And now I look back and I say, oh, my God. Born May 6, 1931, Willie Mays is the youngest. Dan Bankhead Sam Bankhead Bob Boyd Ray Brown Willard Brown Bill Byrd Roy Campanella Buster Clarkson Jimmie Crutchfield Ray Dandridge Leon Day Larry Doby Luke Easter Wilmer Fields Josh Gibson Junior Gilliam Sammy Hughes Monte Irvin Just a humbling reminder that Jim Crow laws and segregation was less than a generation ago. As protests over racial injustice in the U.S. continue, Major League Baseball is honoring the Negro Leagues that showcased Black baseball players at a time the sport was segregated. 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 . They played most of their careers in the organized Negro leagues after the Great Depression. You know their stories, like how Paige once told his outfielders to sit down while he struck out the side. Cronkite School at ASU Chicago Team History, The 57 Texas native was certainly one of the smartest players of his day. Satchel Paige, Today . Eventually, these two groups joined forces to create one comprehensive database. Of these, nine have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and two of them (Greason and Mays) are still alive. Accuracy and availability may vary. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Its also why there are always new updates. Sports Reference . ", "So take a ballplayer like Monte Irvin, in 1948, who made $5,000 with the New YorkGiants," Lester said, "or $833.33 a month. This page was last edited on 27 January 2023, at 00:27. 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. , Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 12:52AM. 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. 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. Aside from him, we also have Mamie "Peanut" Johnson (9/27/1935), the first female pitcher in the Negro Leagues. But more interesting, in my opinion, are some of the larger patterns we've found. 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. Keys bought the Giants franchise after the 1921 season and built the newly named Stars a stadium in '22. Buck Leonard: Walter (Buck) Leonard combined with Josh Gibson for Negro baseball's best 1-2 home-run punch. A native of Texas, Brown is reported to have pitched as early as 1917 with the Dallas Black Giants. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article originally appeared in the 1972 Baseball Research Journal. Theyve established -- though its no surprise -- that the speedy Bell holds the single-season record with 49 stolen bases for the Stars in 1929. Willie Wells: A .338 lifetime hitter, Willie Wells is often called the best shortstop to play in the black leagues. And I really do mean today. Although there are two players who played before 1946 none of them appeared in 1946, thus no players from 1946 are still alive. 2006 Negro League Baseball News December 17, 2006 - Willard Brown inducted to LA. All rights reserved. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Major leagueplayersreceived from $300 to $2,000 a month and about $15 a day for meals. 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. FORBES: Unfortunately, some of the good players, by the time that the time came, they were too old to play. Suttles pictured back row, far left. It was this sense of mystery combined with an increasing confidence that in fact all kinds of evidence was there to be found. 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). He says his greatest thrill was a home-run he hit in the 1940 classic in Chicago. Streeters biggest thrill in baseball was to hit a home run. A high average hitter and an excellent first baseman, Buck played in 12 All-Star games. Richard Kent, Sam Sheppard, Dr. J.W McClelland and Dr. G.B. They receivedbetween $1 to $1.50 a day for meal money. A select few were All-Stars and one (Aaron) was inducted into the Hall of Fame. You can't really settle on a few sacred numbers the way you can for MLB records.. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Data Provided By Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Suttles pictured back row, far left. Do you have a sports website? They went out and did something about it. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. 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. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. 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." In fact, that's my long-term goal: to write a Negro League Baseball Abstract. Bill Greason, Clyde Golden, Ron Teasley and Willie Mays. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. That means its taken countless hours of research to fill in the gaps and put together the database. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. 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. 1920 Chicago American Giants, All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Baseball needs to retroactivelypay the newly recognized Negro League players and their surviving families. From there, he started collecting box scores and compiling statistics pretty much right away, Ashwill said. Today, stars like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. A great 3rd baseman, Dandridge compiled a .455 batting average in 3 Negro All-Star games. Jackie Robinson had an immediate impact on baseball's short and long-term future. 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). Josh Gibson holds the all-time home run record with 238 and Smokey Joe Williams struck out 1,571 batters in his 25-year career. Bill Evans: Bill (Happy) Evans enjoyed a brief career with the Homestead Grays in the early 1930s. **For the best user experience, we recommend disabling the Reddit redesign. Following the 1924 season, he disappeared after a homicide in New York. Now 66, Bell lives in St. Louis where he is a guard at City Hall. Pedro Dibut). So, for example we've put together the first comprehensive analysis of Negro League park effects, and incorporated that into our metrics, Ashwill wrote. Now a Los Angeles resident, Evans remembers playing against almost every great ballplayer, black and white, during the late 1920s and early 1930s. 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. 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). Then in 1947, he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. This is a list of the last handful of living major leaguers from the 1940s. Foster still retains a strong interest in baseball. Only a few members of the leagues are alive to celebrate the centennial. Rogers was one of the few players, black or white, who hit Satchel Paige consistently well. 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. While baseball acknowledgingthese Black players is important, it should only be a first step. He is Dean of Men at Alcorn College in Lorman, Mississippi, and also serves as baseball coach. 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. An outfielder and a solid hitter, Page resides in Pittsburgh, where he operates a bowling alley. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. "Going forward, in the 1930s following the Great Depression, salaries of Black players were about the same amount as the 1920s," Lester said. Suttles home run record isnt the only record theyve discovered. 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. Many thanks to him. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 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. 