Yeadon in Delaware County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

The Hilldale Athletic Club

(The Darby Daisies)

Photographed by Don Morfe, March 10, 2015

1. The Hilldale Athletic Club Marker

Inscription.
This baseball team, whose home was here at Hilldale Park, won the Eastern Colored League championship three times and the 1925 Negro League World Series. Darby fielded Negro League teams from 1910 to 1932. Notable players included baseball hall of fame members Pop Lloyd, Judy Johnson, Martin Dihigo, Joe Williams, Oscar Charleston, Ben Taylor, Biz Mackey, and Louis Santop. Owner Ed Bolden helped form the Eastern Colored League.

Erected 2006 by Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Sports. In addition, it is included in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1925.

Location. 39° 55.5′ N, 75° 15.389′ W. Marker is in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, in Delaware County. It is on MacDade Boulevard (U.S. 13) north of Cedar Avenue, on the right. Opposite Holy Cross Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 200 MacDade Blvd, Darby PA 19023, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Southeast Pennsylvania

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and in Greater Philadelphia.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Nile Swim Club of Yeadon (approx. ¾ mile away); Printz's (Old Swedes) Mill (approx. ¾ mile away); In Memoriam (approx. 0.9 miles away); Tatiana Proskouriakoff (approx. 0.9 miles away); Graceland Cemetery (approx. 1.1 miles away); a different marker also named Graceland Cemetery (approx. 1.1 miles away); War Memorial (approx. 1.2 miles away); All U.S. War Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Yeadon.

Photographed by Don Morfe, March 10, 2015

2. The Hilldale Athletic Club Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on August 7, 2026. It was originally submitted on March 14, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 1,709 times since then and 80 times this year. Last updated on August 6, 2026, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on March 14, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.