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This is part two of the story of how a black baseball team from Miami moved to Cincinatti and then Indianapolis and went on to become the longest running team from the Negro Leagues era. Initially known as the Miami Giants they would change their name to the Ethiopian Clowns, then to the Cincinatti Clowns before finally becoming the Indianapolis Clowns. Despite the name "clowns" they had some seriously good players on their team like Toni Stone and a pre-Braves Hank Aaron!


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Links to learn more:

http://topofthethird.blogspot.com/201...

http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/teq...

https://www.bing.com/search?q=ethiopi...