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2 unusual facts about Rube Foster


Andrew Foster

Rube Foster (Andrew Foster, 1879–1930), American baseball player, manager, and executive

Rube Foster

After a slump, he was released, and signed with a white semipro team based in Otsego, Michigan - Bardeen's Otsego Independents.


Albert Toney

Toney played with many popular players of the day, including Rube Foster, Dangerfield Talbert, Henry W. Moore, Chappie Johnson, William Binga, Walter Ball.

Birmingham Black Barons

Drawing largely from a successful American Cast Iron Pipe Company Industrial League team, the Black Barons were organized in 1920 for the inaugural season of Rube Foster's Negro Southern League, which operated mainly as a minor league.

C. I. Taylor

In 1914 he became half-owner, along with Thomas Bowser, and manager of the Indianapolis ABC's, and over the next several seasons developed the team into a power rivaled only by Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants.

Dangerfield Talbert

He played with and against many well-known names of the day, including Rube Foster, Sol White, Henry W. Moore, William Binga, Walter Ball, and Charles "Joe" Green.

Frank Leland

He produced and worked with well-known pre-Negro League baseball players: Walter Ball, Harry Buckner, William Horn, George Hopkins, Harry Hyde, William Monroe, George Wright, Harry Moore, Pete Burns, Lewis Reynolds, William Smith, Dangerfield Talbert, Bert Jones, Nathan Harris, Rube Foster, and Andrew Campbell.

Willis Jones

He played with several popular players of the day, including Home Run Johnson, Rube Foster, Mike Moore, Bill Gatewood, Dick Wallace, and George Hopkins.


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