The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Join our linker program. He now operates a sporting goods store on the South Side. Major League Players. A great 3rd baseman, Dandridge compiled a .455 batting average in 3 Negro All-Star games. The stories, however, keep alive the memory of a man who became bigger than the game. Over at the Seamheads Negro Leagues database, a dedicated few have combed through newspapers and scorebooks, photo albums and microfiche to piece together the most complete statistical record of the Negro Leagues to date. A native of Talladega, Alabama, Scales now lives in New York City. Buck lives in Rocky Mount, N.C., where he owns a realty agency. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. It's just that you rarely get where are they nows on the guys who played 3-4 forgettable seasons,whether they were in 1930s or 1990s. You knew the disparity in pay would be bad, but that gap is embarrassing for baseball. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. So they slept in the buses. 1920 Chicago American Giants, List of Negro league baseball players (AD), List of Negro league baseball players (EL), List of Negro league baseball players (MR), List of Negro league baseball players (SZ), List of first black MLB players by team and date, List of player profiles from the Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lists_of_Negro_league_baseball_players&oldid=1087987010, This page was last edited on 15 May 2022, at 16:27. Today . Soon he became involved in the Negro League Researchers and Authors Group and helped with an extensive study commissioned by the Hall of Fame and Major League Baseball. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Or write about sports? Jack Marshall: A star 2nd baseman for most of the top Chicago ballclubs, Jack still lives in the Windy City. Of them, only 9 are still alive as of Janury 26, 2023. Streeters biggest thrill in baseball was to hit a home run. Third baseman Hank Thompson appeared in a game for the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) on July 17, two days before outfielder Willard Brown joined him on the Browns' roster. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. FORBES: And I just wonder if I'm worthy of representing, speaking about the Negro League because when I got involved, things was easier for me than it was for the one before me. The list of teams with which he played includes the largely forgotten Miami Globetrotters, Hollywood Redbirds, Miami Red Sox, Belle Glade Redwings, Florida Cuban Giants, the Lucky Stars, the Danny Dodgers; Ft. Lauderdale Braves, Pompano Beach Yankees, Ft. Lauderdale Lucky Stars, Ft. Lauderdale Gray Sox, and the Buffalo Red Sox (a travelling team that appears to have played many of its games in West Virginia and Pennsylvania). Major League Baseball announced this week the 1920-1948 Negro Leagues was recognized as major league, meaning Black players who played during those years are officially acknowledgedas the same as their white counterparts. "I always really, really wanted to get the full workup for those guys -- walks, on-base percentage, fielding stats, home runs allowed by pitchers -- so you could tell what kind of players they were, how they fit into their teams, how the teams compared to each other. In Cleveland, Larry Doby became the first Black player in the American League. I believe the oldest living Negro League ballplayer is Roosevelt Jackson. ","type":"markdown"},{"__typename":"ExternalEmbed","data":{"__typename":"ExternalEmbedContent","html":", #Spotlight In February of 1920, The Chicago Defender previewed the formation of the Negro National League - Kansas City Selected for Meeting of Baseball Magnates - https://t.co/VANcXcLmL0 pic.twitter.com/KfBEDCalWr, A copy of the 1969 Macmillan baseball encyclopedia for show and tell @sabr. Black players earnedless because they were Jim Crow'd. At that meeting, they created the Negro National League. Newt still makes Kansas City his home. While the weeklies tried to cover every game they could, deadlines and limited space meant they often had to leave out a few games. Pre-integration players. That's about five times more in salary than Black players. The 1930 St. Louis Stars. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. When I began speaking with Ashwill about the database in September, Hall of Fame slugger Mule Suttles held the Negro Leagues single-season home run record with the 30 that he hit as a member of the St. Louis Stars in 1926. The responsibility to elect Negro leagues players shifted to the Hall's Veterans Committee, but with Roy Campanella as the only Black member, the committee was hamstrung by its lack of knowledge . Or write about sports? A high average hitter and an excellent first baseman, Buck played in 12 All-Star games. For example, here, courtesy of Ashwill, are the pages from a 1941-42 Baltimore Elite Giants scorebook showing the Elites beating the Philadelphia Stars on Aug. 16, 1942: The biggest myth of them all is that the history of Negro League baseball is nothing but blurry, hard-to-substantiate legends and tall tales, Ashwill wrote in an email to MLB.com. He . Suttles home run record isnt the only record theyve discovered. Ray Brown, , 1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords, After spotting the Black newspaper The Chicago Defender in his universitys library stacks and knowing its historical importance, he dove into the reels for the 1920 season and was surprised to see incredibly thorough coverage and box scores for the Negro National League. Major League Baseball has a day to honor the leagues set for next month. They went out and did something about it. So the problem of whether Roosevelt Jackson is a veteran of the Negro Leagues is really one of semantics. Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with a . But thousands of Black and Latino players endured bigotry and racist taunts. Paige, now 65 and a Kansas City resident, is by far the best known of these old stars. Meanwhile you still have jackalopes foaming at the mouth that girls shouldn't be allowed to play high school ball. The most important sources are the Black weekly newspapers (Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, Baltimore Afro-American, Kansas City Call, etc.) Researchers are still looking to add fielding statistics, left/right splits and secondary pitching and batting stats for many Negro League seasons, especially those in the 1940s. For our latest update I checked through the mainstream daily newspapers in St. Louis and picked up three more St. Louis Stars games -- and Suttles homered in two of them.. and daily newspapers in cities where games were played. Ted says shortstop John Henry Lloyd was the greatest ballplayer he ever saw. A select few were All-Stars and one (Aaron) was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Josh Gibson, This article was written byJohn M. Coates, This article was published in 1972 Baseball Research Journal, The recent election of Satchel Paige to the Hall of Fame brings back memories of the old Negro leagues and the men who starred in them. A lifetime .312 hitter, Ray remembers 1950 as a banner year when he was selected as MVP in the Triple-A American Association, while playing with the Minneapolis Millers. The numbers do not do justice to his legend. All rights reserved. America is about democracy and opportunity but it's also just as much about cash. TRIBOU: Pedro Sierra pitched in the Negro Leagues for several seasons in the 1950s. I know it seems that the civil rights movement was a while go, but it's truly just recent. 'THEY TRULY DESERVE IT:'Families of Negro Leaguers rejoice in MLB's decision to recognize league, OPINION: After vowing change, Black candidates shut out again of MLB front office jobs. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. The 57 Texas native was certainly one of the smartest players of his day. And they couldn't go in places to eat, so one person would go to the back door and get the food for all the players. So you won't let me play with you. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. Since the Negro Leauges were still around several years after Jackie Robinson's debut, I would imagine there are still a few dozen former players who are still alive. But more interesting, in my opinion, are some of the larger patterns we've found. Please enable JavaScript on your browser and try again. I wanted to see them as flesh and blood people, real players who had the same kinds of complex profiles we have for players today. 2006 Negro League Baseball News December 17, 2006 - Willard Brown inducted to LA. Aside from him, we also have Mamie "Peanut" Johnson (9/27/1935), the first female pitcher in the Negro Leagues. The list of teams with which he played includes the largely forgotten Miami Globetrotters, Hollywood Redbirds, Miami Red Sox, Belle Glade Redwings, Florida Cuban Giants, the Lucky Stars, the Danny Dodgers; Ft. Lauderdale Braves, Pompano Beach Yankees, Ft. Lauderdale Lucky Stars, Ft. Lauderdale Gray Sox, and the Buffalo Red Sox (a travelling team Just think, he was playing baseball on a team that would become the Homestead Grays years before the US entered World War 1, but he lived long enough to become a fan of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. But Minnie Forbes sympathizes with the many athletes who were good enough to play in the major leagues but never got a shot. I first saw this idea mentioned in one sentence in a Deadspin story and wondered why this wasn't something discussed much more than it has been. The league ended in like 1950 so a 20 yr old then would be 86/7 this year. Sports Reference . We present them here for purely educational purposes. Foster still retains a strong interest in baseball. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. But there are a group of researchers led by Gary Ashwill who are looking to change that. Turkey Stearnes. Join our linker program. Jackie Robinson had an immediate impact on baseball's short and long-term future. A select few were All-Stars and one (Aaron) was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Created a hundred years ago, the leagues showcased Black baseball players, players who couldn't play on the major teams because of the color of their skin. The coming seasons brought many more signings. The Hilldale Club, the team that lost, took home $193.23. ***** Marshall remembers occasionally playing 4 games a day when he was with the Philadelphia Stars and he says Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher he ever saw. Lester said the average monthly salary of a Black player in the early 1920s was $175 a month. