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...
by jbminor | Jul 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) University in Pennsylvania Lincoln University (LU) is the United States’ first degree-granting historically black university.[4] Founded as a private university in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972. Its main...
by jbminor | Jul 14, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Roy Campanella Baseball player; born 19 November 1921 Philadelphia Pa; Baltimore Elite Giants Negro National League (NNL); Brooklyn Dodgers 1948; died 26 June 1993 Woodland Hills Ca Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed “Campy”, was...
by jbminor | Jul 14, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Raymond Emmitt Dandridge (August 31, 1913 – February 12, 1994), nicknamed “Hooks” and “Squat”, was an American third baseman in baseball’s Negro leagues. Dandridge excelled as a third baseman and he hit for a high batting average. By the...
by jbminor | Jul 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
History The Delaware College for Colored Students, now known as Delaware State University, was established May 15, 1891, by the Delaware General Assembly under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1890 by which land-grant colleges for Blacks came into existence in...
by jbminor | Jul 9, 2018 | Fraternities
Negro League Baseball and The African-American Economy Published 4 years ago on February 17, 2014 By TheVillageCelebration By Robert J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen In 1883, when Chicago White Stockings’ star, Cap Anson, refused to compete against a Toledo, Ohio team...
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