Idlett, Arthur Leroy 1924-1925 Atlanta Black Crackers
(Kid)
1926 Atlanta Black Crackers
1926-1929 Morehouse College
1930-1934 Pullman Stars
(D)
1935 New Orleans Pelicans
1936 Atlanta Black Crackers
Morehouse Athletic Hall of Fame
(IND)
(NSL)
(IND)
(NSL)
(NSL)
(1965)
Ingram, Preston
(Red)
1934-1937 Atlanta Black Crackers
(NSL)
1944-1949 Atlanta Braves (Alabama-Georgia-Florida League)
Irvin, Calvin
(Cal)
1940-1942 Orange High School (Orange, New Jersey)
(All-State Basketball - 2 years)
1940-1942 Orange Triangles
1943-1945 Morgan State University
(College Basketball & Football)
(All - Conference Basketball)
1946 University of Illinois
1946 Newark Eagles
1947 Raleigh Grays
1947 Turned down contract w/ New York Giants (MLLB),
refused assignment to Phoenix
(IND)
(NNL)
(NSL)
College Basketball Coaching Career:
J.C. Smith College
(4 years)
North Carolina A & T (18 years)
North Carolina A & T - Athletic Director
CIAA Coach of the Year
(1952 and 1954)
(Over 400 wins in college basketball)
Newark Athletic Hall of Fame
Irvin, Monford
(Monte)
(1995)
1932-1937 Orange Triangles
(IND)
(Semipro Baseball Team)
1933-1936 East Orange High School (NJ)
(Earned 16 Varsity sports letters)
(All-State honors - 4 sports for three consecutive
years)
1937 Paterson Smart Set
1937-1938 Newark Eagles
(NNL)
(Played under name "Jimmy Nelson")
1938 Orange Triangles Basketball Team
1938 Offered football scholarship to University of Michigan
(Irvin turned it down because he didn't have
transportation funds.)
1938-1939 Lincoln University (CIAA)
(Played college football, baseball, track and
basketball)
(All-Conference - running back)
1938-1942 Newark Eagles
(NNL)
1942 Homestead Grays
(World Series Roster)
(NNL)
1942 Vera Cruz Blues
(Mexican League)
1943-1945 U.S. Army (Military Service)
(GS Engineers 1313th Battalion)
186
1945-1947 Newark Eagles
(NNL)
1947 Effa Manley offered Monte to Bill Veeck of Cleveland
Indians (MLBB) for $ 1,000 look-see and then be paid
for what he was worth. Veeck rejected the offer.
1947-1949 Newark Eagles
(NNL)
1949 Signed Major League contract w/ Brooklyn Dodgers
(Assigned to St. Paul Farm Team)
(Dodgers released him rather than pay Effa Manley and
Newark Eagles for his contract)
1949 Contract sold by Effa Manley of Newark Eagles to
New York Giants organization for $5,000
1949 Jersey City Giants
(IL)
1949 New York Giants
(ML)
1950 Jersey City Giants
(IL)
1950-1955 New York Giants
(ML)
1955 Minneapolis Millers
(AA)
1956 Chicago Cubs
(ML)
1957 Los Angeles Angels
(PCL)
Winter Leagues:
1939 Newark Eagles Spring Training
(Daytona Beach, Florida)
1940-1941 San Juan Senadores (Puerto Rico)
1941-1942 San Juan Senadores (Puerto Rico)
1942 Newark Eagles Spring Training
(Virginia Union College - Richmond)
1944-1945 San Juan Senadores (Puerto Rico)
1945 Biz Mackey's Major League All Stars
(IND)
1945-1946 San Juan Senadores (Puerto Rican Winter League)
1946 Newark Eagles Spring Training
(Daytona Beach, Florida)
1946-1947 San Juan Senadores (Puerto Rico)
1946 Satchel Paige All Stars
(IND)
1946 Jackie Robinson's All Stars
(IND)
(West Coast Barnstorming Tour)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Bob Feller's All Stars)
1947-1948 Almendares
(Cuba)
1948-1949 Almendares
(Cuba)
(Cuban Winter League Champion)
(Caribbean World Series Champion)
1950 Luke Easter's All Stars
(IND)
(Series vs Danny Litwhiler's Major League All Stars)
1950 New York Giants Spring Training
(Phoenix, Arizona)
1952 Roy Campanella's All Stars
(IND)
1954 Roy Campanella's Negro Major League All Stars
(IND)
(West Coast Barnstorming Tour)
(Game vs Kent Parker's Major League All Stars –
Lane Field San Diego)
1955 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Negro American League All Stars)
1955 Major League All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming tour vs Negro American League All Stars)
1956 Willie Mays All Stars
(Barnstorming Tour vs Negro American League All Stars)
Puerto Rican League Doubles Leader: (1941-42 – 18 doubles)
187
Puerto Rican All Star Team (1941-42)
Negro National League Batting Title:
(1941- Hit .463 and 1946 - Hit .389)
Negro National League Home Run Title:
(1941 - Hit 6 HR & 1947 - Hit 14 HR)
Negro League All Star Team
(1941-East, 1946-East, 1947-East and 1948-East)
Mexican League Triple Crown
(1942)
(Hit - .397, 20 - Homeruns & 79 RBI's)
Puerto Rican League Homerun Leader: (1945-46 – 3 homeruns)
Puerto Rican League MVP
(1945-1946)
Cuban Winter League Homerun Title:
(1948-49 - 10 HR)
Cuban Winter League All Star Team
(1948-49)
National League RBI Title
(1951 - 121 RBI's)
New York Giants MVP
(1951)
American Association Batting Title
(1955 - Hit .352)
Major League Baseball Scout
New York Mets
(1967-1968)
Special Assistant to Commissioner of Baseball
(1968-1984)
New Jersey Sports Writers Association Voted Irvin –
"Greatest Athlete Ever in New Jersey"
Monte Irvin is in nine Hall-of-Fames that include:
Lincoln College Hall of Fame
Essex County Hall of Fame
Wiregrass Hall of Fame
New Jersey Sports Hall-of-Fame
International League Hall-of-Fame
New Jersey Sports Hall-of-Fame
(1970)
Alabama Sports Hall-of-Fame
Black Athletes Hall-of-Fame
(1974)
New Jersey Sports Writers Association
Mexican Baseball Hall-of-Fame
(1971)
Cuban Baseball Hall-of-Fame
(1997)
National Baseball Hall-of-Fame
Isley, Vance H.
1934-1936 Woods Chapel A.C.
1935-1937 North Carolina A & T
1937-1941 Goshen Red Wings
(1973)
(IND)
(College baseball)
(IND)
188
Israel, Clarence
(Pint)
(D)
Israel, Elbert
(Issy)
(D)
1941-1945 New York Black Bears
(IND)
1938 Rockville (MD) - Town Team
1939 Washington Royal Giants
(Ben Taylor - Manager)
1940-1942 Newark Eagles
1943-1945 U.S. Army (Military Service)
1946 Newark Eagles
1947 Homestead Grays
1951-1952 Bethesda Health Institute (Player-Manager)
(1951 – District Negro League Champions)
(IND)
(IND)
1947 Rockville (MD) (American Legion Team)
1947 Philadelphia Stars
1948-1950 Rockville (MD)
1950 Philadelphia Stars
1951 Rockville
(MD)
1952 Signed by Philadelphia Athletics(MLBB)
1952 Harrisburg Senators
(Interstate League)
1953 Savannah
(Sally League)
1953 Rockville (MD)
1954 Columbia
(Sally League)
1955 Injured - Did not play
1956 Abilene
(Big State League)
(.326 B.A., 12 HR and 72 RBI)
1956-1957 Columbia
(Sally League)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
Winter Leagues:
1954-55 Encontrados (Venezuelan League)
Interstate League Batting Title
(1952
- Hit .326)
(First African American to play in the Interstate League)
Ivory, James
(Sap)
1954-1955 Grand Rapids Black Sox
1955-1956 Stockham Valve Fitting Co.
1955-1957 Grand Rapids Black Sox
1957 San Francisco Giants Spring Training Camp
1957 Detroit Stars
1958-1962 Birmingham Black Barons
1963 Puebla
(Mexican League)
1963-1981 Stockham Valve Fitting Co.
(IND)
(BIL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(BIL)
(D)
Winter Leagues:
1959 Negro League All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour of Canada)
1962-63 Martinez de la Torre (Liga Invernal Veracruzana)
Birmingham Industrial League All Star Team: 1969 and
and numerous Years
Stockham Valve Fitting Co. - Most Valuable Player
Negro League All Star Team
(1965)
(1958 - East and 1960 - East)
189
Jackson, A.J.
1950-1955 Bordentown (New Jersey) (American Legion)
(Fireball, Shoebox)
1955 Signed by St. Louis Cardinals (ML)
1955 Albany - St. Louis Spring Training
1955 Released by St. Louis Cardinals
1956 Kansas City Monarchs
1956 Negro League All Stars
(Barnstormed vs Willie Mays All Stars)
1957 Sold to Cleveland Indians (MLBB)
1957 Cleveland Indians Spring Training
1957 Drafted into U.S. Army
1957 Baranquilla
(Colombia)
1958 Kansas City Monarchs
1959 Philadelphia Stars
1959-1975 Bordentown Mets (New Jersey)
(3½ years)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
Jackson, Al P.
1960’s Fort Lauderdale Braves
Fort Lauderdale Tigers
(IND)
(IND)
Jackson, Alvin
(Al, Jack)
1952-1955 Waco Cardinals
(IND)
Jasper Steers
(IND)
1954 Jasper Steers
(IND)
(Barnstorming tour of Canada)
1953-1954 Wiley College (Marshall, Texas)
Paul Quinn College (Waco, Texas)
1955 Signed by Pittsburgh Pirates (MLBB)
1955 Waco Pirates
(Big State League)
1956 Mexico City Tigers
(Mexican League)
1957 Columbus
(IL)
1957 Mexico City Tigers
(Mexican League)
1957-1958 Lincoln
(Western League)
1959 Pittsburgh Pirates
(ML)
1959-1961 Columbus
(IL)
1961 Pittsburgh Pirates
(ML)
1961 Selected by New York Mets in Expansion Draft
1962-1965 New York Mets
(ML)
1965 Traded to St. Louis Cardinals for Ken Boyer
1966-1967 St. Louis Cardinals
(ML)
1968-1969 New York Mets
(ML)
1969 Cincinnati Reds
(ML)
1970-1975 New York Mets (Roving Pitching Instructor)
1976 Marion
(Manager) (Appalachian League)
1976 New York Mets
(Minor League Pitching Instructor)
1977-1979 Boston Red Sox (Coach)
(ML)
1980 New York Mets
(Roving Pitching Instructor)
1981 Kinsport
(Manager)
1982 New York Mets
(Roving Pitching Instructor)
1983-1984 Tidewater
(Coach)
2000 New York Mets (Bull Pen and Assistant Pitching Coach)
Winter Leagues:
1959-60 Aguilas Cibaenas (Dominican League)
1960-61 Ponce Leones
(Puerto Rico)
1961-62 Ponce Leones
(Puerto Rico)
Jackson, Amos
late 1940’s through 1950’s
Miami Red Sox
(IND)
190
Fort Lauderdale Braves
Deerfield Beach Cardinals
Del Ray Beach All Stars
Pompano Beach Red Caps
Boca Raton Braves
West Palm Beach Rockets
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
West Palm Beach Rockets
(Florida International Negro League)
Jackson, C.H.
1949-1958 Picayune Black Sox
Jackson, Harold
1950 Bracketville (Texas)
1951 Q.I. All Stars
1951-1952 San Antonio Ramblers
1953-1957 San Antonio Indians
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(STNL)
Jackson, James L.
1946-1948 East Point Bears
(IND)
1946-1948 Fairburn Cubs
(IND)
1946-1948 Homebrew Braves
(IND)
1948-1949 East Point Bears
(IND)
1950-1953 East Point Bears (Branch Rickey League)
1954 East Point Bears
(Branch Rickey League Champions)
1954 East Point Bears
(Georgia State Champions)
1954 Turned down contract offer Philadelphia Phillies
1955 Turned down contract offer St. Louis Cardinals
1955-1969 East Point Bears (Branch Rickey League)
Jackson, James V.
1961-1964 Graham High School (High school baseball)
1965-1980 Graham Junk Yard Dogs
(IND)
Jackson, Johnny
1974-1980 Warrior A’s
1980 Titusville Royals
(BIL)
(BIL)
Jackson, Joseph
(Shoeless Joe)
1937 Ethiopian Clowns
(IND)
1938-1943 Pepsi Cola Giants
(IND)
St. Petersburg Black Pelicans
Cocoa Black Indians
(IND)
1943-1946 U.S. Army
1947-1949 Cocoa Black Indians
(IND)
Cocoa Beach Black Indians
(FSNL)
1949 Florida Normal College
(College Baseball)
1949-1951 Bethune-Cookman College
(College Baseball)
19501953 Daytona Black Cats
(IND)
1954-1958 Pepsi Cola Giants
(FSNL)
1959-1963 Pepsi Cola Giants
(IND)
Jackson, John W.
(Stony, Loopie)
1940's Lumberton (Mississippi)
1948 Hattiesburg Black Sox (MS)
1948-1951 Southern University Jaguars
1949 Picayune Black Sox
(Picayune, Mississippi)
1949-1950 Hardwood Sports
(St. Francisville, Louisiana)
1951-1953 Kansas City Monarchs
1953 Signed by Cincinnati Reds (MLBB)
1953 Tulsa
(Texas League)
(College baseball)
(IND)
(IND)
(NAL)
191
(Did not play w/Tulsa because Shreveport was part of
league would not allow black players in their stadium)
1953-1955 Columbia (Sally League)
Negro League All Star Team
Jackson, Martinez
(D)
(1952-West and 1953-West)
1929 Homestead Grays
1929-1935 Newark Eagles
1936-1938 Newark Eagles
(ANL)
(IND)
(NNL)
(father of Reggie Jackson)
Jackson, Michael
Jackson, Robert A.
(Eddie)
1968-2000 Connor Steel
Sloss Eagles
East Thomas Eagles
Leeds Pirates
1938-1941 Unionville High School (PA)
(High School baseball)
1938-1941 Unionville (PA)
(Town Team)
London Grove (PA) (Town Team)
1942-1959 Kennett Square Grey Sox
Coatsville (PA)
West Chester (PA)
1942-1959 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(Kennett Square Community League)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(IND)
Kennett Square Baseball Hall of Fame (1981)
Jackson, Roosevelt
early 1930’s to late 1970’s
Player
Manager
Jackson, Roosevelt Jr.
Jackson, Samuel E.
