Kelso and Longview are the home of the Cowlitz Black Bears baseball team.

* Cowlitz Black Bears, baseball team

During his junior year, Aaron joined the Mobile Black Bears, an independent Negro league team.

* Berkshire Black Bears ( 2002 – 2003 ); team later moved to New Haven, Connecticut and then folded

* Do Black Bears Hibernate?

The two major high schools in the Haywood County Schools System, the Tuscola High School Mountaineers of Waynesville and Pisgah High School Black Bears of Canton participate in one of the fiercest high school rivalries in the state of North Carolina.

The Black Bears play in the West Coast League, an independent summer baseball league with teams from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia.

Spectacled Bears, American Black Bears and California sea lions are also on display in the area, while nearby is an exhibit named Wolf Woods, which displays Mexican Wolves and North American River Otters.

# Teddy Bears and Black Eyes

* NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship – University of Maine Black Bears defeat University of New Hampshire Wildcats 3 – 2 in overtime

After a two-year career with the Penticton Panthers, in which he was named Canadian Junior A Player of the Year in 1992, Kariya joined the college ranks with the Maine Black Bears.

During his second BCJHL season, in November 1991, he verbally committed to joining the Maine Black Bears of the National Collegiate Athletics Association ( NCAA )' s Hockey East conference for the 1992 – 93 campaign.

In his first year with the Black Bears, he scored an NCAA record 100 points ( 25 goals and 75 assists ) over 39 games.

During the Black Bears ' playoff run, head coach Shawn Walsh heralded him as one of the top three college players all-time.

Kariya was also committed to the Canadian national team in preparation for the 1994 Winter Olympics and left the Black Bears in December 1993.

Five years after his tenure with the Black Bears, Kariya was selected for induction into the University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame.

Two years later, in July 2001, Kariya's number 9 was retired by the Black Bears.

Later that year, in December 1993, Kariya left his college team, the Maine Black Bears, to join the Canadian national team in preparation for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.

Mexican Black Bears ( Ursus americanus eremicus ) are also present in the mountain areas.

Clampett's colleague Friz Freleng directed a cartoon titled Goldilocks and the Jivin ' Bears in 1944, essentially Coal Black remade with a different fairy tale, and Warner's director Chuck Jones directed a series of shorts starring a prepubescent African hunter named Inki from 1939 to 1950.

Like Coal Black, Tin Pan Alley Cats and Goldilocks and the Jivin ' Bears would also end up in the Censored Eleven.

Black Bears may also refer to:

* Maine Black Bears, the athletic teams representing the University of Maine

* 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.

He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests.

In 1920, Judge Landis was a leading candidate when American League and National League team owners, embarrassed by the Black Sox scandal and other instances of players throwing games, sought someone to rule over baseball.

* 18-Larry Doby, 79, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB.

Black people were rounded up by the Oklahoma National Guard and put into several internment centers, including a baseball stadium.

The first black professional baseball team was formed in 1885 when the Babylon Black Panthers, formed by waiters and porters from the Argyle Hotel in Babylon, New York were spotted by a white businessman from Trenton, New Jersey, Walter S. Cook.

* Joe Black ( 1924 – 2002 ), birthplace and childhood home, professional baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds.

Chicago was portrayed as a lively city where blacks commonly went to the theaters, ate out at fancy restaurants, attended sports events, including " cheering for the American Black Giants, black America ’ s favorite baseball team ", and could dance all night in the hottest night clubs.

As a student, he played baseball, football, and basketball, and even played professionally for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League while still a student.

On September 11, 1921, members of the disgraced Chicago Black Sox baseball team played with the Colchester team in a game against nearby Macomb.

The Lehigh Valley Black Diamonds were a proposed Atlantic League Independent baseball team who were originally slated to play at the Lehigh Valley Multi-Purpose Sport Complex, a 6, 400-seat, $ 15 million-dollar ballpark in Williams Township.

The minor-league baseball star Edo Vanni was born at Black Diamond in 1918.

* Shoeless Joe Jackson ( 1887 – 1951 ), American baseball player most known for being banned from baseball for his part in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal

Around that time he was given a baseball bat which he named Black Betsy.

He was one of eight players permanently ineligible for professional baseball for his alleged participation in the Black Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series, in which the favored White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games.

Black tried talking to the workers who were striking, and he even got baseball equipment for them and let them play while on strike, so they would have something to do.

As a baseball fan, he was part-owner of two minor league teams: the Fort Myers Miracle and the Madison Black Wolf.

At Reese's funeral, Joe Black, another major league baseball black pioneer, said,

" Noted baseball historian Bill James does not refute this claim, but adds that during the 1920s, the Klan had toned down its racist overtures and pulled in hundreds of thousands of non-racist men, including Hugo Black.

Many of the black service personnel of the Argyle Hotel formed a baseball team, the Babylon Black Panthers, said to be the first black professional baseball team.