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Dayton Marcos
The Dayton Marcos were a Negro League baseball team
that is now defunct along with the Negro League. They
Barnstorming years
were based from Dayton, Ohio. Dayton left the league after one year and a last place fin-
ish, and played independently until the mid 20s. They
then rejoined briefly for part of 1926, when they finished
Founding in second-to-last and left the league once again.
The Dayton Marcos history does go back farther than the Although, they were a significant part of Dayton sports
Negro League though. As an independent team and also history, too little is known about them to factor them in
in the Ohio-Indiana League, they played black and white too highly.
teams all over the country throughout the 1910s.
According to the Negro League Baseball Players As-
sociation Website, old newspaper accounts and fading
Demise
memories are the only sources of information on the The Marcos survived until the Second World War. Dayton
Marcos [1] even as they burst into the Negro League. did not have a baseball team again until 2000 when the
They played in the then newly formed Negro National Dayton Dragons formed.
League, which was formed by Rube Foster. The Marcos
were one of those first eight teams to play in the first Ne-
gro League to survive a full season.
References
During this time, the Marcos did play against some
heavy competition, including that of Satchel Paige.
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