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. Or write about sports? How Cool Papa Bell was so fast that he could hit the light switch and be in bed before the lights went out. Negro League Baseball historical stats. Founded in 1990, the museum is the only one in the world . 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. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. We already knew they were equals, of course, it's just official now. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. To this day, no one apparently has any idea of his whereabouts or even whether he is still living. 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. Lester said the average monthly salary of a Black player in the early 1920s was $175 a month. But before Paige there was baseball's serial pay disparity. pic.twitter.com/qiMXrVD4RB. They also represent something else. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. 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. Some defensive statistics Copyright Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2022. If history belongs to the record keepers, then these record keepers weren't interested. Buck O'Neil, Join our linker program. Part of that was simply how the Negro Leagues recorded their statistics, which wasn't as robust a system as the Major Leagues'. Buck lives in Rocky Mount, N.C., where he owns a realty agency. Ted Page: Ted starred with the great Josh Gibson on the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays in the 1930s. Dennis Biddle lives down the street from my grandparents. But there are a group of researchers led by Gary Ashwill who are looking to change that. The league ended in like 1950 so a 20 yr old then would be 86/7 this year. The stories, however, keep alive the memory of a man who became bigger than the game. Is there any way to possibly send a baseball to try and get signed by Biddle. 1928 St. Louis Stars, As protests over racial injustice in the U.S. continue, Major League Baseball is marking the anniversary of the Negro Leagues. While the weeklies tried to cover every game they could, deadlines and limited space meant they often had to leave out a few games. He continued his research with others like Kevin Johnson, Dan Hirsch, and Scott Simkus. 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. The Hilldale Club, the team that lost, took home $193.23. Ted says shortstop John Henry Lloyd was the greatest ballplayer he ever saw. They played primarily before the organized Negro leagues. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Rookies earned $75 and the stars $375. But thousands of Black and Latino players endured bigotry and racist taunts. He turns 100 on December 20th, 2017. 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. Please enable JavaScript on your browser and try again. the Negro Leagues weren't even considered. TRIBOU: And they did. In 1934, led by 20-year-old left-hander Slim Jones, the Stars defeated the Chicago American Giants in a controversial playoff series, four games to three, for the Negro National League pennant. Fortunately, that has recently changed with the recognition of the Negro Leagues as a Major League, but for decades that wasn't the case. 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. Pre-integration players. All rights reserved. His salary was less than 5% of what white players were earning. Ray Dandridge: Fifty-eight year old Ray Dandridge lives in Newark, N.J., and is a scout for the San Francisco Giants. Remember these four names: Rev. Do you have a blog? ","contextualCaption":null,"contextualAspectRatio":null,"credit":null,"format":"jpg","templateUrl":"https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/{formatInstructions}/v1605643461/mlb/lv9mhm1fsyjmr30kii4r","type":"photo"},{"__typename":"Markdown","content":"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 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. TRIBOU: Minnie Forbes owned the Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958. . Wells, 66, is a New York City resident. The most important sources are the Black weekly newspapers (Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, Baltimore Afro-American, Kansas City Call, etc.) So the problem of whether Roosevelt Jackson is a veteran of the Negro Leagues is really one of semantics. He stopped playing baseball when he was younger and became a Mason I believe. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. All 3,400 players from 1920 to 1948 will be elevated to MLB status. Silas Simmons played in the pre-Negro League era, and he passed away just a decade ago. I knew about it. There was Oscar Charleston who hit .400 multiple times. Born September 3, 1924 Bill Greason is the oldest player on this list. 1933 Homestead Grays, cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. Newt still makes Kansas City his home. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. "Many of the players are gone, but their . This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. It has been 47 years since anyone last saw this man. 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. That's about five times more in salary than Black players. During his long career, Frank played on 7 pennant-winners with the Kansas City Monarchs. Do you have a blog? Find out more. This process is automatic. Josh Gibson, Just having a few stories here and there was not remotely enough. 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. Born average. Or write about sports? 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 minor league circuit. A speedy switch-hitter, Newt writes that Martin Dihigo and Dave Brown were the two greatest pitchers he ever faced. Turkey Stearnes. Hardball historians, however, are out there keeping the Negro Leagues alive. I have always been drawn to blank spaces on maps, blank spaces in record books, Ashwill said. Major League Baseball has a day to honor the leagues set for next month. Major League Baseball was segregated from 1887 through 1946. In 2020, MLB recognized the Nego Leagues as major leagues. Contact SABR, https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/research-collection4_350x300.jpg, /wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.png. He cites being selected to manage the East All-Star team in 1939 as his biggest moment. America is about democracy and opportunity but it's also just as much about cash. This list comprises players who have appeared in Negro league baseball. So you won't let me play with you. Jimmie Crutchfield: A slender outfielder, Jimmie signed with the great Pittsburgh Crawfords when he was only 19 years old. TRIBOU: Jackie Robinson played briefly in the Negro Leagues. 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, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, Ashwill said. Holsey Lee: A great pitcher for over 20 years, Scrip Lee spent most of his long career in the Eastern Colored League. Copyright 2000-2022 Sports Reference LLC. Yet there was still a feeling that many more had been missed. 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. Register now to join us on March 10-12, 2023, in Phoenix, AZ. 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. At that meeting, they created 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. This Month in Sports ReferenceFind out when we add a feature or make a change. TRIBOU: Bob Kendrick heads the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum there. MINNIE. MINNIE FORBES: It was terrible for the players at that time. Black players earnedless because they were Jim Crow'd. 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