The Chicago American Giants have a long rich history in Negro League baseball. Rube Foster founded the Chicago American Giants in 1910 when he and Frank Leland dissolved their baseball relationship. Foster kept the Leland Giants team and changed their name to the Chicago American Giants in 1911.  During their first years (1911 to 1919), the Chicago American Giants would play an independent schedule. In 1920, Rube Foster organized/founded the Negro National League and from that time forward, the Chicago American Giants would be a part of the Major Leagues of Negro League baseball in the Negro National League and Negro American League. The Chicago American Giants disbanded after the 1952 season.

Eugene “Stink” White was born in Jacksonville, Florida and started playing sandlot ball there for the Derkyville Projects baseball team. He began his Negro League career in 1950 as a second baseman for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro American League.

During his Negro League career, he played for the following teams:

White was the first African American ball player to play in the Piedmont League (1953). He was selected to play in the 1957 Negro League All-Star game. When “Stink” left the Monarchs, he formed his own team called the Jacksonville Majors in 1959. The Jacksonville Majors played independent ball and in various leagues in the Jacksonville, Florida area until the late 1990’s.

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