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account. Wells, 66, is a New York City resident. 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Eventually, these two groups joined forces to create one comprehensive database. What about the other great players? In fact, that's my long-term goal: to write a Negro League Baseball Abstract. Keys bought the Giants franchise after the 1921 season and built the newly named Stars a stadium in '22. "Well, in the case of the Negro leagues the historical record is (and in many cases always will be) incomplete, Ashwill wrote. Some defensive statistics Copyright Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2022. So, for example we've put together the first comprehensive analysis of Negro League park effects, and incorporated that into our metrics, Ashwill wrote. Then in 1947, he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Many thanks to him. MINNIE FORBES: It was terrible for the players at that time. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, The subreddit for the bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players. List of Negro league baseball players (A-D) List of Negro league baseball players (E-L) List of Negro league baseball players (M-R) List of Negro league baseball players (S-Z) Contents: M N O P Q R References The service requires full cookie support in order to view this website. Tipping their caps: paying homage to Negro Leagues on their 100th anniversary. There are a variety of reasons for that, Ashwill said, including a lack of capital and other resources, looser organization and less of a press infrastructure covering them.. Although there are two players who played before 1946 none of them appeared in 1946, thus no players from 1946 are still alive. Paige was the first Negro League player inducted . TRIBOU: Minnie Forbes owned the Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958. They played primarily before the organized Negro leagues. I grew up with the distinct impression that no statistics could ever be compiled, that it was often unclear what happened at all, and that it was more or less impossible to find out anything for sure about many of the players., Our friends at Seamheads have added new 1926 statistics to their #SABR award-winning Negro Leagues Database, including a record-setting season by Mule Suttles: https://t.co/sCWIvkVMuB @scott_simkus @KJOKBASEBALL @DanHirsch pic.twitter.com/WlQhzB8q4u. We already knew they were equals, of course, it's just official now. Is there any way to possibly send a baseball to try and get signed by Biddle. **, Press J to jump to the feed. Pedro Dibut). DOUG TRIBOU, BYLINE: In 1920, owners of independent Black baseball teams from the Midwest gathered in Kansas City, Mo. A member of 8 All-Star squads, Willie remembers a home run he hit in 1931 to win the pennant for St. Louis as his greatest baseball thrill. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. His biggest thrill came in the 1924 Negro World Series when he shut out the Kansas City Monarchs for 7 innings in relief. Buck lives in Rocky Mount, N.C., where he owns a realty agency. 1928 St. Louis Stars, This List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball is largely based on the research compiled by the Center for Negro League Baseball Research. To this day, no one apparently has any idea of his whereabouts or even whether he is still living. Baseball needs to retroactivelypay the newly recognized Negro League players and their surviving families. I knew about it. Silas Simmons played in the pre-Negro League era, and he passed away just a decade ago. If you think white players made more money because they were more talented that's just false. Hank Aaron and Willie Mays also began their careers in the Negro Leagues. The list includes those who played on major Negro league teams prior to integration (and any caliber Negro league team after integration) as well as in Major League Baseball. Larry Doby debuted with the Cleveland Indians on July 5. , Season Summaries, Ballparks, Owners, Player Bios, 1946 Negro World Series, Contribute, Basically, our earlier version of the 1926 Negro National League relied heavily on the Black weekly newspapers for games played in St. Louis -- in this case the Chicago Defender (which was distributed nationally) and the St. Louis Argus, Ashwill wrote. Buck Leonard: Walter (Buck) Leonard combined with Josh Gibson for Negro baseball's best 1-2 home-run punch. America's Pastime. He was known to be a great hitter, but I don't think it was fully appreciated how pivotal he was to the Monarchs' defense.. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. January 29, 2007 - Ralph "Big Cat" Johnson passes away. Willie Wells: A .338 lifetime hitter, Willie Wells is often called the best shortstop to play in the black leagues. