by jbminor | Jun 19, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Homestead Grays Baseball team The Homestead Grays (also known as Washington Grays or Washington Homestead Grays) were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues in the United States. Quick Facts: League titles, Negro World Series titles … The team...
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...
by jbminor | Jun 15, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Judy Johnson American baseball player William Julius “Judy” Johnson (October 26, 1899 – June 15, 1989) was an American professional third baseman and manager whose career in Negro league baseball spanned 17 seasons, from 1921 to 1937. Slight of build,...
by jbminor | Jun 15, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Josh Gibson American baseball player Joshua Gibson (c. December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American Negro league baseballcatcher. Baseball historians consider Gibson to be among the very best power hitters and catchers in the history of any league, including...
by jbminor | Jun 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
While Livingstone College is a historically black college or university (HBCU) originally founded for African American youths, Livingstone prides itself on being an equal opportunity educational institution and offers admission to students of all backgrounds, colors,...
by maxeycreative | May 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
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