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unusual facts about Negro Leagues



Bingo DeMoss

Elwood "Bingo" DeMoss (September 5, 1889 – January 26, 1965) was a baseball player and manager in the Negro Leagues from 1905 to 1943.

Borchert Field

Borchert Field was also home to Milwaukee's short-lived entries in the Negro Leagues and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the Milwaukee Bears and Milwaukee Chicks.

Sam Holmes

(December 11, 1915 - November 8, 2010) played in the Negro Leagues for the Monroe Monarchs (though it is assumed he played for them after they left the major Negro Southern League following 1932) and Denver White Elephants, a semi-professional team.

Sherman Barton

Sherman "Bucky" Barton (born February 2, 1875 in Normal, Illinois - July 11, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Outfielder in the Negro Leagues.

Stumptown Kid

In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.

The Soul of Baseball

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America is a 2007 book written by Joe Posnanski about Buck O'Neil, an American professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues during the 1940s and 1950s.

Wallace Gordon

Gordon played for many different teams, and played with some of the top pre-Negro Leagues players, such as Dizzy Dismukes, Bingo DeMoss, Oscar Charleston, and Ben Taylor.


see also

African Americans in Atlanta

From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Atlanta Black Crackers, a baseball team in the Negro Southern League, and later on, in the Negro American League, entertained sports fans at Ponce de Leon Park; some of the members of the Black Crackers would become players in Major League Baseball following the integration of the Negro Leagues into the larger leagues.

Cuban Stars

New York Cubans, a team of Cuban and baseball players from other Latin American countries that competed in the United States Negro leagues, as a reincarnate of the old Cuban Stars teams, from 1935 to 1950

Eddie Klep

Singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky memorialized Klep's time in the Negro leagues in a song entitled, The Ballad Of Eddie Klepp.

Effa Manley

Her players traveled in an air-conditioned Flxible Clipper bus, considered extravagant for the Negro leagues.

Jimmie Crutchfield

Teamed with Ted Strong and Cool Papa Bell, they formed what is considered the best outfield in the Negro Leagues.

Pellom McDaniels

Publications include: My Own Harlem (1998); So, You Want to be Pro (2000), "We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance" in Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box (2004); reviews in Hampton University's International Review of African American Art related to the work of artists Kadir Nelson and Hale Woodruff.

Rich Gee

Gee's brother, Tom, also played in the Negro Leagues, and was Rich's teammate with the Giants in 1925 and 1926.

Stanley Glenn

In February 1994, Stanley Glenn and several other players from the Negro Leagues were honored by Vice-President Al Gore at the White House.

The Soul of Baseball

Posnanski, a former baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and the The Kansas City Star accompanied O'Neil on a 2006 cross-country journey to raise awareness of the Negro Leagues.

Tom Gee

Gee's brother, Rich, also played in the Negro Leagues, and was Tom's teammate with the Giants in 1925 and 1926.