(Sam)
Florida Clowns
Ft. Lauderdale Grey Sox
Buffalo Red Sox
Cuban Giants
Ft. Lauderdale Lucky Stars
Hollywood Red Birds (early
Miami Globetrotters
Ft. Lauderdale Dodgers
Dania Beach Dodgers
Boyton Rams
Belle Glade Red Birds
(1930’s)
(1941-1942)
1940’s)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(FSNL)
(IND)
(1948)
Dania Beach Dodgers
Ft. Lauderdale Florida Braves (1955-1958)
Pompano Beach Yankees
(1964)
1955-1958 Fort Lauderdale Florida Braves(Bat Boy)
1948-1950 Tuscaloosa Red Sox
(Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
1951 Nap Wines (Cleveland, Ohio)
1951-1952 Philadelphia Stars
1953 Philadelphia Stars
1953 Park Hill Lumber (Cleveland Class A League)
(Cleveland, Ohio)
1954-1963 Numerous Semipro and City League Teams –
Cleveland area
(IND)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
192
Nap Wines
White Chevrolet
Rosen bloom
1956-1957 Mansfield Merchants
Jackson, Thomas
(D)
(Ohio Valley League)
1946 Cleveland Clippers
1946 Brooklyn Brown Dodgers
1946-1954 Birmingham Black Barons
Louisville Colonels
(USL)
(USL)
(NAL)
(NSL)
Jackson, Thomas Walton
(Jack)
1924-1927 St. Louis Stars
1927-1928 Memphis Red Sox
(D)
1928 Cleveland Tigers
1928-1929 Nashville Elite Giants
1931 Louisville White Sox
Jackson, Vernell
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NSL)
(NNL)
1945 Madison (IL)
(Coached by Josh Johnson)
1946-1948 Dunbar High School
1948-1951 St. Augustine College (North Carolina)
(CIAA)
(Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association)
1946-1948 East St. Louis Colts
(Tandy League)
1949 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
1949 Goose Curry Baseball School
(Greenville, Mississippi)
1950-1951 Memphis Red Sox
(NAL)
1951 New Orleans-Houston Eagles
(NAL)
1951 Signed by Boston Red Sox (MLBB)
1951 Sacramento
(PCL)
1952-1954 U.S. Marine Corp (Korean War - Wounded)
1955 Tri City A.C.
(IND)
1955-1971 Madison (Manager)
1972-2000 Umpire - Semipro Level
(Worked 48 of 50 State National Baseball Congress
Tournaments)
Winter Leagues:
1949 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming series vs Bob Feller's All Stars)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Hal Newhouser's All Stars)
Negro League All Star Team
Jackson, Willie C.
(W.C.)
1949-1958 Picayune Black Sox
James, Augustus
1957-1976 Fairfield Stars
1976—2015 Buck Village Stars
(1950)
(IND)
(Manager)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(also played college ball at Miles College)
James, Levy Jr.
1963 St. Phillips College (San Antonio, Texas)
1963-1967 San Antonio Black Sox
1967-1969 Texas Southern University
(Three year college baseball)
(STNL)
193
1968-1973 San Antonio Black Sox
Denver Heights Bears
Jeffcoat, Al
Jelks, Osibee
1947-1950 Hampton High School (Leesville, SC)
1947-1950 Leesville Cubs
1950-1952 South Carolina State College
(Orangeburg, SC)
1952 Ed Hamman's Baseball School
1952 St. Paul (MN)
1952-1955 Indianapolis Clowns
1952-1955 New York Black Yankees
1956 Indianapolis Clowns
1956 New York Black Yankees
(STNL)
(STNL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Umpire
1951 New Orleans Recreation Department (Umpire)
1951-1953 U.S. Army (Korea)
1953-1955 New Orleans Recreation Department
(Recreation Supervisor and Umpire)
1955 Willie Mays All Stars
(Barnstorming Tour – Umpire)
(Alex Pompez – Promoter)
1956 Provincial League (Canada) (Class C)
1957-1958 New York-Penn League
1959-1960 Northwest League
1961-1967 Pacific Coast League (Umpire – Crew Chief)
1968 Grapefruit League
1968 Pacific Coast League
1968 Retired after 1968 season
(IND)
Winter Leagues:
1962-63
1963-64
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
Jenkins, Bobby
Jenkins, Clarence
(Full Bosom)
Dominican League
Dominican League
Puerto Rican League
Puerto Rican League
Puerto Rican League
1935 Sasser (Georgia)
(Town Team))
1936-1944 Cocoa Beach (Florida)
1944 Titusville Ramblers
1944-1946 U.S. Army (Military Baseball)
3588th Quarter Master Corps
1947-1949 Cocoa Black Indians
Orlando All Stars
1948 Newark Eagles
1948-1949 Cocoa Black Indians
Orlando All Stars
1950-1953 Daytona Black Cats
1942-1946 Verona Blue Jays (MS)
Tupelo Tigers
(MS)
1946-1947 Memphis Red Sox
1948 Eight Mile Road Eagles
1949-1963 Detroit Eagles
Eight Mile Road Eagles
(IND)
(IND)
(FSNL)
(FSNL)
(NNL)
(FSNL)
(FSNL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
194
Jenkins, Daniel
(Lefty)
1943-1946 U.S. Army
(Military Baseball - South Pacific)
1946-1947 Durham Eagles
1948 Oxford Braves
(Granville County League)
1949 Jacksonville Eagles
1949 Jacksonville Eagles
(Grapefruit League)
1950-1951 Indian Head Rockets
Saskatchewan Rockets
1952 Durham Rams
(NCL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Winter Leagues:
1949 Jacksonville Eagles
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Jackie Robinson's All Stars)
Jenkins, James
(Pee Wee)
1942-1943 Farmville (VA) (Town Team)
1944 Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1945 Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1946-1948 New York Cubans
(NNL)
1949-1950 New York Cubans
(NAL)
1951 Three Rivers
(Canadian Provincial League)
1951 Winnipeg Buffaloes (Mandak League)
1952 Brandon Greys
(Mandak League)
1952 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
1952 Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1953 Brandon Greys
(Mandak League)
1954 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
Winter Leagues:
1947 New York Cubans
(Negro National League Champions)
(Negro League World Series Champions)
(Defeated the Cleveland Buckeyes)
1949 Jackie Robinson All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs New Orleans Creoles)
1950 Luke Easter's All Stars
(IND)
(Series vs Danny Lithwhiler's Major League All Stars)
1953 Negro League All Stars
(IND)
(Tour vs Jackie Robinson Major League All Stars)
Jenkins, Robert
Jensen, Sue
(Sunny the Clown)
Jessup, Gentry
(Jeep)
1960-1961 St. Petersburg Black Pelicans
1961 Indianapolis Clowns
1962-1963 Tampa (Semipro Football)
1963-1966 St. Petersburg Braves
1970-1974 St. Petersburg
Oliver Alouettes
(FWCNL)
(IND)
(FWCNL)
(Entertainer)
1986-1987 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1939 Bellville Grays
(Portsmouth, Virginia)
1939 Bellville Grays
1940 Bellville Grays
1940 Birmingham Black Barons
(NIL)
(ECL)
(ISL)
(NAL)
195
(D)
1941-1949 Chicago American Giants
1950-1952 Carmen Cardinals
(Mandak League)
Winter Leagues:
1943 Birmingham Black Barons
(On loan - Chicago American Giants)
(Negro League World Series vs Homestead Grays)
1945-46 Santurce
(Puerto Rico)
1946 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(Barnstorming Tour vs Bob Fellers All Stars)
1946-47 Almendares
(Cuban Winter League)
1948-49 Magallanes
(Venezuelan League)
1949 Kansas City Royals
(California)
1950-51 Spur Cola
(Panama)
1951 Spur Cola
(Caribbean World Series)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
9th Annual North–South All Star Game (1947-South)
Negro League All Star Team:
(1944-West, 1945-West, 1946-West, 1947-West and 1948-West)
Jethroe, Sam
(Jet)
1938 Indianapolis ABC's
(NAL)
1938-1942 Numerous Semipro Teams
East St. Louis Colts
St. Louis Giants
1941 St. Louis Giants (St. Louis Municipal League)
1942 Cincinnati Buckeyes
(NAL)
1943-1948 Cleveland Buckeyes
(NAL)
1945 Tryout with Boston Red Sox w/Jackie Robinson
and Marvin Williams
1946 Vargas (Venezuelan League Champions)
1948 Sold by Ernest Wright, owner of the Cleveland Buckeyes
to the Brooklyn Dodgers (MLBB) for $5,000
1948-1949 Montreal Royals (IL)
1950 Sold by the Dodgers to the Boston Braves $ 100,000
1950-1952 Boston Braves
(ML)
1953 Toledo
(IL)
1954 Pittsburgh Pirates
(ML)
1954-1958 Toronto
(IL)
Winter Leagues:
1942 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
1944-45 Kansas City Royals
(CAWL)
1944-45 San Juan
(Puerto Rico)
1945 American All Stars
1946 Vargas
(Venezuela)
1946 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
(Eighteen Game Series vs Bob Feller's Major League
All Stars)
1946-47 Vargas
(Venezuela)
1946-47 San Juan
(Puerto Rico)
1947 Cleveland Buckeyes
(Negro League World Series - lost to New York Cubans)
1947-48 Almendares
(Cuba)
1948-49 Almendares
(Cuba)
(Cuban Winter League Champion)
(Caribbean World Series Champion)
196
1949 Almendares - Cuba
Caribbean World Series I
Caribbean World Series Champions
(Havana, Cuba)
1949 Montreal Royals-Junior World Series
(Defeated Buffalo for Junior Crown)
1950 Boston Braves Spring Training
(Bradenton, Florida)
1951 Kansas City Royals
1952 Jackie Robinson's Major League All Stars
(Barnstorming tour vs the Negro League Stars)
1954-55 Cienfuegos
(Cuba)
St. Louis Municipal League All Star Team
(IND)
(IND)
(1941 - East)
Negro American League Batting Titles:
(1944 - .353
and
1945 - .393)
Negro
(1945
(1946
(1947
League Stolen Bases Title:
- 21 Stolen Bases)
- 20 Stolen Bases)
- 52 Stolen Bases)
Negro League All Star Team:
(1942-West, 1944-West, 1946-West and 1947-West)
Puerto Rican League Triples Leader: (1944-45 – 7 triples)
Puerto Rican League Runs Scored Leader:
(1944-45 – 37 runs scored)
Cuban Winter League All Star Team
(1947-48)
Venezuelan League Triples Leader (1946 – 5 triples)
Venezuelan League Stolen Bases Leader (1946 – 11 SB)
Cuban Winter League Stolen Base Title:
(1947-48 - 22 Stolen Bases)
(1948-49 - 32 Stolen Bases)
International League Stolen Base Title:
(1949 - 89 Stolen Bases)
Major League Baseball - National League Rookie of the Year
(1950)
National League Stolen Base Title:
(1950 - Stole 35 Bases)
(1951 - Stole 35 Bases)
Johnson, Andrew
1941-1945 Booker T. Washington H.S.
(High school football & track)
1945-1947 Dallas Chesterfields
West Dallas
1948-1961 Dallas Brown Bombers
(Willie Richardson - Owner)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
197
1951 Dallas Eagles Tryout (Texas League)
1962 Dallas Rough Riders
(Sponsored by Big Wheel Company)
1962-1973 Dallas Bombers
Dallas Rough Riders
(Various Dallas city leagues)
Johnson, Blazer
1946 Toledo Rays
(USL)
(Assumed name used by Ron Teasley to protect his college
eligibility)
Johnson, Byron E.
(Mex)
(D)
1929 Gibbs High School (Little Rock, Arkansas)
1929-1931 Dunbar High School (Little Rock, Arkansas)
(Quarterback – High School Football)
(Won state championship)
1930-1936 Du Bisson Tigers
(IND)
(Semipro Team - Little Rock, AR)
1931-1932 Dunbar Junior College (Little Rock, Arkansas)
1932 Little Rock Black Travelers
1933 Little Rock Stars
(NSL)
1932 Little Rock Black Travelers
(IND)
1932 Little Rock Grays
(NSL)
1933 Memphis Red Sox
(NAL)
(Turned down contract offer)
1933-1936 Wylie College (College Baseball and Football)
(Marshall, Texas)
1936 Little Rock Stars
(IND)
1937-1938 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1939-1940 Kansas City Travelers
(Kansas City Monarch's "B" Team)
1939-1940 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
1943-1944 U.S. Army (Quarter Masters Corp.)
Negro League All Star Team (1938-West)
Johnson, Charles
(Goulash)
(D)
1928-1929 Joe Green's Chicago Giants
(IND)
Illinois Giants
(IND)
1930-1931 Texas Giants
(IND)
(Barnstorming team based - Lafleche, Saskatchewan)
1931 New York Stars
(IND)
(Traveling team of Texas Giants)
1932 All-Nations Clowns
(Abe Saperstein's first Negro barnstorming team)
(Disbanded in Winona, Minnesota)
1932 Joe Green's Chicago Giants
(IND)
(Series vs House of David)
1933-1934 Cole's American Giants
(NNL)
1935 Chicago American Giants
(NNL)
1936 Chicago American Giants
(IND)
1937-1941 Chicago American Giants
(NAL)
also played for: Peter's Union Giants
Illinois Giants
Hartford Giants
Chicago Giants
Nashville Elite Giants
198
Johnson, Clifford
(Connie)
(D)
1938-1939 Stone Mountain (Georgia) (Town Team)
1940 Atlanta Black Crackers
(NSL)
1940 Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords
(NAL)
1940-1942 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1943-1945 U.S. Army - Military Service
1946-1950 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1951 St. Hyacinthe
(Canadian Provincial League)
1951-1952 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1952 Sold by Tom Baird (owner) of the Kansas City Monarchs
to the Baltimore Orioles (MLBB) organization
1952 Colorado Springs
(Western League)
1953 Charleston
(AA)
1953 Chicago White Sox
(ML)
1954 Toronto Maple Leafs
(IL)
1955 Toronto
(IL)
1955-1956 Chicago White Sox
(ML)
1956-1958 Baltimore Orioles
(ML)
1959-1960 Vancouver
(PCL)
1961 Puebla
(Mexican League)
Winter Leagues:
1941 Kansas City Monarchs
(Negro American League Champions)
1942 Kansas City Monarchs
(Negro American League Champions)
1946 Kansas City Monarchs
(Negro American League Champions)
1950 Kansas City Royals
(IND)
1950 Panama City Chesterfields Club (Panama Winter League)
1950-1951 Spur Cola
(Panama Winter League)
1951 Kansas City Royals
(IND)
1951 Spur Cola
(Panama)
(Caribbean World Series - Caracas, Venezuela)
1952 Kansas City Royals
(IND)
1952 Roy Campanella All Stars
(IND)
1952-53 Caguas Criollos (Puerto Rico)
1953 Roy Campanella All Stars
(IND)
(Southern tour - Seven game series vs Birmingham
Black Barons)
(Game vs Major League All Stars Wrigley Field,
Los Angeles, Ca)
1954 Roy Campanella All Stars
(IND)
1953-1954 Caguas
(Puerto Rico)
1954 Roy Campanella All Stars
(IND)
1954-1955 Marianao
(Cuba)
1955 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Negro American League All Stars)
1956 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Negro American League All Stars)
1957 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
(United States barnstorming tour)
(Caribbean barnstorming tour – Dominican Republic,
Nicaragua, etc.)
