St. Louis Stars

CTL-E-5778 · Organization · other · 1936–1937

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07041 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5778.

The St. Louis Stars of this record were a Negro leagues baseball club from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 1936 as an independent team that joined the newly founded Negro American League for its charter season in 1937 and disbanded before the 1938 season because of financial difficulties. The club played its home games at Metropolitan Park. Baseball-Reference's Negro American League register lists the Stars among the league's eight 1937 clubs, alongside Birmingham, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City and Memphis. This Stars club was an entirely different organization from the original St. Louis Stars, the Negro National League club that played from 1922 to 1931 after replacing the St. Louis Giants, and the two are not blended in this record: the 1937 club's history begins in 1936, a half-decade after the earlier club folded with its league in 1931. The Stars name was used again in St. Louis in 1939 by another distinct club, the team that became the St. Louis–New Orleans Stars; that later reuse is likewise outside this record, which covers only the 1936–1937 organization and its single Negro American League season.

The record

• Also known as: St. Louis Stars (II), St. Louis Stars (1937)

Notes

STAGED 2026-10-16 (747 Program, Wave 7, Batch B) — not merged. Gate A: no match in the live graph (3,443 entities) at staging under 'St. Louis Stars'. Vital status: organization, defunct 1937 — not applicable. DISTINCTION CARRIED ON THE FACE: this is Stars (II), 1936–1937, NAL — NOT the Negro National League Stars of 1922–1931 and NOT the 1939 Stars reuse within the St. Louis–New Orleans Stars line; sources that conflate them are not followed. Edges staged: member_of → Negro American League (CTL-E-5517). Photo HELD. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Teams, companies, labels and persons carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and i) | visual_assets = HELD: No verified team photograph candidate located | chart = FILLED (Built only from this record's own sourced facts.) | video = HELD (No entry in the Shorts Link Map catalog (shorts-link-map-2026-10-15.json, 233 rows, searched 2026-10-16) bills) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging.)

Relationships

• Negro American League — member of
  The 1936–37 St. Louis Stars were a charter member of the Negro American League for its 1937 season (Wikipedia, 'St. Louis Stars (1936–1937),' citing Seamheads; Baseball-Reference NAL register). This edge attaches to Stars (II) only, not the 1922–31 Negro National League Stars. member_of runs Organization→Organization in the schema matrix.

Referenced by

• Cool Papa Bell — played for → this record
• Mule Suttles — played for → this record
• Willie Wells — played for → this record

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'St. Louis Stars (1936–1937)' — formed 1936 as an independent club; Negro American League 1937; charter member; disbanded prior to 1938 due to financial difficulties; Metropolitan Park; 'an entirely different organization from the original St. Louis Stars'; cites Seamheads and Lowry, 'Green Cathedrals' (2006) (build store)
• Baseball-Reference, Negro American League encyclopedia/register — the 1937 league comprised Birmingham, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis Athletics, Kansas City, Memphis and St. Louis Stars (accessed October 2026) (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Negro National League (1920–1931)' and franchise list — the original St. Louis Stars played 1922–1931, replacing the St. Louis Giants, and folded with the league in 1931 (build store)
• Wikipedia, 'St. Louis–New Orleans Stars' — a separate later club took the St. Louis Stars name in 1939, the third use of the name (build store)

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