It was this sense of mystery combined with an increasing confidence that in fact all kinds of evidence was there to be found. Tipping their caps: paying homage to Negro Leagues on their 100th anniversary. 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. Rogers was one of the few players, black or white, who hit Satchel Paige consistently well. The league ended in like 1950 so a 20 yr old then would be 86/7 this year. Last I knew he was still alive but he is hard to contact sometimes. 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. Copyright 2020 NPR. Newt Allen: For 20 years, Newt starred as the Kansas City Monarchs slick-fielding 2nd baseman. Of them, only 9 are still alive as of Janury 26, 2023. Well Hank Aaron and Willie Mays are still alive. 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.. 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. His biggest thrill came in the 1924 Negro World Series when he shut out the Kansas City Monarchs for 7 innings in relief. Turkey Stearnes. An outfielder and a solid hitter, Page resides in Pittsburgh, where he operates a bowling alley. It has been 47 years since anyone last saw this man. The Encyclopedia and various books and projects over the years printed stats for a selection of Negro League stars," Ashwill explained -- picking and choosing what information to present, and often excluding players who appeared in fewer than 10 games. Bill Evans: Bill (Happy) Evans enjoyed a brief career with the Homestead Grays in the early 1930s. Charlie Neal Hank Aaron George Altman Maury Wills Donn Clendenon John Wyatt Blue Moon Odom Paul Casanova See also [ edit] List of starting black NFL quarterbacks List of black NHL players So you won't let me play with you. "Many of the players are gone, but their . 555 N. Central Ave. #416 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. Fortunately, that has recently changed with the recognition of the Negro Leagues as a Major League, but for decades that wasn't the case. To this day, no one apparently has any idea of his whereabouts or even whether he is still living. Although there are two players who played before 1946 none of them appeared in 1946, thus no players from 1946 are still alive. Streeters biggest thrill in baseball was to hit a home run. Mioso fell short on Golden Era votes in 2011 and 2014 . ", "So take a ballplayer like Monte Irvin, in 1948, who made $5,000 with the New YorkGiants," Lester said, "or $833.33 a month. Nat Rogers: Now 78 years old and a waiter at Memphis Peabody Hotel, Nat writes that he played for 45 consecutive seasons in organized baseball, compiling a batting average of over .340. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. "Going forward, in the 1930s following the Great Depression, salaries of Black players were about the same amount as the 1920s," Lester said. 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. He jumped to the Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League in 1923 and pitched with them for 2 years. SIERRA: Yeah, a hundred dollars a month. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. He stopped playing baseball when he was younger and became a Mason I believe. By August 1, 1947, three Major League teams had already integrated. Do you have a blog? All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. You can't really settle on a few sacred numbers the way you can for MLB records.. 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). Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. 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. Richard Kent, Sam Sheppard, Dr. J.W McClelland and Dr. G.B. He now operates a sporting goods store on the South Side. The second annual Honorary Negro League Game is a fundraiser for the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. That's almost 19 times what the Black players received. Wells, 66, is a New York City resident. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. In 2020, MLB recognized the Nego Leagues as major leagues. Larry Doby debuted with the Cleveland Indians on July 5. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. 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. Then in 1947, he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. I was wondering if there are any players left from those times, There's actually a good amount. He is Dean of Men at Alcorn College in Lorman, Mississippi, and also serves as baseball coach. Many of the men that played in the last era of the Negro Leagues (1937-1957) died in the past 18 years, and a good portion in the past ten or eleven years. Find out more. 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The Hilldale Club, the team that lost, took home $193.23. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Ray Dandridge: Fifty-eight year old Ray Dandridge lives in Newark, N.J., and is a scout for the San Francisco Giants. Because we compile fielding statistics, we're able to know that, for example, Dobie Moore, the Kansas City Monarchs shortstop in the 1920s, was a great fielding shortstop. Nat remembers a 31-game hitting streak as his best moment in baseball. TRIBOU: Minnie Forbes owned the Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958. 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. Recovering it is a constant, ongoing struggle. At their high point in mid-1930s, the team starred such greats as Biz Mackey, Jud Wilson, and Dick Lundy. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. A version of this story was first published in November, 2020, a few weeks before MLB announced that Negro League stats were being made part of the official record. But more interesting, in my opinion, are some of the larger patterns we've found. He continued his research with others like Kevin Johnson, Dan Hirsch, and Scott Simkus. Negro League Baseball historical stats. That mission continues today.\n\nAnd I really do mean today. Names of those who played in integrated organized white leagues are boldfaced, and those who played in integrated major leagues are also italicized. Major League Baseball announced this week the 1920-1948 Negro Leagues was recognized as major league, Families of Negro Leaguers rejoice in MLB's decision to recognize league, After vowing change, Black candidates shut out again of MLB front office jobs, Oscar Charleston who hit .400 multiple times, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. A select few were All-Stars and one (Aaron) was inducted into the Hall of Fame. The color line in baseball is also probably the most profound case of historical injustice in the history of modern sports -- and the injustice most definitely includes the failure to properly record both the identities and the achievements of thousands of professional ballplayers., Before the Seamheads database, Negro League statistics were sparse and spottily updated. A high average hitter and an excellent first baseman, Buck played in 12 All-Star games. