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The Tennessee Rats was a small club of black baseball players formed in Holden Missouri running from approximately 1910 to 1926.Run by W.A. Brown the Tennessee Rats was almost purely a traveling team and toured much of Iowa and surrounding states playing baseball and in the early years producing a minstrel show to add to the box office take after the baseball games.Many researchers do not consider the Tennessee Rats a formal Negro League team.