Homestead Grays

CTL-E-6022 · Organization · other · 1912–1950

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07250 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6022.

The Homestead Grays were a Negro league baseball club rooted in Homestead, Pennsylvania, the steel town outside Pittsburgh whose mill workers first fielded the team. Organized in 1910 and taken in hand by player, manager, and eventual owner Cumberland Posey, the Grays played profitably as an independent club, joined the short-lived American Negro League in 1929, and fielded eastern championship teams in 1930 and 1931. After Depression-era lean years and a failed East-West League, Posey brought the club into the reorganized Negro National League, where it became a full member and built a dynasty around catcher Josh Gibson and first baseman Buck Leonard. The Grays won nine consecutive league pennants and three Negro World Series titles, split their home dates between Pittsburgh and Washington, and outlasted the league itself, playing two final independent seasons before disbanding after 1950.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 10; third Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Homestead Grays entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6022 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 2 packet ordered reserve, position 17 of 25 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1264). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — peer of the homed Kansas City Monarchs; the dominant Negro National League club of its era; core Negro leagues scope. Vital status: n/a (Organization). Club disbanded after the 1950 season (NLBM). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: NLBM honors list gives the nine consecutive pennants as 1937-1945 plus 1948, while its narrative text dates the streak 1939-1945; the Congressional Record dates the streak 1937-1945. All three datings are carried as sourced; none is merged. World Series titles: 1943, 1944, 1948 (NLBM). Duration: NLBM lists 1912-1950 while its narrative dates organization to 1910 — both shown. MEDIA: photo HELD (Homestead Grays team photograph, 1930s-1940s (NLBM team profile imagery named as candidate; PHOTO-001 verification still required) named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6022-homestead-grays.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). 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 (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (233 entries, checked by name); slot held.) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Negro National League — member of
  The Homestead Grays were full members of the Negro National League from the mid-1930s until the league folded after the 1948 season. member_of (Organization->Organization) is the matrix-legal league-membership predicate, matching the Monarchs peer wiring.

Referenced by

• Buck Leonard — played for → this record
• Cool Papa Bell — played for → this record
• Josh Gibson — played for → this record
• Jud Wilson — played for → this record
• Martín Dihigo — played for → this record
• Oscar Charleston — played for → this record

Sources

• Negro Leagues Baseball Museum eMuseum, Team Profile: Homestead Grays (accessed 2026-10-16) — organized 1910, Posey joined 1912, American Negro League 1929, eastern champions 1930-1931, Negro National League membership, Gibson-Leonard dynasty, World Series wins 1943, 1944, 1948, disbanded after 1950; duration given as 1912-1950 — https://nlbemuseum.com/history/teams/homesteadgrays.html (primary source · build store)
• Congressional Record, Senate section (2018; accessed 2026-10-16) — Grays based in Homestead, Pennsylvania; heavy Washington home schedule in the 1940s; nine consecutive league pennants 1937-1945 — https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-164/issue-121/senate-section/article/S5048-2 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, Josh Gibson (accessed 2026-10-16) — Gibson's Grays tenures (1930-1931, 1937-1939, 1942-1946) corroborating the dynasty's playing core — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Gibson (build store)

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