The 1943 Washington Homestead Grays baseball team represented the Washington Homestead Grays in the Negro National League (NNL) during the 1943 baseball season.
The team compiled a 78–23–1 (.770) record and won the NNL pennant for the sixth time in franchise history.
They won the right to go to the 1943 Negro World Series and were tasked against the Birmingham Black Barons; the Grays won in seven games for their first World Series title.
The team played its home games at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh and Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.[1] The team's leading batters were: [2] The team's leading pitchers were Johnny Wright (18–3, 2.54 ERA, 94 strikeouts), Spoon Carter (14–2, 3.83 ERA, 44 strikeouts), Edsall Walker (9–4, 3.36 ERA), and Ray Brown (6–1, 4.10 ERA).
[3] Five of the Grays players were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Cool Papa Bell; Ray Brown; Josh Gibson; Buck Leonard; and Jud Wilson.