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214: 157: 38:, and toured much of Iowa and surrounding states, playing baseball and in the early years, producing a minstrel show to add to the box office take after the baseball games. 255: 309: 198: 294: 248: 299: 284: 314: 191: 241: 53:
of baseball. Today, the Tennessee Rats are rarely mentioned in Negro baseball history, and stats and rosters are hard to find.
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Many researchers do not consider the Tennessee Rats a "formal"
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Run by W.A. Brown, the Tennessee Rats was almost purely a
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teams of the time, they had considerable impact on the
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baseball
Holden, Missouri
traveling team
Negro league
barnstorming
desegregation
John Donaldson
Jack Marshall
"Baseball News" Valentine Democrat, Valentine, Nebraska, Thursday, April 28, 1910, Page 4, Column 4


"LEADING BASEBALL CLUBS" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, IN, April 1, 1911, Page 7, Column 5
"A GOOD GAME" Bayard News Gazette, Bayard, Iowa, June 1, 1911
"Brown's Tennessee Rats..." Kansas City Sun, Kansas City, Missouri, Saturday, June 30, 1917, Page 8, Column 3
"The Ongoing Research Site for John Donaldson"
1920 Tennessee Rats Calendar
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