The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1950.

[2] The Standard Giants welcomed any and all competition, including white-only teams, but played independently of any organized leagues until the mid-1920s.

[7] The ballpark was centrally located in Nashville's largest black community, known as Trimble Bottom, near the convergence of Second and Forth Avenues, just north of the fairgrounds.

A second incarnation of the Negro National League was formed in 1933, where the Elite Giants played for the following two seasons.

These Baltimore Elite Giants alumni have been inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

A number of future major leaguers wore the uniform of the Elite Giants, including Hall of Famers Roy Campanella and Leon Day (who played in with the team in the non-major league years of 1949-50).

Also a member of the Elite Giants were two future National League Rookie of the Years in Junior Gilliam (1953) and Joe Black (1952), each who played with Campanella for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Elite Giants also added the first known professional baseball player of Cape Verdean descent, Joe Campinha to their roster in 1948.