elite Giants: 0 - 6 (0)
• Pennsylvania Red Caps of NY
• Philadelphia Colored Giants of NY
• Philadelphia Quaker City Giants: 0 - 4 (0)
• Pittsburgh Crawfords
• St. Louis Giants: 2 - 11 (0.154)

Postseason

Despite having a lower researched won-lost record than St. Louis, Chicago was declared second-half champions of the NNL. St. Louis beat the American Giants five games to four in the championship playoff.