You know you’re a quality baseball team when the legendary sports columnist from another city showers you with accolades.
That’s what happened in the Oct. 17, 1925 issue of the Pittsburgh Courier, when W. Rollo Wilson congratulated the Darby-based Hilldale Club for throttling the vaunted Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League in the second Colored World Series.
“Hail to the kings!” Wilson blared in his column. “The Column salutes Clan Darbie [sic], champion of Negro baseball. Well do the boys who have fought under the Hilldale banners deserve their honors and right modestly do they bear them.