by jbminor | Jun 19, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Rube Foster American baseball player Andrew “Rube” Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. Source...
by jbminor | Jun 18, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Toni Stone Female Negro League baseball player Toni Stone (July 17, 1921 – November 2, 1996),born as Marcenia Lyle Stone, was the first of three women to play professional baseball as a part of the Negro League.[1][2] Toni Stone attended Roosevelt High School in...
by jbminor | Jun 18, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Mamie “Peanut” Johnson (September 27, 1935 – December 19, 2017) was an American professional baseball player who was one of three women, and the first female pitcher, to play in the Negro Leagues. She was born in Ridgeway, South Carolina in 1935. She was...
by jbminor | Jun 16, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Ted Radcliffe American baseball player-manager Theodore Roosevelt “Double Duty” Radcliffe (July 7, 1902 – August 11, 2005 (aged 103)) was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. He is one of only a handful of professional baseball players who...
by jbminor | Jun 16, 2018 | Negro Leagues
History The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990 by a group of former Negro league baseball players, including Kansas City Monarchs outfielder, Alfred Surratt,[2] Buck O’Neil, and Horace Peterson.[3] It moved from a small, single-room office inside...