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Keys bought the Giants franchise after the 1921 season and built the newly named Stars a stadium in '22. Sports Pulse: Players, celebs and politicians tip their hats in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues. All these early leagues were financially shaky. That means its taken countless hours of research to fill in the gaps and put together the database. From 1940 to 1949, 1,705 men played at least one game in the National League or American League plus hundreds, maybe thousands, more in the Negro Leagues. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Do you have a sports website? The integration of Major League Baseball happened at the beginning of the 1947 MLB season when Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro leagues themselves had become a . "There's a huge amount of information about Latin American baseball that still needs to be processed -- Black Americans played professional baseball in Mexico, Cuba . They played most of their careers in the organized Negro leagues before the Great Depression. America is about democracy and opportunity but it's also just as much about cash. DOUG TRIBOU, BYLINE: In 1920, owners of independent Black baseball teams from the Midwest gathered in Kansas City, Mo. Sports Reference . Yet there was still a feeling that many more had been missed. Today . Ernie Banks and Monte Irvin died a couple years ago. 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. He began his professional career in the Negro Leagues in the 1920s after being discharged from reform school in Alabama. , Season Summaries, Ballparks, Owners, Player Bios, 1946 Negro World Series, Contribute, But thousands of Black and Latino players endured bigotry and racist taunts. An excellent all-round ballplayer and a teammate of such greats as Josh Gibson and Oscar Charleston, Jimmie is a Chicago resident where he is employed at the post office. List of Negro league baseball players (M-R) This list consists of players who have appeared in Negro league baseball . I knew about it. A native of Texas, Brown is reported to have pitched as early as 1917 with the Dallas Black Giants. The complete list is divided into four pages to reduce the size: The players below are some of the most notable of those who played Negro league baseball, beginning with the codification of baseball's color line barring African American players (about 1892), past the re-integration in 1946 of the sport, up until the Negro leagues finally expired about 1962. Just this month, and nearly 80 years after Suttles career ended, Ashwill was able to add two more home runs to his tally, bringing his total to 32.\n\nBasically, 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. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. The World Series winners that same year earned $5,959.64 and the losers $3,820.29. **For the best user experience, we recommend disabling the Reddit redesign. But Minnie Forbes sympathizes with the many athletes who were good enough to play in the major leagues but never got a shot. 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. '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. Paige, now 65 and a Kansas City resident, is by far the best known of these old stars. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. WANTED: INFORMATION ON DAVE BROWN. "Well, in the case of the Negro leagues the historical record is (and in many cases always will be) incomplete, Ashwill wrote. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. 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. An additional 35 or so players played on a Negro league team after 1950. 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. 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. How Cool Papa Bell was so fast that he could hit the light switch and be in bed before the lights went out. MINNIE. All rights reserved. Register now to join us on March 10-12, 2023, in Phoenix, AZ. As with any sports league, I have to assume that there are still plenty of unknown or lesser known players still out there. Chris Haughey is the last player alive from 1943 and Tommy Brown is the last player alive from 1944, 1945 and 1947. The service requires full JavaScript support in order to view this website. 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. Mays played. We already knew they were equals, of course, it's just official now. He says his greatest thrill was a home-run he hit in the 1940 classic in Chicago. An additional 35 or so players played on a Negro league team after 1950. They played primarily before the organized Negro leagues. Or write about sports? 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. Baseball needs to retroactivelypay the newly recognized Negro League players and their surviving families. Today, stars like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. 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 Hardball historians, however, are out there keeping the Negro Leagues alive. Frank Duncan: A Kansas City native, Frank, 69, now operates a tavern in his home town. Foster still retains a strong interest in baseball. The records, as they proved with Suttles, are not static either. Now 71, and a Pittsburgh resident, Sam says that Smokey Joe Williams was the greatest pitcher he ever saw while slugger Mule Suttles gave him the most trouble at the plate. Contact SABR, https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/research-collection4_350x300.jpg, /wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.png. 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. From 1940 to 1949, 1,705 men played at least one game in the National League or American League plus hundreds, maybe thousands, more in the Negro Leagues. I know it seems that the civil rights movement was a while go, but it's truly just recent. BOB KENDRICK: They had no idea they were making history. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. Don Newcombe (6/14/1926) played one season for the Newark Eagles before being allowed to sign with the Dodgers, where he went on to become the first person to win MVP and Cy Young in the same season (1956, the first year the Cy Young was introduced). The service requires full cookie support in order to view this website. Suttles pictured back row, far left. Founded in 1990, the museum is the only one in the world . There would be the Royals dressed as the Monarchs, the Tigers as the Stars, the Pirates as the Crawfords or Grays, Triple-A Memphis as the Red Sox, Double-A Birmingham as the Black Barons, High-A. America's Pastime. He played for the Louisville Clippers, and later was traded with Jesse Mitchell to the Birmingham Black Barons for a used team bus. 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. 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. Cronkite School at ASU His salary was less than 5% of what white players were earning. Data Provided By 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 leagues were full of talent and it went beyond the names you may know like Mays or Satchel Paige. 