1959 Hank Aaron's All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming series vs Harmon Killebrew's All Stars)
1960 Philadelphia Stars
(IND)
199
(Canadian Tournaments)
Negro League All Star Team (1940-West and 1950-West)
Canadian Provincial League Strikeout Leader:
(1951 - 172 SO)
Western League Strikeout Leader:
(1952 - 233 Strikeouts)
Cuban Winter League Strikeout Leader:
(1954-55 - 123 Strikeouts)
Cuban Winter League All Star Team
Johnson, Clifford
(Cliff)
(1954-55)
1964-1966 San Antonio Black Sox
(STNL)
1966 San Antonio Bombers
(Spanish American League)
1966 Drafted by Houston Astros in fifth round of
Free Agent Draft
1967 Cocoa
(Florida State League)
1967 Covington
(Appalachian League)
1968 Cocoa
(Florida State League)
1969 Peninsula
(Carolina League)
1970 Raleigh-Durham
(Carolina League)
1970-1971 Oklahoma City
(AA)
1971-1972 Columbus
(Southern League)
1972 Oklahoma City
(AA)
1972 Houston Astros
(ML)
1973 Denver
(AA)
1973-1977 Houston Astros
(ML)
1977-1979 New York Yankees
(ML)
1979-1980 Cleveland Indians
(ML)
1980 Chicago Cubs
(ML)
1981-1982 Oakland A's
(ML)
1983-1984 Toronto Blue Jays
(ML)
1985 Texas Rangers
(ML)
1985-1986 Toronto Blue Jays
(ML)
Winter League:
1977 New York Yankees - World Series
1978 New York Yankees - World Series
1981 Oakland A's American League Championship Series
1985 Toronto Blue Jays -American League Championship Series
Carolina League Homerun and RBI Titles:
(1970 - Hit 27 Homeruns and 91 RBIs)
Carolina League Most Valuable Player Award (1970)
American Association League Homerun and RBI Titles:
(1973 - Hit 33 Homeruns and 117 RBIs)
American Association League Most Valuable Player Award
(1973)
Major League Baseball Career Pinch Hit Homerun Record
(20 homeruns)
200
Johnson, Curtis
(Colt)
(D)
Johnson, Don
(Groundhog)
1947-1948 St. Rose (Louisiana)
1948-1950 Kenner White Sox
1950 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1950-1951 Carrollton Play House
1951 Booker T. Washington High School
(State Baseball Champions)
1952-1953 Grambling University (College Baseball)
1954 Paris Lakers
(Mississippi-Ohio Valley League)
1957 Signed by the New York Yankees (MLBB)
1957 St. Petersburg Saints (Florida State League)
1958-1959 Fargo-Moorhead Twins (Northern League)
1959 released by New York Yankees
1960 Detroit-New Orleans Stars
(NAL)
1960-1963 Collins All Stars
(IND)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
1964-1965 Garyville
(Louisiana)
1946-1949 Cincinnati Hottentots
1947 Signed by Cincinnati Reds (MLBB)
1947 Cincinnati Reds Spring Training
(Columbia, South Carolina)
1947 Ogden
(Pioneer League)
1947 Released by Cincinnati Reds
1947 Signed by Cleveland Indians (MLBB)
1947 Burlington
(IA)
1949-1950 Chicago American Giants
1951-1952 Chicago American Giants
1952 Philadelphia Stars
1953 Baltimore Elite Giants
1954 Detroit Stars
1954-1980 Cincinnati Tigers
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(IND)
Coach - Major Women's Softball (17 seasons)
Overall Record 1,500 - 68
1968 Escue Pontiac (Cincinnati, Ohio)
ASA - National Championship
1972 Riverside Ford (York, PA)
ASA - National Championship
1973 Sweeney Chevrolet (Chattanooga, TN)
ASA - National Championship
1976 Sweeney Chevrolet (Petersburg, VA)
USSSA - World Championship
Hudepohl Hall of Fame
Tri State Hall of Fame
Johnson, Earnest D.
(School Boy)
(1996)
1946-1947 Chicago Industrial League
1947-1948 Van Dyke House of David
(IND)
1949 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1949 Van Dyke House of David
(IND)
1950-1953 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1953 Sold by Tom Baird (owner) of the Kansas City Monarchs
to the St. Louis Browns (MLBB) organization
1954 Thetford Mines
(Canadian Provincial League)
201
(Bill Krueger - Manager)
1954 Injured Knee - Released by Browns
1955 Signed by Chicago Cubs (MLBB)
1955 Macon
(Sally League)
(Pepper Martin - Manager)
1955 Magic Valley
(Pioneer League)
1956-1957 Des Moines
(Western League)
1957 Portland Beavers
(PCL)
(Spring Training - sent down)
1958 Sioux City
(Western League)
1959 Charleston
(Sally League)
Negro American League Homerun Title (1953 - 11 Homeruns)
Negro League All Star Team (1953-West)
Johnson, Eliga
(Pete)
1932-1941 Pittsburg
1942 New York Black
1942-1943 Pittsburg
1943-1946 U.S. Army
1946-1950 Pittsburg
Panthers
Yankees
Panthers
(IND)
(NNL)
(IND)
Panthers
(IND)
Johnson, Elijah
1959-1961 San Antonio Bombers
(STNL)
San Antonio Ramblers
(IND)
1961 Signed by Houston Colt 45's (MLBB)
1962 Moultrie
(Georgia-Florida League)
1963-1964 Modesto
(California League)
1965 Durham
(Carolina League)
1965 Salisbury
(Carolina League)
1966 Amarillo
(Texas League)
1967 Oklahoma City
(PCL)
Amarillo
(Texas League)
1968 Traded by Houston w/Mike Cuellar to Baltimore Orioles
1968 Oklahoma City
(PCL)
1969-1970 Rochester
(IL)
1971 Kintetsu Buffaloes (Japanese League)
1972 Oklahoma City
(AA)
(Player-Coach)
Johnson, Eugene
(Sugarfoot)
1950-1952 Webster Groves High School
(High school baseball & basketball)
1950-1952 Kirkwood Hawks
(Arthur Hawkins - Manager)
1951-1952 Cleveland Indians Tryout
St. Louis Browns Tryout
1953 Wiley College
(College Baseball)
(Marshall, Texas)
1954-1957 Grand Bluff (TX)
1959 Baltimore Elites
1959 Brooklyn Cuban Giants
(Brady Johnson - Manager)
(D)
(Baseball)
(IND)
(IND)
(NNBA)
(IND)
1953-1957 Wiley College (College Basketball - Scholarship)
(Marshall, Texas)
1957 Signed by St. Louis Hawks
(NBA)
1957 St. Louis Hawks Training Camp
1957 Cut by St. Louis Hawks
202
(Basketball)
Johnson, Floyd
Johnson, Gene
1957-1958 Harlem Magicians
(Barnstorming Basketball Team)
(Marques Haynes - Owner & Player)
(Record 218-0)
1958-1959 Harlem Magicians
(Record 243-0)
1959-1960 Harlem Magicians
(Record 218-3)
1960 Harlem Clowns
(Barnstorming Basketball Team)
1962-1963 Harlem Magicians
(Record 247-0)
1963-1997 Harlem Magicians
Harlem Clowns
Harlem Stars
Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem Court Jesters
St. Louis Jokers
Goose Tatum's Road Kings
Fabulous Magicians
1969-1970 Fabulous Magicians
1972-1976 Harlem Thrillers
(Art "Bones" Smith - owner)
1980-1982 Irondale Cubs
1983-1984 Irvindale Braves
1985-2011 Hooper City White Sox
(D)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(BIL)
1953-1956 U. S. Marines (Special Services - Military BB)
(Barstow, California)
1956 Detroit Cadillac Club
(DBF)
(Detroit Baseball Federation)
1956-1957 Detroit Stars
(NAL)
1958-1960 Detroit Cadillac Club
(DBF)
1961 UAW Local 600 (Detroit, Michigan)
(Sponsored by Ford Motor Company)
(Charles “Red” House – Manager)
Negro League All Star Team
Johnson, George
(Slack)
(IND)
(1956 - East)
1948-1951 Holsum Dodgers
(NORD)
Holsum All Stars
(NBC - Wichita Tournaments)
Broadway Stars
1951 New Orleans Black Pelicans
(NSL)
1952-1957 Grambling Tigers
(College Baseball)
1952 Shreveport Black Sports
(IND)
1953-1955 United States Air Force (Military Baseball)
(41 st Squadron)
1956-1957 Jasper Steers
(NBC - Wichita Tournament)
1956-1959 Holsum Dodgers
(NORD)
1960 Detroit-New Orleans Stars
(NAL)
1960 Raleigh Tigers
(NAL)
1972-1974 Arcadia High School (Coach)
(Arcadia, Louisiana)
203
Johnson, Howard
(Mule)
1936-1954 Pilot Point (TX)
Dallas Green Monarchs
Gainesville Black Tigers
Johnson, Rev. Johnny 1935-1938 San Antonio Black Missions
Austin Black Senators
1939-1944 San Antonio Black Sox
1945-1955 San Antonio Black Sox
Johnson, Josh
(Brute)
(D)
Johnson, Keenan
(TNL)
(TNL)
(IND)
(STNL)
1931-1932 Coraopolis Greys
(IND)
1933-1934 Pittsburgh Giants
(Farm team of Homestead Grays & Pittsburgh Crawfords)
1934-1935 Homestead Grays
(NNL)
1935 Pittsburgh Giants
1935 New Kensington Elks
1935-1936 Cincinnati Tigers
(IND)
1937 Cincinnati Tigers
(NAL)
1938 New York Black Yankees
(NNL)
1938 Homestead Grays
(NNL)
1939 Brooklyn Royal Giants
(IND)
1939-1942 Homestead Grays
(NNL)
1942 New York Black Yankees
(NNL)
1942 Negro League All Star Team
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour New York area)
1942-1945 U.S. Army (Military Service)
1949-1954 St. Louis Metro All Stars
(Manager)
1974-1978 Hallandale (sand lot teams)(Florida)
1974-1978 Hallandale High School
(High school baseball, basketball and football)
1978-1980 U.S. Army (Military basketball)
1981-1982 Hallandale (sand lot teams)
1983-2011 Hallandale Dodgers
(IND)
Hallandale Dodgers (Manager)
(South Florida Community Baseball League)
Professional Football Coach – Wide Receivers and QB
2010 South Florida Broncos (Southeast Football League)
2011 Broward County Cowboys (semipro football)
Johnson, Lawrence
(Dittney)
1960-1964 San Antonio Bombers
(STNL)
1965 St. Phillips College (College Baseball & Basketball)
1966-1967 University of Albuquerque
(College Baseball & Basketball)
1967 Scouted by Los Angeles Dodgers (MLBB)
1968-1970 U.S. Army
(Military Baseball)
1972-1979 San Antonio Black Sox
(STNL)
(Last Manager of Black Sox)
Johnson, Louis Brown 1947-1949 Lexington Hustlers
(IND)
(Sweet Lou)
1951-1953 Kentucky State College
(College Basketball Scholarship)
1953 Signed by the New York Yankees(MLBB) Organization
1953 Olean
(Pony League)
1954 Lexington
(Mountain States League)
204
1954 Pampa
(West Texas - New Mexico League)
1955 Clifton
(Mississippi-Ohio Valley League)
1955 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1955 Sold by Tom Baird (owner) Monarchs to Chicago Cubs
1955 St. Jean
(Canadian Provincial League)
1956 Ponca City
(Sooner State League)
1957-1958 Burlington (Three I League)
1958 Paris
(Midwest League)
1959 Lancaster
(Eastern League)
1959 San Antonio
(Texas League)
1960 Chicago Cubs
(ML)
1960 Houston
(AA)
1961 Los Angles Angels
(ML)
1961 Toronto
(IL)
1962 Milwaukee Braves
(ML)
1962 Toronto
(IL)
1963 Denver
(PCL)
1963 Toronto
(IL)
1963 Syracuse
(IL)
1964 Spokane
(PCL)
1965 Los Angeles Dodgers
(ML)
1965 Spokane
(PCL)
1966-1967 Los Angeles Dodgers
(ML)
1968 Chicago Cubs
(ML)
1968 Cleveland Indians
(ML)
1969 California Angels
(ML)
Winter Leagues:
1961-62 Valencia (Venezuelan League)
1963-64 Occidental League
1963-64 Panama League
1964-65 Santurce Crabbers (Puerto Rican Winter League)
Negro League All Star Team
(1955-West)
Venezuelan League Triples Leader (1961-62 – 7 triples)
Venezuelan League Slugging Average Leader (1961-62 - .559)
International League All Star Team (1963 and 1964)
Puerto Rican Winter League Batting Title
(1964-65 - Hit .345)
Johnson, Mamie
(Peanut)
1944-1946 Long Branch (NJ) (Police Athletic League)
1946-1951 Lincoln A.C.
St. Cyprian Baseball Team
1951-1953 Alexandria All Stars
(IND)
1954 Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1955-1962 Alexandria All Stars
(IND)
(1 of 3 women to play in Negro Leagues)
Johnson, M.C.
1952-1962 Chicago Majors
Chicago Cardinals
Chicago Orioles
1963-1964 Kansas City Monarchs
(IND)
205
1965 Chicago Cardinals
1966-1982 Chicago Orioles (Chicago Park League)
Chicago Orioles (Greater Midwest League)
also attended University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Johnson, Ralph
(Big Cat)
(D)
1941-1942 Panama City Blue Sox
1942 Ethiopian Clowns
1942 Miami Giants
1943-1944 Lakeland Tigers
1945-1946 Panama City
1946 Lakeland Tigers
1946-1947 Pepsi Cola Giants
(Tampa, Florida)
1947-1948 Santo Domingo
(Dominican Republic)
1949-1950 Birmingham Black Barons
1950 New Orleans Creoles
1950 Indianapolis Clowns
1950 New York Black Yankees
1951 New York Cubans
1951 Kansas City Monarchs
(Monarchs Barnstorming "B" Team)
1952 Kansas City Monarchs
1953-1954 Kansas City Monarchs
(Monarchs Barnstorming "B" Team)
1954-1957 Miami Giants
1958-1962 7-Up Giants (Tampa, FL)
Winter Leagues:
1952 Jackie Robinson All Stars
(Barnstorming Tour vs Indianapolis Clowns)
Negro League All Star Team
(IND)
(FSNL)
(FSNL)
(FSNL)
(FSNL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(NSL)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
(1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 & 1954)
Johnson, Ralph G.
1958-1960 Marshall High School
(High School baseball)
(Plant City, Florida)
1958-1962 Bartow All Stars
(FWCNL)
(Ben Williams - Owner/Manager)
1963 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1963 Montreal Mets
(Canadian Provincial League)
1963-1966 Bartow All Stars
(FWCNL)
Johnson, Raymond A.
1958-1962 San Antonio Bombers
Johnson, Robert
(Bob)
1953-1957 Wenonah
1958 Moore-Handley
1960 Southern Research
(STNL)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(BIL)
Birmingham Industrial League All Star Team:
(1958 – Western Division)
YMCA Industrial League: (1960)
Johnson, Thomas Fairfax
1933-1936 Camden High School
(Tom)
(Baseball, Football & Track)
1937-1940 Springfield College Maroons
(College Baseball, Football & Track)
206
1940 Philadelphia Stars
(NNL)
1940-1942 New York Brown Bombers
(Quarterback-Semipro Football Team)
1942 College All Stars
(All Star Football game @ Polo Grounds vs New York
Bulldogs)
(Coach Benny Friedman - Univ. Mich.)
1942-1943 Fort Custer & Camp Atterbury
(Army-Navy YMCA-USO)
(Baseball Coach - Military)
1944-1946 Hawaiian Tigers
(Hawaiian Senior League)
1946-1951 Howard University
(Assistant Football Coach - Backs)
1947-1959 Howard University
(Head Varsity Baseball Coach)
1948 Diplomats All Stars
(IND)
1950 Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1950 Brandon Greys
(Mandak League)
1952 Heurich Brewers
(Washington, D.C. – Industrial Sandlot League)
1960-1968 Washington Black Sox (Player-Coach)
(TSL)
(8 time league champions)
1963 Cleveland Indians
(ML)
(Batting Practice Pitcher - Washington, D.C.)
1963-1968 Washington Black Sox
(TSL)
Major League Baseball Scout:
Pittsburgh Pirates
(1959-1961)
Washington D.C. Home Plate Club Hall of Fame
(1981)
(Footnote: From 1946-1978 Dr. Thomas Johnson is one of the
leading college educators in the United States. His
contributions to Howard University and higher education
are too numerous to cite here.)
