Andy Cooper

Andy Cooper
Andy Cooper
	Pitcher
	Born:April 24, 1898; Waco, Texas, U.S.
	Died: June 3, 1941 (aged 43); Waco, Texas, U.S.
	Batted: Right Threw: Left
Negro leagues debut
	1920, for the Detroit Stars
Last Negro leagues appearance
	1939, for the Kansas City Monarchs

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↑ On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball declared the Negro leagues, from the span of 1920–1948, to be a "Major League".^[1] Cooper's statistics reflect his time in the Negro leagues from 1920–1930 and 1937 until the end of his career.

References

↑ "MLB officially designates the Negro Leagues as 'Major League'". MLB.com. December 16, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
1 2 Cherry, Brice (July 14, 2013). "All-Time Super Centex Baseball Team a look back at area's hardball history". Waco Tribune-Herald . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
1 2 3 Windsor, Shawn (July 23, 2006). "The long journey to the Hall of Fame for Lefty Cooper began with newspaper box scores and a man from Ypsilanti". The Detroit Free Press .
1 2 Falkoff, Robert (February 21, 2006). "Southpaw piled up the victories". MLB.com . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ James, Bill (2010). The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. Simon & Schuster. p. 176. ISBN 978-1439106938.
1 2 Heaphy, Leslie, ed. (2007). Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues. McFarland. p. 236. ISBN 978-0786430758.
↑ Bak, Richard (1991). Cobb Would Have Caught it: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit. Wayne State University Press. p. 96. ISBN 0814323561 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
1 2 Lester, Larry (2001). Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953. University of Nebraska Press. p. 96. ISBN 0803280009.
↑ "Cooper, Andy". Baseball Hall of Fame . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ Lester, Larry; Miller, Sammy (2000). Black Baseball in Kansas City. Arcadia Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 073850842X.
1 2 The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats in Stories and Images, the Complete Roster of Inductees. Little, Brown and Company. 2014. p. 292. ISBN 978-0316213035 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
1 2 Goldstein, Richard (July 27, 2006). "Belated Recognition: The 17 Inductees". The New York Times . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ Vincent, Fay (2007). The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved. Simon & Schuster. p. 87. ISBN 978-0743273183 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ McNeil, William (2002). The California Winter League: America's First Integrated Professional Baseball League. McFarland. p. 266. ISBN 0786413018 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
1 2 Lanctot, Neil (1994). Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910-1932. Syracuse University Press. p. 155. ISBN 0815608659.
↑ Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri (2012). Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War . University of North Carolina Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0807882665 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ McNeil, William (2007). Black Baseball Out of Season: Pay for Play Outside of the Negro Leagues. McFarland. p. 108. ISBN 978-0786429011 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ Brown, Tim (February 28, 2006). "Another barrier broken: Woman to go into Hall". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ "S. Res. 386 Agreed to Senate (ATS)". United States Government Printing Office . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ Mitchell, Houston (January 24, 2014). "Greg Maddux, Tony La Russa will have no logo on Hall of Fame plaque". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on June 19, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ Cherry, Brice (5 June 2014). "Olympic champion Wariner heads Texas Sports Hall of Fame ballot". Waco Tribune-Herald . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

External links

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Andy Cooper at Find a Grave

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[2] On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball declared the Negro leagues, from the span of 1920–1948, to be a "Major League".^[1] Cooper's statistics reflect his time in the Negro leagues from 1920–1930 and 1937 until the end of his career.

[1] "MLB officially designates the Negro Leagues as 'Major League'". MLB.com. December 16, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2024.

[Cherry-3] 1 2 Cherry, Brice (July 14, 2013). "All-Time Super Centex Baseball Team a look back at area's hardball history". Waco Tribune-Herald . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Windsor-4] 1 2 3 Windsor, Shawn (July 23, 2006). "The long journey to the Hall of Fame for Lefty Cooper began with newspaper box scores and a man from Ypsilanti". The Detroit Free Press .

