Complex sentence: The Pittsburgh Crawfords were a professional Negro League baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Named after Continental army officer Colonel William Crawford, the Crawfords were originally a youth semipro team, the Crawfords were acquired in 1931 by Gus Greenlee, a numbers operator.
Split into simpler sentences: The Pittsburgh Crawfords were a professional Negro League baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Named after Continental army officer Colonel William Crawford, the Crawfords were originally a youth semipro team. The Crawfords were acquired in 1931 by Gus Greenlee, a numbers operator.