by jbminor | Aug 15, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Joe Black American baseball player Joseph Black (February 8, 1924 – May 17, 2002) was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro League and Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, and Washington Senators who became the first black pitcher to...
by jbminor | Aug 14, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Source Wikipedia Turkey Stearnes American baseball player Norman Thomas “Turkey” Stearnes (May 8, 1901 – September 4, 1979) was an African American outfielder in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000. Source...
by jbminor | Aug 2, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Maxwell Cornelius Manning (November 18, 1918 in Rome, Georgia, – June 23, 2003 in Pleasantville, New Jersey) was a pitcher in Negro league baseball. He played for the Newark Eagles between 1938 and 1949. In the 1946 Negro World Series, he started two games and...
by jbminor | Aug 1, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Gene Benson Baseball player Eugene Benson (October 2, 1913 – April 6, 1999) was an American center fielder in baseball’s Negro Leagues. He played for the Philadelphia Stars in 1937, moved to the Homestead Grays in 1938, and returned to the Stars from 1939 to...
by jbminor | Jul 21, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Cyclone Joe Williams Baseball player Joseph Williams (April 6, 1886 – February 25, 1951), nicknamed “Cyclone Joe” or “Smokey Joe”, was an American right-handed pitcher in the Negro leagues. He is widely recognized as one of the game’s...