The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1950. The team was established by Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nashville Standard Giants on March 26, 1920. The team was renamed the Elite Giants in 1933, and would move to Baltimore, Maryland in 1938, where it played until its final season in 1950. The team pronounced the word "Elite" to rhyme with "light".
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