New Orleans Ads


The New Orleans Ads were a Negro Southern League baseball team in 1920 based in New [Orleans, Louisiana|Louisiana]. The team was started by Fred Caulfield, a local backer. and is often referred to in newspapers as the Caulfield Ads.
While the NSL was regarded as a minor league throughout most of its existence, with the collapse of the first Negro National League in 1932, it was considered a major league for that one season.
The team played opposite days from the white New Orleans Pelicans team at Pelican Stadium.