The New York Gorhams were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1886 to 1892.
During their short existence the Gorhams grew to be one of the most successful black professional clubs in the country and challenged the supremacy of the Cuban Giants.
Founded by Ambrose Davis as a barnstorming club that ranged from Newburgh, New York, to Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1887 the Gorhams became founding members of the short-lived National Colored Base Ball League.
"[3] White continued: "Their ages ranging from 22 to 32; every man placed where he was strongest, pitchers and catchers strong in field and at bat, every man a student of the game and experienced, they were a hard team for any club to beat.
[5] On August 15, 1891, they defeated the Cape May white semipro team at Cape May, New Jersey, while President Benjamin Harrison looked on—the only sitting President of the United States to witness an African American professional baseball team play during the era of segregated baseball.