Johnson, Tom
1940-1943 Detroit Black Sox
Detroit Motor City Giants
(IND)
(IND)
(Assumed name used by Ron Teasley)
Johnson, Walter
1942-1943 Dolphin A.C. (Baltimore, Maryland)
1942 Richmond Giants
1944-1945 Memphis Red Sox
1945-1946 U.S. Navy
(Military Baseball)
1946-1947 Richmond Giants
1948-1949 Richmond Giants
1949 Homestead Grays
1949-1950 Homestead Grays
1951-1954 U.S. Navy
(Military Baseball)
1955 Signed by Kansas City A's (MLBB)
1955 Burlington (VT)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NAA)
(NAA)
(IND)
Winter Leagues:
1946 Panama
1947 Caracas (Venezuela)
207
Johnson, Will
1972-2015 Hooper City White Sox
Johnson, William Julius
(Judy)
1915-1916 Rosedale Club (Wilmington, Delaware)
Wilmington Blues
1917 Chester Stars
Chester Giants
(Chester, Pennsylvania)
(D)
1918 Hilldale Giants
(Darby, Pennsylvania)
1918 Bacharach Giants
1919-1920 Madison Stars
1921-1922 Hilldale Daisies
1923-1925 Hilldale Daisies
1926 Hilldale Daisies
1926-1927 Hilldale Daisies
1927 Hilldale Daisies
1928 Hilldale Daisies
1929 Hilldale Daisies
1929 Hilldale Daisies
1930 Homestead Grays
1931 Baltimore Black Sox
1931-1932 Darby Daisies
1932 Hilldale Daisies
1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords
1933-1936 Pittsburgh Crawfords
1937 Homestead Grays
(Johnson did not report)
1937 ALCOA Flashes
(Coach)
1954 Philadelphia Athletics (Coach)
(BIL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(ECL)
(ISL)
(ECL)
(ESL)
(ECL)
(ANL)
(IND)
(NNL)
(IND)
(EWL)
(EWL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
Winter Leagues:
1923 Hilldale Daisies
(Nine game barnstorming series vs Major League All
Stars. Hilldale Daisies won 7 games and lost 2)
1923-1924 Cuba
1924 Hilldale Daisies
(Eastern Colored League Champions)
(Negro League World Series vs Kansas City Monarchs –
Negro National League Champions. Monarchs won series
1924 Hilldale Daisies
(Three game series vs World Champion Philadelphia A's.
Daisies won series 3 games to 0.)
1924 Breakers Hotel
Poinciana Hotel
(Palm Beach, Florida)
1924-1925 Cuba
1925 Hilldale Daisies
(Eastern Colored League Champions)
(Negro League World Series vs Kansas City Monarchs.
Hilldale won the series 5 games to 1.)
1925-1926 Cuba
1926-1927 Cuba
1927 Hilldale Daisies
(National barnstorming tour vs Cuban Stars)
1927-1928 Cuba
(Hit - .372)
1928 Hilldale Daisies
208
(Six game series vs Earl Mack's All Stars. Daisies
won 5 lost 1.)
1928-1929 Cuba
(Hit - .329)
1929 Homestead Grays
(Four game series vs Chicago American Giants)
1930 Homestead Grays Spring Training
(Hot Springs, Arkansas)
1930-1931 Cuba
1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(Barnstorming Tour)
(Seven Game Series vs Casey Stengel's All Stars)
1934 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(Exhibition games in Pittsburgh and York, PA
vs Dizzy Dean's All Stars)
1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords
Spring Training - Hot Springs, Ark
1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(Barnstorming Tour)
(Fifteen game barnstorming tour vs Dizzy Dean All
Stars. Crawfords won 9 games and lost 6.)
(Five game series vs World Champ Philadelphia A's.
Pittsburgh Crawfords won 3 and lost 2.)
(Game vs Leo Durochers All Stars in Cincinnati, Ohio)
1936 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(Barnstorming Tour)
(Game vs Leo Durocher's All Stars)
1936 Mexico
Major League Baseball Scout:
Philadelphia Athletics (1952-1955)
Milwaukee Braves
(1956-1959)
Philadelphia Phillies
Major League Baseball Coach:
Philadelphia A's
(1954)
Negro League Most Valuable Player (1929)
Negro League All Star Team
Hitting
(1923 1927 1934 -
Statistics
.391, 1924
.329, 1929
.333, 1935
included:
- .327, 1925 - .392, 1926 - .327,
- .416, 1932 - .246, 1933 - .239,
- .257 and 1936 - .367)
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Jones, Benjamin
(Ben, Junior)
1944-1949
1949-1950
1951-1953
1953-1954
1954-1955
1955-1960
(1933-East and 1936 East)
(1974)
Washington Black Sox
(IND)
New York Black Yankees
(IND)
Military Service
Washington Black Sox
(IND)
Midland Indians (Cleveland Indians Organization)
Washington Black Sox
(Tri-State League)
Winter Leagues:
1949 New York Black Yankees Spring Training – Tampa, FL
209
Jones, Bob
(Big Bob)
1958-1962 Bellview (Winston Salem Recreation League)
1962-1967 Winston Salem Mets
Winston Salem Indians
1962-1964 Winston Salem Pond Giants
(Piedmont Association League)
1965-1967 Winston Salem Pond Giants
(Winston Salem City League)
1968 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1968 Negro All Stars
(IND)
(Traveling team for Indianapolis)
1969-1972 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1975-1984 Winston Salem Pond Giants
(Winston Salem City League)
Jones, Bridges
1962-1963 Lindale
1963 Philadelphia
1963-1976 Lindale
1963-1976 Lindale
Dragons
Stars
Dragons
Dragons (Josh Gibson League)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Jones, Charlie Jr.
1964-1965 Lindale Dragons
1966 New York Bombers (New York City)
1967-1976 Lindale Dragons
1957-1976 Lindale Dragons (Josh Gibson League)
(IND)
Jones, Clarence
(Butsey)
Jones, Cleon Joseph
1948-1951 Holsum Dodgers
Holsum All Stars
(Jackie Moore - Manager)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
1951 New Orleans Black Pelicans
1952-1954 U.S. Army
(Military Baseball)
1955-1959 New Orleans Black Pelicans
Collins All Stars
1960 Detroit-New Orleans Stars
1960 Raleigh Tigers
(Wesley Barrows - Manager)
1959-1960 Mobile Black Bears
Mobile Black Bears
1961-1962 Alabama A & M (Normal,
(College Baseball)
1963 Auburn
(New York
1963 Raleigh
(Carolina
1963 New York Mets
1964-1965 Buffalo
(IL)
1965-1975 New York Mets
1975 Released by New York Mets
1976 Signed by Chicago White Sox
1976 Chicago White Sox
(IND)
(NSL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(IND)
(GCNL)
Alabama)
Penn League)
League)
(ML)
(ML)
as a free agent
(ML)
Winter Leagues:
1965-66 Puerto Rican Winter League
1969 New York Mets – National League Championship Series
1969 New York Mets
(World Series Champions)
1973 New York Mets – National League Championship Series
1973 New York Mets – World Series
210
Puerto Rican League All Star Team: (1965-66)
National League All Star Team (1969)
Jones, Cleveland
(Four Way)
1956-1957 Pullman-Stanley
1958 Birmingham Black Barons
1958-1968 Pullman-Stanley
(BIL)
(NAL)
(BIL)
Birmingham Industrial League All Star Team:
(1958 – Western Division)
Jones, Clinton
(Casey)
(D)
1935-1938 Plant Second Nine
(Plant, Mississippi)
1938-1939 Plant First Nine
1940 Memphis several local teams
1940 Memphis Red Sox Minor League Club
1940-1948 Memphis Red Sox
1948 Cincinnati Crescents
1949-1955 Memphis Red Sox
Winter Leagues:
1953 Winnipeg
(Mandak League)
1953 South America
1953-1954 Dominican Republic
1954 Negro American League All Stars
(IND)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
also played in California Winter League, Cuba, Dominican
Republic, Mexico and Puerto Rico
Negro League All Star Team
(1950-West, 1951-West and 1953-West)
Negro American League MVP
(1950)
Jones, Ezell
(Zeke)
1950 Cleveland - Rudolph Golf Club (Sandlot Team)
1951 Akron (Army Base)
1951-1953 Steelton Giants
(IND)
1951-1953 Harrisburg Giants
(IND)
(Spottswood Poles - Manager)
1953 Steelton Giants
(Lower Dauphin Twilight League)
1953 Harrisburg Giants
(IND)
(Richard Felton - Owner)
1954-1957 Harrisburg Giants
(ENL)
Jones, James
(Jim, Lefty)
1942-1943 Parole Vipers
(Annapolis, Maryland)
1943 Baltimore Elite Giants
1944-1946 Military Service
1946-1948 Nashville Cubs
1946-1948 Baltimore Elite Giants
1949-1953 Philadelphia Stars
1953 Oshawa
(Ontario, Canada)
Winter Leagues:
1949 Jackie Robinson's All Stars
(IND)
(NNL)
(NSL)
(NNL)
(NAL)
(IND)
Negro League All Star Team (1952-East)
211
Jones, John Lewis
(Duke)
Jones, Mack
(Mack the Knife)
1947-1950 Williamsburg Buckeyes
Circle Black Sox
1951-1953 Baltimore Bruins
(Brady Johnson – owner)
1953-1969 Williamsburg Buckeyes
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
1954-1957 Turner High School (Atlanta, GA)
1954-1957 Atlanta Yankees
(GABL)
Rockdale Rawhides
(GABL)
1958 Signed by the Milwaukee Braves (MLBB)
1958 Salinas Packers
(California League)
1959 Cedar Rapids Braves
(Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League)
1960-1961 Louisville Colonels
(American Association)
1961 Milwaukee Braves
(ML)
1962 Toronto Maple Leafs
(International League)
1962 Milwaukee Braves
(ML)
1963 Toronto Maple Leafs
(International League)
1963 Milwaukee Braves
(ML)
1964 Syracuse Chiefs
(International League)
1965 Milwaukee Braves
(ML)
1966-1967 Atlanta Braves
(ML)
1967 Traded with Jim Beauchamp and Jay Ritchie by Atlanta
Braves to the Cincinnati Reds for Deron Johnson
1968 Cincinnati Reds
(ML)
1968 Drafted by the Montreal Expos from the Cincinnati Reds
in the 1968 Expansion Draft
1969-1971 Montreal Expos
(ML)
1971 Released by the Montreal Expos (MLBB)
Holds the Syracuse Chiefs single season record for runs
(111), total bases (337), runs batted in (102), triples
(18)and homeruns (39). All of these records came during
the 1964 season.
Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame (2000)
Jones, Marvin
(Lefty)
(D)
Jones, N.L.
(Monk, Lefty)
1948 Doby Indians
(Atlanta, Georgia)(Sandlot team) (IND)
1949-1950 Atlanta Dodgers (sandlot team)
1951-1953 Atlanta Braves
(Georgia - Alabama League)
1954-1955 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1956-1957 Detroit Speed Kings
(IND)
1956-1957 Detroit Speed Kings
(DBF)
(Detroit Baseball Federation)
1958 Pfieffer's Beer
(Detroit, MI)
1958 U.S. Army
(Military Baseball)
1959 Pfieffer's Beer
(Detroit, MI)
1959 Cadillac Club Wine (Detroit, MI)
1945-1948 Palmer Bulldogs
1948 Kansas City Monarchs
1948-1952 Palmer Bulldogs
Waxahachie
West Dallas Red Sox
1952-1954 U.S. Army
(Military Baseball)
(Quartermaster Corp - Germany)
1955-1960 Continental Bus (Dallas)
East Dallas
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
212
West Dallas
Jones, Othar E.
1976-1980 Alden Cardinals
Jones, Paul
1943-1946 Middletown (OH)
1946-1948 U.S. Army
1948 Homestead Grays
1948 Cleveland Buckeyes
1949 Louisville Buckeyes
1950 Cleveland Buckeyes
1950 Elmwood Giants
1951 Flint Arrows
1952 Vancouver Capilanos
1952-1953 Lethbridge Cubs
1954 Winston-Salem Twins
1955-1957 Out of baseball
1958 Memphis Red Sox
(BIL)
(Town Team)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(Mandak League)
(Central League)
(Northwest League)
(Big Six League)
(Carolina League)
(NAL)
Also played with the Homestead Grays and Detroit Stars
Jones, Rex
1960 Grambling State University (College Baseball)
1961 Los Angeles Barons
(Los Angeles City League)
Los Angeles Braves
(Los Angeles City League)
1961 Indianapolis Clowns
1962-1963 Grambling University (College Baseball)
1964 Kansas City Monarchs
1965 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Professional Basketball:
(Player, Coach, Promoter & Booking Agent)
1967-2003 Harlem Satellites
(Ted Rasberry – owner and Rookie Brown – coach)
Harlem Thrillers
Harlem Travelers
Harlem Global Travelers
Jones, Roosevelt
1957-1959 Woodard Iron and Steel
Jones, Stanley
(Stan)
1955-1956 Pipe Shops Quarters
(BIL)
1956-1958 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
1958 Signed by the Cincinnati Reds (MLBB)
1959 Geneva Red Legs
(New York - Penn League)
1959 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
1960-1961 Topeka Reds
(Three - I League)
1962-1963 Rocky Mount Leafs
(Carolina League)
1963 Traded to Oakland A's Organization
1964 Birmingham Barons
(Southern League)
1964 Traded to Detroit Tigers organization
1965 Montgomery Rebels
(Southern League)
1965 Monterrey
(Mexican League)
1966 Modesto Reds
(California League)
1967 Birmingham A’s
(Southern League)
1967 Leesburg A’s
(Florida State League)
1968-1969 Burlington Bees
(Midwest League)
Winter Leagues:
1958 Birmingham Black Barons
(BIL)
(NAL)
213
(Exhibition series vs Major League All Stars)
(Exhibition series vs Hank Aaron's All Stars)
1959 Cincinnati Reds Spring Training
(Tampa, Florida)
1959 Cincinnati Reds Minor League Camp
(Plant City, Florida)
1964-1965 Valencia Industrialists
(Venezuelan League)
1965 Dominican Republic
1967 Kelowna (Canada)
New York-Penn League Rookie of Year
New York Penn League Wins Leader
(1959)
(1959 w/record of 19-4)
Jones, Walter Eugene 1955-1956 Birmingham Black Barons
Jones, William R.
