On Wednesday, September 20, 1939, in their last regular-season game under the arc lights, Bushwick defeated the Nashville Elite Giants in a tightly contested affair at Dexter Park.
In a game pitting the Negro National League second-half champs versus the Metropolitan Baseball Association champions, right-hander Emery Adams toes the slab for Nashville and is opposed by Bots Nekola for Bushwick.
Both pitchers go six innings. Nekola allows just one run on four hits and one walk with six strikeouts, while Adams yields two runs in the third and one in the six, on six hits and four walks with two strikeouts in a losing effort.
The score remains unchanged through the ninth.
In relief of Nekola, Wally Singer allows no hits with four strikeouts over three scoreless innings. Pitching in relief of Emery Adams, right-hander Willie Hubert throws two scoreless innings.
Second baseman Felton Snow accounts for two of the Elite Giants' five hits and scores their lone run in the fourth inning. Bushwick's second baseman Al Cuccinello leads the team with two hits. First baseman Gene Rodgers, Sol Mishkin, and Bots Nekola drive in a run each.
- NOTE: The Elite Giants last played at Nashville in 1934 and arrived in Baltimore for the 1938 season. I can't tell as to why the papers report the Elite Giants being from Nashville. A 17-year old catcher named Roy Campanella appears on the roster but does not appear in this game.
