Hilton Smith

Hilton Smith

Hilton Smith American baseball player Hilton Lee Smith (February 27, 1907[1] – November 18, 1983) was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro league baseball. He pitched alongside Satchel Paige for the Kansas City Monarchs between 1932 and 1948. In 2001, he was...
Sam Jethroe Negro League Baseball Great

Sam Jethroe Negro League Baseball Great

Sam Jethroe American baseball player Samuel Jethroe, nicknamed “The Jet”(January 20, 1918 – June 18, 2001), was an American center fielder in Negro league and Major League Baseball. With the Cincinnati & Cleveland Buckeyes he won a pair of batting...
Joe Black Negro League Baseball Great

Joe Black Negro League Baseball Great

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...
Turkey Stearns Negro Baseball League  Legend

Turkey Stearns Negro Baseball League Legend

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...
Max Manning Negro League Baseball Legend

Max Manning Negro League Baseball Legend

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...
Gene Benson

Gene Benson

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...
Smokey Joe Williamson

Smokey Joe Williamson

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...
Lincoln Lincoln University

Lincoln Lincoln University

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...
Roy Campanella

Roy Campanella

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...
Ray Dandridge

Ray Dandridge

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...