(Doffey)
(IND)
1928 Burrville A.C.
(IND)
1929-1934 Washington Black Sox
(IND)
(Team founder, owner & manager)
1934-1939 Hilldale A.C. (player)
(IND)
1934-1992 Washington Black Sox
(IND)
Washington Black Sox (Tri State League)
Washington Black Sox (Maryland Industrial League)
(Won over 45 league & major tournament championships)
Jones, Willie James
Jordan, Isaac
Jordan, Maynard
1960-1963 Decatur (AL)
(Town Team)
1963 Lakeside High School (Decatur, AL)
1961 Indianapolis Clowns
1961 New York Royals
(Barnstorming Team for Clowns)
1951-1955 Moore-Handley
Hightower Box Factory
1958-1960 Titusville Merchants
1963-1982 Southside Dodgers
1982-1984 Ensley Steel
Sheridan Heights
1946-1950 Le Moyne College
(Played college football w/ Nat Peoples)
1949 Birmingham Black Barons
1950 Houston Eagles
Jordan, Pringle
1960’s-1970’s Newton Pirates
Kaiser, Cecil
1933 Welch's All Stars
(Welch, West Virginia)
1934-1937 Bishop Street Liners
Gary (West Virginia) Grays
Kimball (West Virginia) Red Sox
1938 Pontiac Big Six
1938 Pittsburgh Crawfords
1939-1940 Detroit Stars
1941-1945 Detroit Motor City Giants
(IND)
(IND)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(BIL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NNL)
(IND)
214
1942 Detroit Motor City Giants
(NML)
1943 General Motors - Local 400
(Detroit Semi Pro Champions)
1945 Homestead Grays
(NNL)
1945-1946 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(USL)
1946 San Luis Potsi
(Mexican League)
1947-1948 Homestead Grays
(NNL)
1949 Homestead Grays
(NAA)
1949 Homestead Grays
(IND)
1950-1951 Detroit Motor City Giants
(IND)
Toledo Crawfords
(IND)
1951 Farnham
(Canadian Provincial League)
1952 Licey
(Dominican Summer League)
1952 Tampa
(Florida International League)
1953-1954 Guelph
(Ontario - Canada)(Inter County League)
1953-1961 Ford All Stars
(Ford Motor Company - Detroit)
(Detroit Industrial League)
Winter Leagues:
1942-1943 Tampico Mexico
1944-1945 Havana
(Cuba)
1945-1946 Marianao (Cuba)
1946-1947 Havana
(Cuba)
1948-1949 Caguas
(Puerto Rico)
1949-1950 Caguas
(Puerto Rico)
1950 Caguas
(Caribbean World Series Roster)
1950-1951 Santo Domingo
(Dominican Republic)
1951-1952 Caguas Criollos
(Puerto Rico)
1952-53 Mayaguez Indios
(Puerto Rico)
1953-1955 G.E. Dynamics
(Panama Winter League)
1956-1957 Havana
(Cuba)
11th Annual North-South All Star Game (South team) (1949)
Puerto Rican Winter League Wins Leader:
(1949-50 – 13 wins)
Puerto Rican Winter League E.R.A. Leader:
(1949-50 - 1.67 E.R.A.)
Keith, Willie
late 1940’s to late 1960’s
Umpire -
Birmingham Industrial League
Y.M.C.A. Industrial League
(BIL)
Industrial League President for several years
also played briefly for Stockham
Kegler, Walter
1959-1960 Birmingham Black Barons
(Piper Davis – Manager)
1960 Hurt Shoulder – Out of Baseball
1961-1968 Norwood (Alabama) - (Manager)
Kelley, James
1966-1970 Dora High School
1966-1974 Birmingport Pirates
(NAL)
(BIL)
(also played baseball in the military for the U.S. Marines)
215
Kennedy, George
Kennedy, John Irvin
(D)
1960 San Angelo Rockets
1961 Tryout with Pittsburgh Pirates
1961-1967 San Angelo Rockets
(IND)
(MLBB)
(IND)
1947-1948 Derkyville Projects
(IND)
(Jacksonville, Florida)
1949 Edward Waters University (College Baseball & Football)
1949 Jacksonville Eagles
(IND)
1949 Jacksonville Eagles
(Grapefruit League)
1949 Greensboro Red Wings
(NAA)
1949 Richmond Eagles
1949 Richmond Giants
1950 Jacksonville Eagles
(IND)
1950 Indian Head Rockets
(IND)
Saskatchewan Rockets
(IND)
1950-1951 Winnipeg Buffaloes
(Mandak League)
1951 Albany Senators
(Eastern league)
1951-1952 Edward Waters College
1952 Minot Mallards
(Mandak League)
1953 Signed contract - Minot Mallards but never reported
1953 Signed by New York Giants (MLBB)
1953 St. Cloud Rox
(Northern League)
1953-1955 Jacksonville Cardinals
(IND)
1954-1955 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
1955-1956 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1956 U.S.A. Team Global World Series
(Tournament - Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
1956 Tryout with Philadelphia Phillies @ Connie Mack
Stadium in Philadelphia
1956 Signed by Philadelphia Phillies Organization (MLBB)
1957 High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms (Carolina League)
1957 Philadelphia Phillies
(ML)
1958 Tulsa Oilers
(Texas League)
1959 Des Moines Demons
(Three I League)
1960 Asheville Tourists
(Sally League)
1961 Jacksonville Jets
(Sally League)
Winter Leagues:
1949 Jacksonville Eagles
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Jackie Robinson's All Stars)
1955 Negro American League All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming series vs Major League All Stars
team managed by Monte Irvin)
1956 Negro American League All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Series vs Willie Mays All Stars)
1957 Philadelphia Phillies Rookie School
(Clearwater, Florida)
Negro League All Star Team
Kerr, Edward Donald
(Ned)
(1955-East and 1956-West)
1980-1983 Easton High School
(Vorhees, New Jersey)
1983-1987 Miller's All Stars
Miller’s All Stars
1988 Indianapolis Clowns
1988 Tryout with Chicago White
(High School Baseball)
(Tri County League)
(South Jersey Summer League)
(IND)
Sox
216
1988 Tryout with Pittsburgh Pirates
1989-1990 Miller's All Stars
(Tri County League)
Miller’s All Stars
(South Jersey Summer League)
Keys, Larry
1960-1962 Bartow All Stars
(IND)
(Ben Williams - Owner/Manager)
Haines City Hornets
(FWCNL)
(Mayfield - Owner)
Plant City Senators
(Town Team - Florida)
1962-1965 Marshall High School Dragons
(Won three Florida state baseball championships)
1962-1967 Plant City Pirates
(FWCNL)
Bartow All Stars
(IND)
Haines City Hornets
(FWCNL)
1966-1967 Florida A & M
(College Baseball)
1967 Washington Senators Tryout Camp - Plant City, Florida
1968-1969 U.S. Army (Military Baseball)
1970-1980 Plant City Pirates
(FWCNL)
Kimball, Edward
1936-1937
1937-1939
1939-1940
1940-1942
1943-1944
1944-1945
1946-1949
Kimball, Joseph
1950-1957 St. Petersburg Black Pelicans
(FSNL)
St. Petersburg Tigers
1957 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1957 St. Petersburg Saints
(Florida State League)
1957-1965 St. Petersburg Black Pelicans
(FWCNL)
St. Petersburg Braves
(FWCNL)
Kimbro, Henry
1934-1936 American Giants
(Nashville City League)
1937 Washington Elite Giants
1938-1940 Baltimore Elite Giants
1941 New York Black Yankees
1942 Baltimore Elite Giants
1943 Philadelphia Stars
1943-1948 Baltimore Elite Giants
1949-1951 Baltimore Elite Giants
1952-1953 Birmingham Black Barons
(D)
Miami Giants
Ethiopian Clowns
West Indies Royals
Ethiopian Clowns
Miami Giants
New York Black Yankees
Miami Giants
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(NNL)
(IND)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
Winter League:
1936 Washington Elite Giants
(Candy Jim Taylor - Manager)
(Post Season Southern Barnstorming Tour)
1939 Homestead Grays - American Series (Havana, Cuba)
(Homestead Grays vs Cuban All Stars. Grays won all
6 games)
1939-1940 Almendares
(Cuba)
1940 Black All Star Team
(Exhibition series - Los Angeles)
1940-1941 Baltimore Elite Giants
(CAWL)
1941-1942 Royal Giants
(CAWL)
217
1943-1944 Baltimore Elite Giants
1946-1947 Havana
(Cuba)
1947-1948 Havana
(Cuba)
(Cuban League Champions)
1948-1949 Havana
(Cuba)
(CAWL)
Cuban Winter League Stolen Bases Title:
(1939-40 - 18 Stolen Bases)
Cuban Winter League Batting Title
(1947-48 - Hit .346)
Cuban Winter League Hits Leader
(1947-48
- 104 Hits)
Negro League Batting Title
(1951 - Hit .366)
Cuban League All Star Team
(1939-40 and 1947-48)
Negro League All Star Team:
(1941-East, 1942-East, 1943-East, 1944-East, 1946-East
1947-East, 1951-East, 1952-East and 1953-East)
Kimbrough, Larry
(School Boy)
1939-1941 Ben Franklin High School (Philadelphia, PA)
1941-1943 Philadelphia Stars
(NNL)
1944-1945 U.S. Army (Military Service)
1945-1948 Philadelphia Stars
(NNL)
1948-1950 Richmond Giants
1949-1950 Homestead Grays
(IND)
1950-1952 Richmond Giants
1953-1954 Homestead Grays
1955 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(ENL)
King, Alton
1938 Pontiac Big Six
1939-1940 Joe Louis Punchers
(IND)
(Flint, Michigan)
1939 Zulu Cannibal Giants
(IND)
1942-1944 Detroit Motor City Giants
(IND)
1943 General Motors - Local 400
(Detroit Semipro League Champions)
1944-1945 U.S. Military
1945 Detroit Motor City Giants
(USL)
1945-1947 Detroit Wolves
(IND)
1947 Detroit Wolves
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Jackie Robinson's All Stars)
1948-1949 Eight Mile Road Eagles
King, Clarence
(Pijo)
1947-1950 Birmingham Black Barons
1948 Birmingham All-Stars
1951 Brandon Greys
(Mandak League)
1952 Birmingham Black Barons
1954 Birmingham Black Barons
1954 Rochester
(Minnesota)
1955-1958 Woodard Iron
1958 Detroit Clowns
1960 Phillips “66”
(D)
(NAL)
(NSL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(BIL)
(NAL)
(BIL)
YMCA Industrial League: (1960)
218
King, Dick
1947 Omaha Rockets
1947 Kansas City Monarchs
(IND)
(NAL)
(Assumed name of Dick "Night Train" Lane)
King, Ezell
1945-1948 Winfield (LA)
(IND)
1948-1951 Grambling Tigers (College Baseball & Basketball)
1952 Hutchinson Elks
(Western Association League)
1952-1954 Harlem Globetrotters
(IND)
(Barnstorming Baseball Team)
1954 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
1955 Detroit Stars
(NAL)
1955 Ted Rasberry (owner) of Detroit Stars sold King's
contract to Baltimore Orioles (MLBB)
1956 Phoenix Stars
(Arizona - Mexico League)
1956 Injured & Released by Baltimore
1956 Tucson Cowboys
(Arizona - Mexico League)
1957 Sold to Boston Red Sox (MLBB)
1957 Eugene Emeralds
(Northwest League)
1958 Waterloo Hawks
(Midwest League)
1959-1960 Allentown Red Sox (Eastern League)
Winter Leagues:
1952-1953 Harlem Globetrotters
(Barnstorming Basketball Team)
1955-1956 Harlem Magicians
(Barnstorming Basketball Team)
Negro League All Star Team
(IND)
(1955-East)
King, Frank
1936-1949
1950-1951
1951-1954
1954 East
East
1955-1964
1965 East
East Point Bears
(IND)
East Point Bears
(Branch Rickey League)
Atlanta Cardinals (Branch Rickey League)
Point Bears
(Branch Rickey League Champions)
Point Bears
(Georgia State Champions)
Atlanta Cardinals (Branch Rickey League)
Point Mets
(Branch Rickey League)
King, Harold
(Hal)
1960-1961 Oviedo Hawks
(IND)
1962 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1962 Brooklyn All Stars
(IND)
1962-1964 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1964 Contract sold to Los Angeles Angels (MLBB) by
Ed Hamman (Owner-Clowns)
1965 Quad Cities
(Midwest league)
1966 El Paso
(Texas League)
1966 Dallas-Ft. Worth
(Texas League)
1967 Asheville
(Carolina League)
1967-1968 Houston Astros
(ML)
1968 Oklahoma City
(PCL)
1968 Dallas-Ft. Worth
(Texas League)
1969 Louisville
(IL)
1969 Drafted by Atlanta Braves from Louisville (Boston Red
Sox organization
1970-1971 Atlanta Braves
(ML)
1971 Traded to Texas Rangers for Paul Casanova
219
1972 Texas Rangers
(ML)
1972 Denver
(AA)
1972 Traded by Denver (Texas Rangers) to Indianapolis
(Cincinnati Reds) for pitcher Jim Merritt
1973 Indianapolis
(AA)
1973-1974 Cincinnati Reds
(ML)
1975 Pueblo
(Mexican League)
1976-1977 Coahuila
(Mexican League)
1978-1979 Saltillo Saraperos (Mexican League)
(Mexican League Champions – 1979)
Winter Leagues:
1967-1971 Santo Domingo
(Dominican Republic)
1970-1971 Magallanes (Venezuela)
1971-1972 Magallanes (Venezuela)
1973 Cincinnati Reds - National League Championship Series
1973-1976 Magellanes (Venezuela)
Carolina Homerun Title
(1967 - 30 HR)
King, James
(Spot)
1958-1961 Kinston Grays
King, John
(Johnny)
1957-1961 Oveido Hawks
(IND)
Orlando All Stars
(FSNL)
1961-1963 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1963 Bethlehem Cardinals
(Blue Mountain League)
1963 Signed by Chicago Cubs (MLBB)
1964 Chicago Cubs Minor League Spring Training Camp
(Escondido, CA)
1964 Lodi
(California League)
1965 Paris
(Midwest league)
1965-1972 Bethlehem Cardinals (Blue Mountain League)
Kirkland, Cliff
1967-1969 Biloxi American Legion
1967-1969 Notre Dame High School
(High School Baseball)
1968-1970 Biloxi Dodgers
1970-1972 Mississippi Gulf Coast
(College Baseball)
1970-1973 Biloxi Dodgers
1973-1974 University of Southern
College Baseball)
1974-1985 Biloxi Dodgers
Knox, Elmer
(Go Get Em)
(IND)
(Biloxi, MS)
(Biloxi, MS)
(GCNL)
Junior College
(GCNL)
Mississippi
(GCNL)
1937 Power House Sluggers
(IND)
(Georgia Power Co. - Sponsor)
1937 Black and Tan A.C.
(IND)
1938 Atlantic Steel Co.
Scripto Black Cats
1938-1941 Atlanta Sunshine Stars
(IND)
1942-1943 Atlanta Braves (Alabama-Georgia-Florida League)
1943 Atlanta Braves
(Alabama-Tennessee League)
1944 Georgia Indians
(IND)
(Savannah, Georgia)
1944 Knoxville Grays
(NSL)
(Henry Lewis - Owner)
220
1944 Atlanta Braves
(Alabama-Georgia-Florida League)
1944 Chicago Giants
(IND)
1944 St. Louis Stars
(IND)
1944 East Chicago Giants
(IND)
1944-1945 U.S. Navy (Military Baseball)
(Great Lakes Naval Training Center)
1944 Offered contract w/ Winnipeg - Canada, couldn't go
because military leave was cancelled.
