IMAGES OF OUR PAST - 1935 - QUINCY TROUPPE OF DUBLIN, GA. AND THE BISMARK CHURCHILLS, BISMARK, NORTH DAKOTA
The Bismarck Churchills were an integrated semi-professional baseball team based in Bismarck, North Dakota in the 1930s. The team played independently of any league because its mixed race roster was a problem in a period of segregation, and because there were no formal leagues at the semi-professional level in North Dakota in the 1930s. The team was owned by Neil Churchill, a local car dealer who owned the city's Chrysler dealership, and regularly played against Valley City, Jamestown, and other teams across North Dakota and Manitoba.
The club won the 1935 National Baseball Conference semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kansas. Churchill raided other teams of their top players and stockpiled a team of Negro league and minor league all-stars. Hall of Fame Negro leaguers Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith led the team, along with Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, multi time Negro League All star catcher, Quincy Trouppe, and, of the white Sioux City Cowboys, Vernon "Moose" Johnson.[1]
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