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. Ted Page: Ted starred with the great Josh Gibson on the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays in the 1930s. Many thanks to him. Chuck Harmon played under alias of Charlie Fine for the Clowns so as not to violate his college basketball eligibility. Willie Wells: A .338 lifetime hitter, Willie Wells is often called the best shortstop to play in the black leagues. March 10, 2007 - William "Bill' Van Buren passes away. Center for Negro League Baseball Research, First black player for St. Louis Browns and New York Giants, First black player for Philadelphia Athletics, First black player for Pittsburgh Pirates, "Negro League Players Who Made the Major Leagues", "Negro Leaguers Who Served With The Armed Forces in WWII", List of Negro league baseball postseason games, Atlanta Black Crackers/Indianapolis ABCs (IV), Indianapolis ABCs (II)/New OrleansSt. 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. 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. O'Neil served as a representative of the Negro Leagues on the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee from 1981-2000, and 11 Negro Leagues players were inducted through 2001 for a total of 18. Leroy "Satchel" Paige was bigger than mere numbers. Copyright 2000-2022 Sports Reference LLC. Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with a . They also represent something else. Rookies earned $75 and the stars $375. While baseball acknowledgingthese Black players is important, it should only be a first step. 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." Apocryphal stories surround Paige, who was born July 7, 1906 in Mobile, Ala. 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. 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. A speedy switch-hitter, Newt writes that Martin Dihigo and Dave Brown were the two greatest pitchers he ever faced. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. The unparalleled Rube Foster started the first Negro League in 1920, with such dominant teams as the Chicago American Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs. But there are a group of researchers led by Gary Ashwill who are looking to change that. Is there any way to possibly send a baseball to try and get signed by Biddle. They didn't care about making history. I heard about it, but I hadn't experienced it. That started to change in the 1980s and early 90s as researchers like Dick Clark, Larry Lester, John Holway, James Riley and Phil Dixon began assembling a more robust statistical record. the Negro Leagues weren't even considered. There's also Charley Pride (3/18/1935), famous country singer and one of the only black people to perform on Grand Ole Opry. The list does not include Negro league players who only played in the minor leagues and White Hispanic players who played in both the Negro Leagues and MLB prior to full integration (ex. Of them, only 9 are still alive as of Janury 26, 2023. Josh Gibson, If history belongs to the record keepers, then these record keepers weren't interested. A good right-handed hitter, Duncan is always mentioned as one of black baseballs best catchers. You know their stories, like how Paige once told his outfielders to sit down while he struck out the side. He grew up in Cuba and says it was tough to adjust to segregation and racism he saw in the U.S. PEDRO SIERRA: It wasn't easy to see all the problems with the race. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Paige probably took a pay cut when he joined the Cleveland Indians in 1948.". 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 Eventually, these two groups joined forces to create one comprehensive database. If baseball (rightfully) believes that recognizing those players is important (and it is) then why not fully recognize them? Black players earnedless because they were Jim Crow'd. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. 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. Then I'll create my own. 1924 Kansas City Monarchs, A great 3rd baseman, Dandridge compiled a .455 batting average in 3 Negro All-Star games. 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. 1933 Homestead Grays, The coming seasons brought many more signings. 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. Born September 3, 1924 Bill Greason is the oldest player on this list. January 29, 2007 - Ralph "Big Cat" Johnson passes away. Center for Negro League Baseball Research. This page was last edited on 27 January 2023, at 00:27. This article originally appeared in the 1972 Baseball Research Journal. 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 . List of living major league players from the 1940s, List of living members of World Series-winning teams, List of living major league players from the 1950s, https://www.baseball-reference.com/bpv/index.php?title=List_of_living_major_league_players_from_the_1940s&oldid=1264856, Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball. 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. ","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. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum estimates there are about 100 former players still alive. Simkus says the work taught him how important major league recognition would be for the families of Negro Leagues veterans, few of whom are still alive. The museum has pushed back its year-long celebration of the centennial to next year and renamed it Negro Leagues 101. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. 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. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. 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. List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball. Among the most captivating features of Stars Park was the trolley car building that served as the left-field barrier. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? 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. Satchel Paige, Born May 6, 1931, Willie Mays is the youngest. As Lou Moore, a professor at Grand Valley State University, noted: from 1949 to 1959 - two years after Jackie Robinson's debut season - former Negro League players won all but two of the. . 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.","type":"markdown"},{"__typename":"PhotoPart","caption":"The 1930 St. Louis Stars. What about the other great players? We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. The star pitcher for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro National League in the early 1920s was a young left-hander named Dave Brown. But you dont know their numbers -- at least, not with the same devotion baseball fans have to statistics like Ted Williams .406 batting average or Hank Aarons 755 home runs. This list comprises players who have appeared in Negro league baseball. So, for example we've put together the first comprehensive analysis of Negro League park effects, and incorporated that into our metrics, Ashwill wrote. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. But before Paige there was baseball's serial pay disparity. 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. 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. And I really do mean today. Suttles pictured back row, far left. pic.twitter.com/qiMXrVD4RB. Allens best baseball memory is an unassisted triple play he made in the early 1930s.
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