1944-1945 East Chicago Giants
(IND)
1944-1945 Harrisburg Giants
(IND)
1945 Chicago Giants
(IND)
1946 Atlanta Braves
(Alabama-Georgia-Florida League)
1946 Harrisburg Giants
(IND)
1946-1947 Knoxville Grays
(NSL)
(Henry Lewis - Owner)
1946-1947 Atlanta Black Crackers
(NSL)
1947-1949 Atlanta Braves
(GAABL)
1947-1949 Knoxville Grays
(NSL)
1949 Atlanta Braves
(GAABL)
1949 Atlanta Braves
(Georgia State League)
1955-1965 Branch Rickey League
(League President)
Georgia State National Baseball Congress Commissioner
(1949-1967)
Knox, Roy
Koger, Eugene
(Gene)
(D)
1948-1950 Hardwood Sports (LA)
Chicago American Giants
1951 New Orleans Eagles
1951-1952 Maywood (IL) (Town Team)
Aurora (IL) (Town Team)
1943-1944 Reidsville Black Lucky's (Bat Boy)
(IND)
1947 Jersey All Stars
(IND)
(Jersey City, New Jersey)
1948-1949 Morrisville (PA) (Philadelphia Police League)
(Company Baseball team)
1950 Philadelphia Stars
(NAL)
1950-1953 U.S. Army
(Special Services - Germany)
1954 Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1954-1955 Greensboro Red Wings
1955-1957 Winston-Salem Pond Giants
(NCL)
1958-1960 Greensboro Red Wings
Winter Leagues:
1956 Satchel Paige's All Stars
1956 Joe Black's All Stars
1957 Satchel Paige's All Stars
Kokenge, Doug
(NAL)
(NAL)
1973 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Kovacevich, Carroll 1970-1971 Notre Dame High School (High School Baseball)
1971-1972 Biloxi American Legion
1973-1976 Biloxi Dodgers
(GCNL)
Kovacevich, Michael 1976-1977 Biloxi High School
1980-1982 Biloxi Dodgers
(High School Baseball)
(GCNL)
221
Kuykendall, Don
1959-1967 Anadarko Warriors
(Town Team)
1960-1963 Anadarko High School
(Oklahoma Baseball Player of Year – 1963)
1963-1967 Oklahoma State University
(College Baseball)
(First black baseball player at OSU)
Lacy, Bobby
1968-1969 San Angelo Rockets
(IND)
Lacy, Raymon
1938-1948 Bullet Black Yankees
1947 Atlanta Black Crackers
1947-1948 Tyler Trojans
Jasper Steers
1947 Homestead Grays
1948 Newark Eagles
1949-1950 Houston Eagles
Brantford Red Sox (Canada)
1950-1960 Jasper Steers
(won five Waco Tournaments)
(IND)
(NSL)
(IND)
(IND)
(NNL)
(NNL)
(NAL)
Lacy, Sam
(D)
(Player)
(Basketball Coach)
(IND)
(Sports Writer - Player)
1917-1918 Washington Teddy Bears
(IND)
(Ben Fels - Owner)
1919-1920 Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)
1920-1921 Watch Hill Hotel
(IND)
(Hotel Waiters Baseball Team)
(Watch Hill, Rhode Island, CT)
1921 Norfolk
(Connecticut)
(IND)
(All-White Baseball Team)
(Lacy billed as an Algonquin Indian)
1921-1922 Twelfth Street YMCA (Washington, D.C.)
(Baseball and Basketball Teams)
1921-1922 Armstrong High School
(Baseball, Basketball & Football)
1921-1922 Le Droit Tigers
(IND)
1922 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(IND)
1923 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(ECL)
1923 Hillsdale A.C.
(IND)
1923 Howard University
1923-1939 Hillsdale A.C.
(IND)
(Owner - Manager - Player)
1939-1944 Washington Black Sox
(IND)
1944 Negro League World Series - Commissioner
1930-1932 Community Yellow Jackets(Washington, D.C.)
1934-1935 Washington Bears (Basketball Team)
1935-1937 Alpha Phi Alpha Basketball Team
(Head Basketball Coach)(D.C. Fraternity League)
1937-1940 Washington YWCA Basketball Team
(National Championship)
1940-1941 Washington Bruins (Owner - Head Coach)
1930-1934 Radio Sports Commentator
(WOL and WINX Radio Stations)
222
(Sports Writer)
1934-1937 Washington Tribune
(Managing Editor & Sports Editor)
1937-1939 Washington Afro-American
(Sports Editor & Sports Writer)
1940 Radio Sports
(WJLW Radio - Cincinnati, OH)
1940 Chicago Sun
(Sports Writer)
1940-1943 Chicago Defender
(Assistant National Editor)
1944-1968 Afro American Newspaper
(Sports Editor)
1968-1976 WBAL-TV (Baltimore, MD)
(Sports Commentator)
1968-1999 Afro American Newspaper
(Sports Editor)
Baseball Writers Association of America
(First Afro-American invited into organization) (1948-1998)
Sports Illustrated – Lifetime Achievement in Journalism
Award
(1989)
Ford C. Frick Award
(For pioneering work in baseball journalism)
J.G. Taylor Spink Award
(1997)
Red Smith Award
(1998)
(Associated Press award for major contributions to sports
journalism)
National Newspaper Publishers Association Writing Awards
(1964, 1968, 1970 and 1972)
Black Athletes Hall of Fame
(1975)
Black Press Hall of Fame
(1988)
Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Lacy, Thurman
(D)
(1994)
(1998)
1942-1944 Tyler Black Trojans
1945 Prairie View A & M (Basketball scholarship)
1946-1954 Sheffield Eagles
Kansas City Giants
1954-1955 Kansas City Monarchs
1955-1956 Birmingham Black Barons
1957-1962 Kansas Giants
1963-1984 Kansas Giants (Manager)
(Jay Hawk League)
Winter League:
1950's Jackie Robinson All Stars
1955 Major League All Stars
(Series vs George Kell All Stars)
1956 Satchel Paige's All Stars
1962 Major League All Stars (Barnstorming Team)
(IND)
(IND)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
223
Ladd, Turner Odell
1947-1948 Pittsburg Red Sox
(IND)
(Turner Hill - Manager)
1948-1955 Pittsburg Panthers
(IND)
1948-1950 Douglas High School (High School - Football)
1950 Waco Tigers
1951-1955 Texas College
(College Baseball)
1955 Recruited by Tyler (White - Minor League Team)
Turned down contract to return & take coaching
1955-1958 Pittsburg Panthers
(IND)
1956-1974 High School Football Coach
Douglas High School
Pittsburg High School
Ladsen, Alfred (Sr.) 1936-1942 Mobile (Alabama)
Monroe Monarchs
1936-1968 Mobile Black Bears
Mobile Black Shippers
Mobile (AL)
Tullmanille Sluggers
1969-1970 San Antonio Black Sox
(Player-Manager)
(Coach)
(IND)
(NSL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(STNL)
Ladsen, Alfred (Jr.) 1959-1963 Mobile (AL)
(IND)
(Bosco)
Tullmanille Sluggers
(IND)
1965-1969 Tennessee State University (College Baseball)
1969-1976 San Antonio Black Sox
(STNL)
La Marque, Jim
(Lefty)
(D)
1939-1941 Potosi Tigers (Missouri)
(IND)
1941 Potosi Tigers
(St. Louis Municipal League)
1941-1951 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1950-1958 Fort Wayne K-Parts Club (Southern Indiana League)
(NBC - National Baseball Congress)
1951 Mexico City Reds
(Mexican League)
1950-1961 Kansas City Giants
(IND)
Winter Leagues:
1946-1947 Havana Red Legs (Cuba)
1947-1948 Havana
(Cuba)
1948 Kansas City Royals
(IND)
1948 Kansas City Royals
(CAWL)
(Game vs Bob Lemmon All Stars in Los Angeles)
1948-1949 Santurce
(Puerto Rico)
1949-1950 Santurce Cangrejeros (Puerto Rican Winter League)
1950 Fort Wayne Capeharts (Indiana)
(National Baseball Congress Tournament Champions –
Wichita)
(Capehart's Japanese Tour - Tokyo)
1950 Navojoa (Mexican Pacific Coast League)
1952 Danville (M.O.V. League)
1950-1960 Kansas City Giants
(IND)
1960 Kansas City Giants
(NBC District Champions - Kansas)
(NBC State Tournament - Kansas)
(NBC National Tournament - Wichita)
224
St. Louis Municipal League All Star Team (1941 - West)
Puerto Rican League All Star Team
(1949-50)
Negro League Wins and ERA Leader
(1948 - 15 Wins and 1.96 ERA)
Lampros, Nick
Mexican League Wins Leader
(1951 - 19 Wins)
Negro League All Star Team
(1948-West and 1949-West)
1966-1968 Fayetteville High School (NC)
(High School Baseball)
1966-1970 Fayetteville Cardinals (Town Team)
1969-1970 University of North Carolina (College Baseball)
1971 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1972 Signed by Chicago White Sox (MLBB)
1972 Chicago White Sox Spring Training – Cut
1974 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
Lancaster, John Wesley
(Pud)
1942-1946 Sand Springs (MD)
1947-1948 Homestead Grays
1949 Homestead Grays
1949-1950 Washington Black Sox
1951-1952 Washington Aztecs
Landers, Robert Henry
(Bob, Henny)
1949-1950 Kansas City Laundry Workers
1950 Kansas City Travelers
(Kansas City Monarchs "B" Team)
(D)
1950-1952 Kansas City Monarchs
1952 Minot Mallards
(Mandak League)
1953-1954 Cuban All Stars (Havana, Cuba)
1955-1956 Ford Motor Co. Baseball Team
(Kansas City - City League)
Lane, Dick
(Night Train)
(D)
1944-1947 Anderson High School (Austin, Texas)
1947 Kansas City Monarchs
1947 Omaha Rockets
(Played under name - Dick King)
1948 Scottsbluff Junior College
(College Football - Nebraska)
(Junior All-American - 1st Team)
1948 Kansas City Monarchs
1948-1952 U.S. Army
(Military Football & Baseball)
Fort Ord Warriors - Basketball
1951 Santa Cruz Seahawks
(Semi-pro Football Team)
1951 North American Aircraft
(Industrial League Basketball)
1952 Loyola Marymount University (CA)
(Basketball Scholarship)
1952-1953 Los Angeles Rams
1954-1959 Chicago Cardinals
1960-1965 Detroit Lions
(NNL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(NFL)
(NFL)
(NFL)
Football Coaching Career:
225
1972-1973 Southern University
1973-1974 Central State University
NFL Interception Leader:
(1952 - 14 Int. and 1954 - 10 Int.)
NFL Season Record for Interceptions:
(1952 - 14 interceptions)
NFL Career -
68 Interceptions (1,207 Yards & 5 Touchdowns)
National Football League All-Pro Team
(11 seasons)
75th Anniversary All Time NFL Team
National Football League Hall-of-Fame
Lane, Harry
(1974)
1935-1936 Paris Northside
(Boys Sandlot Team - Paris, Texas)
1936-1938 Paris Tigers
1937-1938 Lee Street -Tutie Grove
(Sand lot team - Paris, Texas)
1938 Kansas City Monarchs
1938-1941 Paris Tigers
1942-1954 Paris Brown Bombers
Paris Brown Sox
(IND)
Lang, Jimmy
1957-1958 Fort Lauderdale Braves
1959-1970 Pompano Beach Red Caps
Pompano Yankees
Pompano Red Sox
Pompano Tigers
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Laurent, Milfred S.
(Rick)
1918-1921 New Orleans, Louisiana – Numerous Semipro Teams
1921-1922 New Orleans Crescent Stars
(SNL)
1923 Caulfield Ads
(SNL)
1923-1925 New Orleans Black Pelicans
1926 New Orleans Black Pelicans
(NSL)
(Negro Southern League Champions)
1927 Nashville Elite Giants
(NSL)
1928-1929 Memphis Red Sox
(NNL)
1929 Birmingham Black Barons
(NNL)
1930 Memphis Red Sox
(NNL)
1931-1932 Cleveland Cubs
(NNL)
1932 Birmingham Black Barons
(NSL)
1932 Nashville Elite Giants
(NSL)
1933-1934 New Orleans Crescent Stars
(NSL)
1935 New Orleans Black Pelicans
(NSL)
(D)
(TNL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(TNL)
(IND)
(IND)
also played for Oklahoma Black Indians
New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame
Lavine, Robert
(1981)
1972-1974 Dade City Nine Devils
1974-1978 Florida A & M (college baseball)
1978-1993 Dania Red Birds
(IND)
(IND)
226
Lawrence, Brooks
(D)
1949 Zaneville
(Ohio-Indiana League)
1950 Dayton
(Central League)
1950 Pittsfield
(Can-Am League)
1951 Harrisburg
(Interstate League)
1951 Wilkes-Barre
(Eastern League)
1952-1953 Reading
(Eastern League)
1954 Portsmouth Merrimacs
(Piedmont League)
1954 Columbus
(AA)
1954-1955 St. Louis Cardinals
(ML)
1955 Oakland
(PCL)
1956-1960 Cincinnati Reds
(ML)
1960 Havana Sugar Kings
(IL)
1960 Jersey City
(IL)
1972-1982 Cincinnati Reds
(ML)
(Front office management)
Winter Leagues:
1953-1954 Caguas Criollos (Puerto Rico)
1954 Caguas Criollos
(Caribbean World Series Champions)
(San Juan, Puerto Rico)
1954 Roy Campanella Negro Major League All Stars
(IND)
(West Coast Barnstorming Tour)
(Game vs Kent Parker's All Stars Lane Field in
San Diego, California)
1955 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Negro American League All Stars)
1956 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming tour vs Negro American League All Stars)
1957 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
1958 Willie Mays All Stars
(IND)
(Started in New York the day after the World Series
and only allowed to barnstorm for 30 days)
(Barnstormed in U.S. vs a Negro League All Star team)
(West Coast Barnstorming Tour)
(Barnstormed in Mexico, Santo Domingo and Nicaragua vs
local all-star teams)
Puerto Rican League All Star Team: (1953-54)
Layton, Clifford
1947-1948 New York Metros
(CPCL)
(Central Park Community League)
1948 Dunn Hornet Blues
(IND)
1949 Raleigh Tigers
(NCL)
1950 New York Metros
(CPCL)
1951-1954 Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1954 Baltimore Elite Giants
1954 New York Black Yankees
(IND)
1955-1965 East Orange Browns
(Essex County League)
Leach, George
1949-1951 Lumberton (Club House Boy)
(Tobacco State League)
1951-1953 Lumberton High School (High School Baseball)
1951-1953 Lumberton Black Sox
(IND)
1951-1953 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(IND)
New York Cuban Giants
(IND)
227
1953
1953
1954
1954
1954
1954
Whiteville (NC)
Durham Eagles
(IND)
Durham Rams
(IND)
Signed by Baltimore Orioles for $ 2,000 bonus
Assigned by Orioles to Aberdeen
Baltimore Orioles Spring Training
(Thomasville, GA)
1954 Got Sick - Released by Orioles
1954-1955 Durham Rams
(IND)
1955-1965 United States Air Force
(Military Baseball)
(Kirkland Air Force Base)
1955 Albuquerque Lumberjacks
1959 Offered contract by Pittsburgh Pirates - Turned down
contract and re-entered USAF
1960-1963 Durham Rams
(IND)
Outstanding Amateur Boxer: (139 pounds)
Golden Gloves Champion:
Albuquerque (NM) - two times
San Francisco (CA)
St. Louis (MO)
Finals - Olympic Trials
Lee, Charles
(Stump)
1952-1955 Kennett Square High School (High School Baseball)
1952-1955 Kennett Square Legion
(Kennett Square Community League)
1956-1958 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(IND)
Kennett Square Baseball Hall of Fame (1985)
Lee, Joe
(D)
1958-1959 Grand Rapids Black Sox
1958-1959 Grand Rapids Black Sox
(Southwest Michigan Baseball League)
1960-1963 Ensley
(Alabama -Town Team)
(IND)
1939-1942 Durham Black Sox
(Henderson Lee - Manager)
1940-1942 Haystown
1942-1946 U.S. Army Air Corps
(Military Baseball - South Pacific)
(Manila, Philippines)
1946 Chicago American Giants
Spring Training - Florida
1946-1947 Durham Eagles
1947-1950 Durham Eagles
1950-1951 Durham Eagles
1952 Durham Rams
1952 Southern All Stars
(8th Annual Carolina All Star Classic)
(Game vs Fort Eustis Wheels w/ Willie Mays)
1952-1955 Durham Rams
(IND)
1958-1960 Pittsburgh Grays (semipro - sandlot team)
(IND)
Lee, Big John
Lee, John Westly
Lee, R.C.
