In the 1930's Boston had three popular Black baseball teams. The Tigers, whose owners AA Johnson & Bob Russell attended annual Negro League owners' meetings applying f/ acceptance. The Royal Giants, who played as far North as Cape Breton, N.S., & the ABC's, owned by Clara Muree..

.Jones. She forbade them fr. playing on Sundays. Once in '35 they beat the Homestead Grays 4-1, & they beat an all-white team in Henderson, N.C. 17-0. The RG's endured into the 1950's, & in '46 were the best team in the Newport Sunset League, vs. college plyrs fr. Brown & PC

The Royal Giants had played in the early '20's as the "Philadelphia Giants", as a branding ploy to inform promoters & fans they were Black (similar to Chicago's Savoy Ballroom Big Five touring as "The Harlem Globetrotters")

The Boston Tigers' nucleus was players from Rindge HS. They played taxi companies, Italian athletic clubs, and a team from Southie. Incident free. Romare Bearden pitched f/ them under an assumed name, while a BU student

Gene Benson was CF f/ the Boston Royal Giants in '44, when he was plucked to room in Venezuela w/ a hotheaded kid named Jack Robinson, in hopes the latter could integrate the big leagues if he could overcome his notorious temper

The Boston Monarchs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Holmes#/media/File:Negro_League_Boston_Monarchs_-_1936.jpg

The Boston (Colored) Tigers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Holmes#/media/File:Boston_Tigers_Negro_Leagues_Team.jpg

Reece "Goose" Tatum (Globetrotters) played first base f/ the Boston Royal Giants. But their enduring showperson was hurler Will Jackman. 'Ball turned down numerous opportunities to tour in the major Negro Leagues, to remain in Boston w/ his battery mate fr. The South End

Jackman could have pitched in the major Negro Leagues. He already had. But he preferred living in Boston, where he & catcher Burlin White were a huge touring draw in Maine, Nova Scotia, the Boston Park League, Vermont- & he was free to moonlight for Watertown Arsenal, & w/

...Douglas, a club in Central Mass' Blackstone River Valley League, where he teamed w/ collegian Hank Greenberg. Jackman also was loaned out to the Portsmouth Naval Yard team. That's why he turned down the big Black baseball teams. Fan base & freedom. & no Jim Crow travel

Robbie Robinson of the Boston Tigers. The "Blunt" on that Andover team, is Russell Blunt of the Merrimack Valley, who went on to coach John Lucas & Rodney Rogers in h.s., & was the U.S' oldest h.s. basketball coach (Durham Hillside)
https://www.winchester.us/DocumentCenter/View/3477/Robbie-Robinson?bidId=

Danny McFayden of Somerville pitched 17 yrs in the bigs, in h.s. he pitched a famed extra inning game vs. Joel Lewis, a Black pitcher fr. Allston, Mass. Sam Nahem pitched three yrs in the majors (& w/ Brooklyn's Bushwicks). In the mid-'40s, when the Boston Royal Giants played...

...every Wednesday in the Newport (RI) Sunset League, which was comprised of Providence College & Brown U. talent, Newport would bring in Nahem to pitch vs. 48 yr old "Cannonball" Will Jackman of the Boston RG's. Jackman always won.

Frannie Matthews of Rindge Tech, and the Newark Eagles:
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/fran-matthews/

Other standout local Black teams included the West Medford Independents (led by pitcher Joel Lewis), the West Newton Giants, Harvard A.C., the Cleveland Giants (a branding name), the Quaker Giants (who marketed themselves as a Philly club)

The great Black players in Greater Boston 1920-1945 were Stody Ward, Deedy Crosson, Russel Blunt, Spike Corbin, Burlin White, Frannie Matthews, Will Jackman, Pud Flournoy, Sheriff Blake, Gene Benson, Joel Lewis, Herbert Holmes, & Romare Bearden: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-man-who-spurned-a-baseball-career-to-become-a-renowned-artist/254451/