Four interracial baseball games involving predominantly major-league players have been found for the 1939 off-season. The first of these was played in Baltimore between a team of Negro National League All Stars (NNS) and a team of (white) Major League All Stars (MLS). The other three games were played in Los Angeles between a white All-Star team organized by Joe Pirrone (PIR) and a barnstorming team that called themselves the Philadelphia Royal Giants (PRG).
October 8, 1939 at Oriole Park IV, Baltimore MD Exhibition game Negro League All Stars(N) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 2 Major League All Stars(M) 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 x - 3 4 2 WP: Pete Appleton, LP: Marion Cain, SV: Bud Thomas Retrosheet game file October 8, 1939 at Gilmore Field, Los Angeles CA Exhibition game Pirrone All Stars(P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 - 5 9 3 Philadelphia Royal Giants 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 - 3 9 1 WP: Julio Bonetti, LP: Terris McDuffie Retrosheet game file October 8, 1939 at Gilmore Field, Los Angeles CA Exhibition game Pirrone All Stars(P) 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 - 3 7 1 Philadelphia Royal Giants 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 4 1 WP: Johnny Bittner, LP: Tom Glover, SV: Lee Stine Retrosheet game file October 11, 1939 at Gilmore Field, Los Angeles CA Exhibition game Pirrone All Stars(P) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 2 4 3 Philadelphia Royal Giants 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 x - 5 6 2 WP: Terris McDuffie, LP: Lee Stine Retrosheet game file
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