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NCL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
228
Lee, Vincent
(D)
Lee, Willie James
1923-1929 Ebenezer AME Royals (Baltimore, Maryland)
1929-1930 Baltimore Silver Moons
1930 Mt Winans Athletic Club
(IND)
1930-1931 Baltimore Silver Moons
(IND)
1931 Baltimore Black Sox
(IND)
1932-1933 Miami Giants
(IND)
1932 Black Stone Hotel
(IND)
1933-1935 Denver Monarchs
1935-1936 Sarasota Tigers
(IND)
1936 Syracuse Red Sox
(IND)
1936 Denver Monarchs
1936-1937 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
(Series vs House of David)
1938-1940 Dr. Thomas's Baseball Team (Paris Point, MD)
1938-1941 Young Black Sox
(IND)
(Baltimore, Maryland)
1941-1942 Newark Eagles
(NNL)
1942 Baltimore Elite Giants
(NNL)
1942-1947 Baltimore Silver Moons
(IND)
(Baltimore, Maryland)
1954-1955 U.S. Steel Company
(BIL)
Ensley Steel
(BIL)
Fairfield Stars
(BIL)
1955 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
1955-1958 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1957-1958 Grand Rapids Black Sox
(IND)
1958-1959 Sullivans
(Bob Sullivan - owner) (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
1959 Signed by Detroit Tigers (MLBB)
1959-1960 Decatur Commodores
(Midwest League)
1960 Duluth Dukes
(Northern League)
1960 Decatur Comodores
(Midwest League)
1961 Released by Detroit Tigers
1961 Sullivan's
(Grand Rapids, Michigan)
1961 Signed by Minnesota Twins (MLBB)
1962 Minnesota Twins Spring Training
1962 Bismarck Man Dan Partners
(Northern League)
1961 Saskatoon
(Canada)
1963 Wilson Tobbs
(Carolina League)
1963 Erie Sailors
(New York - Penn League)
1964-1970 Sullivan's
(Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Muskegon Zephers
also played with Al Kaline All Stars
Negro League All Star Team
Le Grande, Larry
(1957)
1953-1957 Webster's All Stars
(Webster Brick Co - Sponsor)(Roanoke, Virginia)
1957 Memphis Red Sox
(Homer "Goose" Curry - Manager)
(Rufus Ligon - Manager)
1958 Kansas City Monarchs
1958 Detroit Clowns
1959 Kansas City Monarchs
1959 Detroit Stars
(IND)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
229
(Ed Steele - Manager)
Kansas City Monarchs
Sold by Monarchs to New York Yankees for $ 5,000
Signed by New York Yankees (MLBB)
Greensboro
(Carolina League)
St. Petersburg Saints
(Florida State League)
Released by New York Yankees
Kansas City Monarchs
(Sherwood Brewer - Manager)
1961-1962 Satchel Paige's All Stars
1962 Kansas City Monarchs
1963 Satchel Paige All Stars
1963 Cessna Aircraft Baseball team (Manager)
1959
1959
1959
1960
1960
1960
1960
Winter Leagues:
1959 Kansas City Monarchs Spring Training
(Birmingham, Alabama)
1959 New York Yankees Spring Training
(St. Petersburg, Florida)
1960 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(Canadian Barnstorming Tour)
1961 Satchel Paige All Stars
(Canadian Barnstorming Tour)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Negro League All Star Team:
(1958-West, 1959-West and 1962-West)
Salem-Roanoke Baseball Hall of Fame
Leon, Isidore
(Issy)
(D)
1941-1944 Circulo Militar y Naval
(Cuban National Amateur League)
1945 Minneapolis Millers
(AA)
1945 Philadelphia Phillies
(ML)
1945-1946 All-Cubans
(IND)
1945 Portland Beavers
(PCL)
1946 Vibora
(Cuban Summer League)
1947 St. Petersburg Saints (Florida International League)
1948 Sparta Saints
(Georgia State League)
1948 New York Cubans
(NNL)
1949 Dublin Green Sox
(Georgia State League)
1949 Havana Cubans
(Florida International League)
1950 Sherman-Dennison Twins (Big State League)
1951-1952 Abilene Blue Sox (West Texas-New Mexico League)
Winter League:
1941 Cuban National Team
Fourth Amateur World Series - Cuba
1942 Cuban National Team
Fifth Amateur World Series - Cuba
1943 Cuban National Team
Sixth Amateur World Series - Cuba
1944 Cuban National Team
Seventh Amateur World Series
(Caracas, Venezuela)
1945-1946 Habana Leones
(Cuba)
1945-1946 Marianao Tigers (Cuba)
1946-1947 Havana Reds
(Cuba)
230
1950-1951 Almendares Alacranes (Cuba)
Leonard, Walter
(Buck)
(D)
1921-1932 Rocky Mount Elks
(IND)
Rocky Mount Black Swans
(IND)
Wilson (North Carolina)
(IND)
1933 Portsmouth Firefighters
(IND)
Doughertys(Portsmouth) Black Revels
1933 Baltimore Stars
(IND)
(Ben Taylor - Manager)
1933 Chattanooga Black Lookouts
1933 Baltimore Black Sox
(NNL)
1933 Brooklyn Royal Giants
(NNL)
(Cannonball Dick Redding-Manager)
1934 Brooklyn Royal Giants
(IND)
1934-1937 Homestead Grays
(NNL)
1937-1948 Homestead-Washington Grays
(NNL)
(Won nine consecutive Negro
National League championships)
1949 Homestead Grays
(NAA)
1949-1950 Homestead Grays
(IND)
1951 Durango
(Mexico)
1951-1952 Torreon
(Mexican League)
1951 Turned down contract offer from the St. Louis Browns
1953 Portsmouth Merrimacs (Piedmont League)
1953 Torreon
(Mexican League)
1954 Xalapa
(Mexican League)
1954-1955 Durango
(Mexican Central League)
1957 Homestead Grays
(Adult League - Rocky Mount, NC) (Manager)
1962-1975 Rocky Mount
(Carolina League)
(Executive - Team Vice-President)
Winter Leagues:
1935 Homestead Grays Barnstorming Tour
(Eastern U.S. Tour vs Buck Lei's Hawaiian All Stars)
(County fair games vs white semipro teams in Maine,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts)
1935-1936 Brooklyn Eagles All Stars
(IND)
(Puerto Rican Barnstorming Tour)
(Three Game Series vs Cincinnati Reds in Puerto Rico)
(Hit .346 during Puerto Rican Tour)
1936 Homestead Grays Spring Training - Atlanta, Georgia
(Exhibition games vs area college baseball teams:
Morris Brown, Spelman, Clark and Morehead)
(Exhibition games vs Fort Benning Army Barracks
Baseball Team)
1936 Negro National League All Stars
(IND)
(Midwest Barnstorming Tour)
(Denver Post Tournament Champs)
(Mexican Barnstorming Tour)
(Puerto Rico Tour)
1936 Homestead Grays Post Season Tour
(Exhibition games vs area "black" teams in Durham
and Winston-Salem)
1936-1937 Marianao
(Cuba)
231
(Cuban Winter League Champions)
1937 Homestead Grays Spring Training - Jacksonville, FL
(Series vs Ethiopian Clowns in Miami)
1937 Homestead Grays Post Season Series
(Seven game "World Series" vs NAL - combined team from
the Kansas City Monarchs & Chicago American Giants)
(Grays won the "series": 6 games to 1)
1938 Homestead Grays - American Series
Homestead Grays vs Cuban All Stars
Habana, Cuba - Cubans won 4 of 6 games
1939 Homestead Grays Spring Training
(Orlando High School - Florida)
(Exhibition games at Tinker Park, home of Washington
Senators)
(Exhibition games back to Pittsburgh)
(Easter two game series vs Kansas City Monarch in
New Orleans)
1939 Homestead Grays Post Season Tour
(Lost post season tournament to Newark Eagles)
(Southern barnstorming tour vs New York Black Yankees)
1939 Homestead Grays - American Series
Homestead Grays vs Cuban All-Stars
Habana, Cuba - Grays won all 6 games
1939 All Star Team
(Cuba)
(Barnstorming Tour)
(Six game series in Havana vs "Major-League" All Star
team w/ Dolph Luque and Mike Gonzalez)
1940 Homestead Grays Spring Training - Orlando, Florida
(Won two game Easter Series vs Kansas City Monarchs in
New Orleans)
(Exhibition games traveling north back to Pittsburgh)
1940-1941 Mayaguez Indios (Puerto Rican Winter League)
1942 Homestead Grays Spring Training
(Dayton, OH and Raleigh, NC)
(Exhibition series vs Newark Eagles)
1943 Homestead Grays Spring Training
(West Field - Homestead, Pa)
1943 South All Star Team
(North-South Classic game at Griffith Stadium)
1943 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
(West coast tour vs Buck Newsom's All Stars)
1943-1944 Baltimore Elite Giants
(CAWL)
1943-1944 Kansas City Royals
(CAWL)
1943-1944 Satchel Paige's All Stars
(IND)
(Exhibition series vs Major League All Stars at
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, CA)
(Exhibition series vs Pacific Coast League All Stars)
1944 Homestead Grays Spring Training - Dayton, Ohio
1945 Homestead Grays Spring Training - Raleigh, NC
1945 Homestead Grays Post Season Tour
(Exhibition series vs Cleveland Buckeyes)
1945 American All Stars
(Caracas, Venezuela)
1945-1946 Caracas
(Venezuela)
1947 Homestead Grays Spring Training
(Jacksonville & Daytona Beach High School - Florida)
(Southern states exhibition series while returning to
Forbes Field)
232
1947 Dan Bankhead' All Star's
(Southern Barnstorming Tour)
1948 Negro All Star Team
(Western U.S. tour vs Western League teams)
1948-1949 Marianao
(Cuba)
1949 Homestead Grays Spring Training
(Danville, Virginia)
1949 New York Stars All Star Team
(Barnstorming tour from New York City to Wichita
Falls, Texas)
(South American Tour - Caracas, Venezuela)
1949 Jackie Robinson All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs New Orleans Creoles)
1951 Obregon (Mexico)
1952 Xalapa
(Mexico)
1953 Xalapa
(Mexico) (Team MVP)
plus exhibition games vs Brooklyn Bushwicks w/Dizzy Dean
and numerous exhibition games (generally every Sunday
in October) in late 1930's vs Major League All Star
teams(w/Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, Bobo
Newsom, etc.) in Baltimore, Maryland
Negro National League Batting Title
(1948 - Hit .395)
Negro National League Homerun Titles
(1940 - Hit 9 HR, 1944 - Hit 7 HR and 1948 - Hit 13 HR)
Puerto Rican League Homerun Title (1940-41 - Hit 8 HR)
Puerto Rican League Doubles Leader: (1940-41 – 17 doubles)
California Winter League All Star Team:
(1937-38 and 1943-44)
Negro League All Star Team
(1935-West, 1936-East, 1937-East, 1938-East, 1939-East,
1940-East, 1941-East, 1943-East, 1944-East, 1945-East,
1946-East & 1948-East)
Hitting
(1936 1941 1951 -
Statistics include:
.436 w/ 33 HR, 1937 - .383 w/ 36 HR, 1940 - .376,
.383 1945 - .375, 1947 - .410, 1948 - .391 w/42HR,
.322 1952 - .325 and 1953 - .332)
Lifetime Batting Averages:
.340 Negro National League
.323 Mexican Leagues
.419 Negro League Post Season Play
.320 Negro League World Series
.317 Negro League All Star Games
.421 Games vs White Major League Barnstorming Teams
.333 Piedmont League (At age 45)
.312 Durango w/13 HR & 60 RBI (@ age 48)
Slugging Average of .700 several times
233
Hit an estimated 500+ homeruns
Lewis, Bernard
Negro National League MVP
(1943)
North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
(1974)
National Baseball Hall of Fame
(1972)
1945-1946 Atlanta Paper Co.
(IND)
1947 South Atlanta Athletes
(IND)
1947-1948 Atlanta Stars
(IND)
1948-1949 Atlanta Black Crackers
(NSL)
1950-1952 Atlanta Stars
(IND)
1952-1954 U.S. Army (Military Baseball) (Vienna, Austria)
1954-1956 Atlanta Stars
(IND)
1957-1963 Umpire
Winter Leagues:
1948-1949 Atlanta Black Crackers
(Barnstorming Tour vs Indianapolis Clowns)
Lewis, Charles B.
1950-1954 Avondale Tigers
(Lewis Brown - Manager)
1955-1957 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(IND)
(Dub Carter - Manager)
(Harry Webster - Coach)
1955-1957 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(Kennett Square Community League)
1956 Milwaukee Braves (MLBB)Tryout Millersville University
1956-1960 Winston- Salem State College (Track Scholarship)
1961 U.S. Army
1961-1962 Kennett Square
(Wilmington Semipro League)
1961-1962 Kennett Square Clippers
(Delaware Valley League)
(Semipro Soccer Team)
Kennett Square Baseball Hall of Fame (2003)
Lewis, David O.