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. List of Negro league baseball players (M-R) This list consists of players who have appeared in Negro league baseball . the Negro Leagues weren't even considered. And now I look back and I say, oh, my God. Major League Baseball has finally decided that players from the Negro Leagues should be considered Major Leaguers. Recovering it is a constant, ongoing struggle. O'Neil also made history when the Cubs hired him as a coach in 1962, making him the first Black member of an AL/NL coaching staff as part of Chicago's "College of Coaches." Negro League Players Who Made the Major Leagues Player Negro League Team Major League Team Debut Year Jackie Robinson Kansas City Monarchs Brooklyn Dodgers 1947 Larry Doby Newark Eagles Cleveland Indians 1947 Hank Thompson Kansas City Monarchs St. Louis Browns 1947 Willard Brown Kansas City Monarchs St. Louis Browns 1947 . Eventually, these two groups joined forces to create one comprehensive database. There was Oscar Charleston who hit .400 multiple times. One of two players in history to win the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and MVP in his career (Verlander being the other). March 10, 2007 - William "Bill' Van Buren passes away. Then I'll create my own. But you've got to establish a basic record first.. Please enable cookies on your browser and try again. Do you have a blog? Part of that was simply how the Negro Leagues recorded their statistics, which wasn't as robust a system as the Major Leagues'. Today, stars like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rogers was one of the few players, black or white, who hit Satchel Paige consistently well. In 1924, the first year of the Colored World Series, the share of the winners, the Kansas City Monarchs, was $307.96, says Lester. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Find out more. He is Dean of Men at Alcorn College in Lorman, Mississippi, and also serves as baseball coach. At the onset of the digital age, enough now-aging players were still alive to share their experiences. pic.twitter.com/qiMXrVD4RB. Ray Dandridge: Fifty-eight year old Ray Dandridge lives in Newark, N.J., and is a scout for the San Francisco Giants. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum estimates there are about 100 former players still alive. This process is automatic. Pittsburgh soon produced two of the greatest teams of all time, the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, featuring such stars as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and many more. **For the best user experience, we recommend disabling the Reddit redesign. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. Just a humbling reminder that Jim Crow laws and segregation was less than a generation ago. KENDRICK: These athletes never cried about the social injustice. Sam Streeter: The star pitcher for the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the 1930s, Sam pitched for the West in the inaugural Negro leagues All-Star game in 1933. , Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 12:52AM. This list comprises players who have appeared in Negro league baseball. "Many of the players are gone, but their . Yet there was still a feeling that many more had been missed. As it stands, Newcombe is the oldest living man to play in the Negro Leagues at their major-league level. Data Provided By The second annual Honorary Negro League Game is a fundraiser for the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Born May 6, 1931, Willie Mays is the youngest. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. During his long career, Frank played on 7 pennant-winners with the Kansas City Monarchs. Thats the type of work that Ashwill, who currently works as a freelance academic editor and runs the Agate Type baseball blog, has done since he began researching the Negro Leagues 20 years ago. The service requires full JavaScript support in order to view this website. Willie Foster: Called by many the greatest left-handed pitcher in the black leagues, Willie won 4 World Series games in his long career, and may be the only pitcher, black or white, to have pitched a complete 9-inning All-Star game. Born May 6, 1931, Willie Mays is the youngest. Phoenix, AZ 85004 A lot of the earlier versions of Negro league statistics only gave you batting averages, home runs, pitchers' won-lost records, basic stuff," Ashwill said. After contacting Lester, co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and chairman of SABR's Negro Leagues Research Committee, he provided data that was absolutely staggering. Nat remembers a 31-game hitting streak as his best moment in baseball. Major League Baseball was segregated from 1887 through 1946. We know which were the pitchers' parks (Chicago's Schorling Park, for example) and which were the hitters' parks (Stars Park in St. Louis and the Catholic Protectory Oval in the Bronx, home of the New York Lincoln Giants). All 3,400 players from 1920 to 1948 will be elevated to MLB status. 555 N. Central Ave. #416 Leroy "Satchel" Paige was bigger than mere numbers. Ted Page: Ted starred with the great Josh Gibson on the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays in the 1930s. He continued his research with others like Kevin Johnson, Dan Hirsch, and Scott Simkus. It has been 47 years since anyone last saw this man. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. That mission continues today. This data is based on actual contracts I have seen. Lee lives in Washington, D.C. George Scales: One of the strongest-hitting 2nd basemen of his time and a .311 lifetime hitter, George played in the big-time for nearly 25 years with 6 different clubs. A speedy switch-hitter, Newt writes that Martin Dihigo and Dave Brown were the two greatest pitchers he ever faced. With the game still years away from the multimillion-dollar contracts handed to star players, Aaron's annual pay in 1959 was around $30,000. I read Bill James in the 1980s, and I wanted a Negro League Baseball Abstract. Use Mays, Greason, Golden and Teasley as the faces of a compensation plan, like lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit, and account for what was a wide disparity in pay between Black and white players during those 28 years. Now a Los Angeles resident, Evans remembers playing against almost every great ballplayer, black and white, during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Chicago Team History, Like O'Neil, Minnie Mioso was still alive when he was denied entry in 2006, mostly because his time was so short in the Negro Leagues. It wouldn't even cost baseball that much money particularly since salaries of Negro League players began to increase in the 1940s as their play became so good they were practically impossible to ignore, and as Jackie Robinson started his trek towards history. A native of Texas, Brown is reported to have pitched as early as 1917 with the Dallas Black Giants. But before Paige there was baseball's serial pay disparity. TRIBOU: Jackie Robinson played briefly in the Negro Leagues. Of them, only 9 are still alive as of Janury 26, 2023. Only a few members of the leagues are alive to celebrate the centennial. The other is that sources like the Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia -- which basically set the standard for baseball statistics when it was released in 1969 -- wasn't all that invested in featuring Negro League records. James Bell: Cool Papa Bell was probably the fastest ball player ever to don spikes. Bell, who regularly went from 1st base to 3rd on sacrifice bunts, enjoyed his peak years with the St. Louis Stars and Pittsburgh Crawfords in the early 1930s. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Those four names aren't just pieces of data, or clickable things on a site, they are human beings who excelled despiteliving under the thick anvilof segregation. Players he signed as a scout with Chicago then the Royals included Lou Brock, Oscar Gamble, Lee Smith and Joe Carter. Register now to join us on March 10-12, 2023, in Phoenix, AZ. A high average hitter and an excellent first baseman, Buck played in 12 All-Star games. RHP Satchel Paige: The most famous Negro Leagues player, the age-defying Paige stayed young long enough to pitch in the majors -- including the World Series -- as a 42-year-old rookie in 1948. He continued his research with others like Kevin Johnson, Dan Hirsch, and Scott Simkus. As protests over racial injustice in the U.S. continue, Major League Baseball is marking the anniversary of the Negro Leagues. A good right-handed hitter, Duncan is always mentioned as one of black baseballs best catchers. TRIBOU: And they did. Its also why there are always new updates. Hardball historians, however, are out there keeping the Negro Leagues alive. Remembered as one of the few hurlers Josh Gibson had trouble hitting against, Lee writes that Martin Dihigo was the greatest player he ever saw. That's almost 19 times what the Black players received. Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. Soon he became involved in the Negro League Researchers and Authors Group and helped with an extensive study commissioned by the Hall of Fame and Major League Baseball. How Cool Papa Bell was so fast that he could hit the light switch and be in bed before the lights went out. This List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball is largely based on the research compiled by the Center for Negro League Baseball Research. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. TRIBOU: Minnie Forbes will keep sharing her stories with younger generations, and others will, too. Of course, Josh Gibson and some of the other big names have passed on, but a lot of the legendary stars are still alive and well and living in well, why dont we call the roll of some of the more familiar names, men like . While there are roughly 130 players alive from the Negro Leagues, according to baseball historian Larry Lester, only those four players are alive from that 1920-1948 window. A charity baseball game that paid tribute to the Negro Leagues and their significance to the sport was held at Sacramento State's John Smith Field on Oct. 9. Contact SABR, https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/research-collection4_350x300.jpg, /wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.png.
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