1958-1960 Avon Grove High School (PA)
(High School Baseball)
1958 Philadelphia Phillies (MLBB) Tryout
(Wilmington, Delaware)
1958-1960 Kennett Square Legion
(Kennett Square Community League)
1960 West Chester College
(Athletic Scholarship)
1958-1968 Kennett Square Grey Sox
1958-1960 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(Kennett Square Community League)
1961-1968 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(Wilmington Semi-Pro League)
(IND)
Kennett Square Baseball Hall of Fame (2006)
Lewis, Ernest
1957 Memphis Red Sox
Lewis, Henry
1939-1952 Freeport Black Terrapins
Houston Hughes Tools
(NAL)
(IND)
234
Lewis, James
(Lou)
1942-1944 Chicago American Giants (Bat Boy)
(NAL)
1945-1948 Joe Lewis Brown Bombers
1949 Brooklyn Cuban Giants
(IND)
1949 Signed by Chicago Cubs (MLBB)
1950 Jaynesville (WI)
1950 Released by Chicago Cubs
1951-1952 Harlem Globetrotters
(IND)
1953 Indianapolis Clowns
(NAL)
1953 Memphis Red Sox
(NAL)
1954 Signed by Boston Braves (MLBB)
1954-1955 Clovis Pioneers
(West Texas-New Mexico League)
1954 Miami Flamingos
1956 Michigan City White Caps (Midwest League)
1957 Las Vegas Wranglers
(Arizona-Mexico League)
1957 Stockton Ports
(California League)
Lewis, Joe
1954-1965 Kerrville All Stars
Lewis, Joseph
1949-1953 Avondale Tigers
(Lewis Brown - Manager)
1954-1957 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(IND)
1954-1957 Kennett Square Grey Sox
(Kennett Square Community League)
1956 Winston - Salem State College (Track Scholarship)
1957-1959 U.S. Army (Military Baseball)
(IND)
Kennett Square Baseball Hall of Fame (2005)
Lewis, Mack
Lewis, Paul
(Salim)
Lewis, Rufus
(Lew)
(D)
1958-1962 Decatur
1962 Indianapolis
1963-1964 Decatur
1965 Indianapolis
1965-1975 Decatur
Nationals (Town Team)
Clowns
Nationals
Clowns
Nationals
1945-1949 Donaldsonville Dock Aces
1949 New Orleans Midgets
1949-1951 New Orleans Black Pelicans
1952-1955 Collins All Stars
(Robert Bissant - Manager)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(NSL)
(IND)
1936-1937 Pittsburgh Crawfords
(NNL)
1943-1945 U.S. Air Force (Military Service)
1946-1948 Newark Eagles
(NNL)
1949-1950 Houston Eagles
(NAL)
1950 St. Paul
(AA)
1950-1952 Mexico City Red Devils (Mexican League)
1951 Mexico Verecious
1951 Vera Cruz
(Mexican League)
1952 Chihuahua
(Arizona-Texas League)
Winter Leagues:
1936 Negro League All Stars
(Puerto Rico Tour)
1946 Satchel Paige All Stars
(Toured w/ Bob Feller's Major League All Stars)
1946-47 Magallanes (Venezuelan Winter league)
(IND)
(IND)
235
1947-48 Havana
(Cuban Winter League Champions)
1948-49 Havana
(Cuba)
Negro League All Star Team
Ligon, Marvin
(1947-East and 1948-East)
1941 Southern Stars (Bat Boy)
1946-1947 U.S. Army (Military Baseball)
1948-1952 Ligon's All Stars
1952 Memphis Red Sox
(IND)
Lightfoot, Milton
1953-1954 Huntsville Giants
1955-1957 Rocket City Dodgers
1958-1963 Huntsville Hawks
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Lindsay, William
(Red)
1925-1931 Johnson C. Smith University
(CIAA)
(Charlotte, North Carolina)
(High School & College Baseball)
(All CIA - four years - shortstop)
1931 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(IND)
1932 Washington Pilots
(EWL)
1932 Harrisburg Giants
(IND)
1932 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(IND)
1933 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(IND)
1934 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(NNL)
1935 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(IND)
1938-1962 Passon Sporting Goods
(Local baseball & softball team)
(Played on All Star Team vs Joe Louis's Detroit
Brown Bombers)
(D)
(IND)
(NAL)
Johnson C. Smith University Hall of Fame
Lipscomb, George
(Watashi)
1945 Durham Pirates
1946-1949 Durham Eagles
1947-1951 North Carolina College (College Baseball)
1949 Southern All Stars
(Barnstormed vs Jackie Robinson's All Stars)
1949-1950 Jacksonville Eagles
(Dick Lundy - Manager)
1951 Indian Head Rockets
1952 Military Service
(Baseball - Japan)
1953-1954 Moose Jaw
(Canada)
(IND)
(NCL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
also played against Satchel Paige's All Stars and
Jackie Robinson's All Stars
Lisby, Maurice
(Mo)
(D)
1934 Newark Dodgers
1934 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(NNL)
(NNL)
Little, Irwin
1954 Detroit Stars
1954-1957 Grand Rapids Black Sox
1959 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
(IND)
(NAL)
Little, William
(Bill)
1948-1952 Memphis Red Sox
(NAL)
(Team Bat Boy & Mascot)
1950-1952 Booker T. Washington High School (Memphis, TN)
236
(High school baseball and basketball)
1952-1957 Memphis Red Sox
1953-1957 Le Moyne College (College Basketball)
(Memphis, Tennessee)
1957-1959 San Mateo Blues (El Camino League)
1957-1958 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
(NAL)
High School Baseball & Basketball Coach:
Coached high school baseball and basketball 28 years
Douglas High School (Memphis, TN)
Booker T. Washington High School (Memphis, TN)(18 years)
Won several district and city championships
Coaching record baseball
158-108
Coaching record basketball 340-132
College Football & Basketball Referee:
Southwestern Athletic Conference
(30 years - baseball & basketball)
Littlejohn, Paul (JR)
Lloyd, Curtis
(Bingo)
1960-1985
Umpire – Birmingham Industrial League
1921-1925 Aberdeen (MS) (Town Team)
1926 Wendell Phillips High School (Chicago, Illinois)
(All City - End - Football)
1926-1927 Vincennes Cubs
(Washington Park League)
1926-1927 Union Square Royal Giants
(Washington Park Betting League)
1927-1931 Bethesda Flashes
(Chicago Sunday School League)
(League champions 1929, 1930 and 1931)
1927-1931 Colored All Stars
(IND)
(Based out of Chicago)
1927 Chicago American Giants
(NNL)
(Tryout through Dave Malarcher)
1930-1931 Armour Packing Company
(Chicago Industrial League)
1932-1933 Pullman Giants
(Chicago Industrial League)
1934 Kansas City Monarchs
(IND)
(Tryout - played 4/5 games)
1934-1937 Palmer House Indians
(IND)
Palmer House All Stars
(IND)
1936-1938 Chicago American Giants
(NNL)
1937-1942 Palmer House Indians (Chicago Hotel League)
Palmer House Indians
(IND)
1938-1939 Palmer House Stars
(IND)
1939-1940 Palmer House All Stars
(Won state baseball tournament both years –
first black team from Illinois to go to
Wichita Tournament)
1942-1944 Dayton Marcos
(IND)
Illinois State Semi Pro Baseball All-Tournament Team;
(1939 and 1940)
Outstanding golf career: (Took up golf in 1944)
1950 Won - U.S. Negro Open Championship
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1950 Won - Midwestern Open Championship
1957 Won - Cincinnati Open Championship
1969 Won - Fairway Annual Tournament
also won over 50 other local titles and championships and
at age 81 won Locust Hills Senior Championship
Tournament. Never finished below fourth in any
tournament in played.
Lloyd, Tony
1952-1954 Fairfield Gray Sox
(BIL)
1955-1958 Tuskegee University
(All-Conference Baseball Player)
1959 St. Louis Cardinals Spring Training
(St. Petersburg, Florida)
1959 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
(Negro American League Champions)
1960-1962 Cleveland Dodgers
(Semipro Team - Cleveland, OH)
1963-1964 Commerce Ford
(Cleveland Industrial League)
Locke, Earnest
(Fat)
1943-1950 Graham Sluggers
Graham Steers
1946-47 Wichita Falls Black Spudders
1947 Kansas City Monarchs
1947-1950 Wichita Falls Black Spudders
1949-1950 Muskogee Black Cardinals
1950 Offered contract by New York Giants (MLBB),
but drafted by U.S. Army
1951-1953 U.S. Army
1953-1955 Graham Sluggers
1956 Signed by New York Giants (MLBB)
1956 Wichita Falls Spudders
(Big State League)
(Danny Ozark - Player/Manager)
1956 Danville
(Carolina League)
1956 Released - Broken Hand
1957-1962 Wichita Falls Stars
Graham Stars
(D)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(NAL)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
(WTCL)
(WTCL)
Lockett, Jonna W.
(Willie)
1949 Newark Eagles
1950-1970 U.S. Army
(Military baseball - basketball and football)
(IND)
Lockett, Lester
(Buck)
1937 St. Louis Stars
1938 Birmingham Black Barons
1939 Joe Green's Giants
(Chicago based Barnstorming Team)
1940 Chicago American Giants
1940 Cincinnati Buckeyes
1941 Philadelphia Stars
1941-1942 Birmingham Black Barons
1942 Chicago American Giants
1943-1946 Birmingham Black Barons
1946 Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns
1946 Chicago Monarchs
1947-1948 Baltimore Elite Giants
1949 Baltimore Elite Giants
1950 Chicago American Giants
(NAL)
(NAL)
(IND)
(D)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NNL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(IND)
(NNL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
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1950-1951 Carmen Cardinals
1951 Farnham
1952 Winnipeg Elmwood Giants
1953 Carmen Cardinals
1953 Torreon
(Mandak League)
(Canadian Provincial League)
(Mandak League)
(Mandak League)
(Mexican League)
plus played for Memphis Red Sox
Winter Leagues:
1943 Birmingham Black Barons
(Negro American League Champions)
1947-48 Magallanes
(Venezuelan Winter League)
1948 Chicago Monarchs
(Barnstorming Team)
1948 Jackie Robinson & Roy Campanella All Stars
(IND)
(Barnstorming Tour vs Memphis Red Sox)
1948-1949 Spur Cola
(Panama Winter League)
1949 Spur Cola - Panama
(Caribbean World Series I)
1950 Fort Wayne Capeharts
National Baseball Congress Tournament - Wichita, KS
National Champions
(Batted .403 in 1941, .593 in 1942, .411 in 1943 and
.386 in 1948)
Negro League All Star Team
(1943-West, 1945-West and 1948-East)
Loggins, Eddie
1949-1955 El Dorado Red Sox (Town Team)
1956-1959 Arkansas AM& N (College Baseball)
(Pine Bluff, AR)
1956-1959 Pine Bluff Braves (Player-Manager)
1959 Tryout with New York Yankees (AL)
1959 Assigned to a Minor League team in North Dakota
but did not report
1962 Kansas City Monarchs
1963 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
(IND)
Coaching Career:
1959-1961 Reed High School (Head Basketball Coach)
(Dumas, AR)
1961-1964 Gardner High School (Head Basketball Coach)
(Strong, AR)
1964-1987 Crossett Public Schools (Head BB and Baskt Coach)
(Crossett, AR)
Logan, Carl
(D)
1927 Boston Royal Giants
(IND)
1928 Chappie Johnson's Stars
(IND)
1928 Schenectady Black Sox
(IND)
1928 Ogendensburg
(Northern New York State League)
1929-1934 Mohawk Giants
(IND)
House of David
(IND)
Zulu Cannibal Giants
(IND)
1934 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
(NNL)
1935 Philadelphia Stars
(NNL)
1935 Brooklyn Royal Giants
(IND)
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1936-1938 Montreal Black Panthers (Provincial League)
1937 Mohawk Giants
(Eastern New York State League)
1937 Mohawk Colored Giants
(IND)
1939 Plessiville (Quebec)
1939 Schenectady Black Sox
1940 Philadelphia Stars
(NNL)
1940-1945 Schenectady Black Sox
(IND)
1941-1942 Mohawk Giants (Schenectady City Semipro League)
1941-1942 Mohawk Colored Giants
(IND)
1946-1948 Albany Black Sox
(Twilight League)
1946-1948 Ewing All Stars
(IND)
1948 Spruill All Stars
(IND)
1949 Ewing All Stars
(IND)
Long, Carl
1951 Nashville Cubs
(NSL)
1952 Philadelphia Stars
(NAL)
1952-1953 Birmingham Black Barons
(NAL)
1953 Birmingham sold Long to Pittsburgh Pirates (MLBB)
1954 St. Jean Canadians
(Canadian Provincial League)
1954 Minot Mallards
(Mandak League)
(Tryout - Leeds, ND)
1955 Phoenix Stars
(Arizona-New Mexico League)
1955 Billings Mustangs
(Pioneer League)
1955 Waco
(Big State League)
1956 Kinston Eagles
(Carolina League)
1957 Mexico City Tigers
(Mexican League)
1957 Beaumont Pirates
(Big State League)
1958 Lincoln
(Western League)
1958-1961 Kinston Grays
(IND)
Winter Leagues:
1953 Negro American League All Stars
(IND)
1953 Birmingham Black Barons
(Barnstorming series vs Jackie Robinson All Stars)
1954 Birmingham Black Barons
(Barnstorming series vs Roy Campanella All Stars)
Negro League All Star Team (1953-East)
Carolina League RBI Leader:
(1956 - 111 RBI's - still league record)
Carolina League All Star Team
Long, Earnest
(The Kid)
(D)
(1956)
1945-1947 Chattanooga Choo Choos
1948 Cleveland Buckeyes
1949 Louisville Buckeyes
1950 Cleveland Buckeyes
(NSL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
(NAL)
Winter Leagues:
1948 Caracas, Venezuela (South America)
1949 Caracas, Venezuela (South America)
Negro League All Star Team
Long, George
(Owner - Executive
(1949)
- Player)
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(D)
1976-1983 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
(Purchased Clowns for $5,000 from Ed Hamman)
(Last remaining Negro team - played a barnstorming
schedule)
1928-1930 Muscatine Meccas
(Player)
(Sponsored by Mecca Cafe-Town Team)
1931-1936 Muscatine Independents
(Owner-Manager-Player)
1937-1944 Muscatine Red Sox
(Owner-Manager-Player)
(IND)
1930-1936 Muscatine Independents
(IND)
1937-1999 Muscatine Red Sox
(Owner - Semipro Team)
(Played in numerous Denver Post, National Baseball
Congress - Wichita Tournaments and other semipro
tournaments)
1937-1999 Muscatine Red Sox
(Mississippi Valley League)
Muscatine Red Sox
(Blackhawk Valley League)
(Record 67 winning seasons in a row. Record through 1997 Won 1,260 Lost 705 )
1970-1971 College All Stars
(Games vs Indianapolis Clowns played in Chicago White
Sox Park and County Stadium - Milwaukee)
(Team was basically Muscatine Red Sox)
1972 Mississippi Valley League
Iowa State Championship
(Secretary-Treasurer)
(1934)
Iowa Baseball Hall of Fame
Lothery, Russell
1947-1948 Detroit Brown Bombers
Lothery, Wilbur T.
(Toney)
1941-1943
1944-1946
1947-1948
1947-1951
Romeo High School
(High School Baseball)
U.S. Navy
(Military Baseball)
Detroit Brown Bombers
Grand Rapids Black Sox
Detroit Motor City Giants
1949 Mobile Red Sox
(Team based out of Detroit)
1947-1954 Pontiac Jets (Class A League)
(IND)
(IND)
(IND)
Love, Rodgers
1978-1985 Birmingport Pirates
1985-2001 Alden Cardinals
(BIL)
(BIL)
Lowe, Grady
1954-1956 Carver High School
(Del Ray Beach, Florida)
1954-1958 Lake Worth Brownies (Town Team)
1959 Detroit Stars
(NAL)
1960 Detroit-New Orleans Stars
(NAL)
1960 Kansas City Monarchs
(NAL)
1961 Detroit Stars
(NAL)
1961-1965 U.S. Army (Military Baseball)
Okinawa (Japan) and Korea
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1966-1973 Lake Worth Brownies (Town Team)
Luke, Syl
(Tony)
(Bat Boy - Bull Pen Catcher - Batting Practice Pitcher)
Lumpkin, Norman F.
(Geronimo)
(D)
Lundy, Walt
(D)
Luster, Frank
1943-1950 Cleveland Buckeyes
1950 Cleveland Buckeyes (Player)
(NAL)
(NAL)
1938 Good Year Life Guards
(Sponsored-Goodyear Tire & Rubber)
1938 Atlanta Scripto Black Cats
1939-1943 Atlanta Area Company Teams
Firestone Tire Co.
Atlantic Steel Co.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
1944-1946 Atlanta Braves
(Alabama-Georgia-Florida League)
1946-1947 Atlanta Black Crackers
1948-1949 New York Black Yankees
(NSL)
(IND)
1952-1955 Norfolk Eagles
(IND)
West End Giants
(IND)
Norfolk Tigers
(IND)
Norfolk Battling Palms
(IND)
1953-1956 Booker T. Washington High School
(High school football, basketball and baseball)
1954 Pittsburgh Pirates Tryout Camp
1955 Signed by Chicago White Sox (MLBB)
1955 Duluth-Superior
(Northern League)
1955 Assigned to Duluth but reassigned to Dubuque
1955 Dubuque Packers
(Midwest League)
1956 Holdrege White Sox
(Nebraska State League)
1957 Released by Chicago White Sox
1957 Indianapolis Clowns
(IND)
1957 New York Black Yankees
(IND)
1958 Detroit Clowns
(NAL)
1958-1970 Norfolk Tigers
(IND)
Norfolk Wildcats
(IND)
1939-1941
1941-1942
1943-1945
1943-1944
1946-1948
1946-1948
Douglas High School (Oklahoma City, OK)
Langston University (College Basketball)
U.S. Navy (Hastings Ammunition Depot) (NB)
Hastings (NB)
(Town Team)
Guthrie Black Spiders
(IND)
Langston University
(Lettered in football, basketball and track)
(Fifty-two game winning streak in basketball)
(Beat Harlem Globetrotters)
1948 Harlem Globetrotters - Turned down basketball contract
to coach high school sports
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