[Falkoff-5] 1 2 Falkoff, Robert (February 21, 2006). "Southpaw piled up the victories". MLB.com . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[James-6] James, Bill (2010). The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. Simon & Schuster. p. 176. ISBN 978-1439106938.

[Satchel-7] 1 2 Heaphy, Leslie, ed. (2007). Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues. McFarland. p. 236. ISBN 978-0786430758.

[Bak-8] Bak, Richard (1991). Cobb Would Have Caught it: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit. Wayne State University Press. p. 96. ISBN 0814323561 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Lester-9] 1 2 Lester, Larry (2001). Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953. University of Nebraska Press. p. 96. ISBN 0803280009.

[HOF-10] "Cooper, Andy". Baseball Hall of Fame . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[KC-11] Lester, Larry; Miller, Sammy (2000). Black Baseball in Kansas City. Arcadia Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 073850842X.

[Hall-12] 1 2 The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats in Stories and Images, the Complete Roster of Inductees. Little, Brown and Company. 2014. p. 292. ISBN 978-0316213035 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Belated-13] 1 2 Goldstein, Richard (July 27, 2006). "Belated Recognition: The 17 Inductees". The New York Times . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Vincent-14] Vincent, Fay (2007). The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved. Simon & Schuster. p. 87. ISBN 978-0743273183 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[McNeil-15] McNeil, William (2002). The California Winter League: America's First Integrated Professional Baseball League. McFarland. p. 266. ISBN 0786413018 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Lanctot-16] 1 2 Lanctot, Neil (1994). Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910-1932. Syracuse University Press. p. 155. ISBN 0815608659.

[Transpacific-17] Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri (2012). Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War . University of North Carolina Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0807882665 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Pay-18] McNeil, William (2007). Black Baseball Out of Season: Pay for Play Outside of the Negro Leagues. McFarland. p. 108. ISBN 978-0786429011 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Barrier-19] Brown, Tim (February 28, 2006). "Another barrier broken: Woman to go into Hall". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[GPO-20] "S. Res. 386 Agreed to Senate (ATS)". United States Government Printing Office . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[Mitchell-21] Mitchell, Houston (January 24, 2014). "Greg Maddux, Tony La Russa will have no logo on Hall of Fame plaque". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on June 19, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[TSHOF-22] Cherry, Brice (5 June 2014). "Olympic champion Wariner heads Texas Sports Hall of Fame ballot". Waco Tribune-Herald . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

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v t e Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2006
BBWAA Vote	Bruce Sutter (76.9%)
Veterans Committee	none
Committee on African-American Baseball	Ray Brown Willard Brown Andy Cooper Frank Grant Pete Hill Biz Mackey Effa Manley José Méndez Alex Pompez Cumberland Posey Louis Santop Mule Suttles Ben Taylor Cristóbal Torriente Sol White J. L. Wilkinson Jud Wilson
J. G. Taylor Spink Award	Tracy Ringolsby
Ford C. Frick Award	Gene Elston

v t e Members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Pitchers	Alexander Bender Blyleven M. Brown R. Brown Bunning Carlton Chesbro Clarkson Cooper Coveleski Day Dean Dihigo Drysdale Eckersley Faber Feller Fingers Ford B. Foster Galvin B. Gibson Glavine Gomez Gossage Grimes Grove Haines Halladay Hoffman Hoyt Hubbell Hunter Jenkins R. Johnson W. Johnson Joss Kaat Keefe Koufax Lemon Lyons Maddux Marichal Marquard P. Martínez Mathewson McGinnity Méndez Morris Mussina Newhouser Nichols Niekro Paige Palmer Pennock Perry Plank Radbourn Rivera Rixey Roberts Rogan Ruffing Rusie Ryan Sabathia Seaver H. Smith L. Smith Smoltz Spahn Sutter Sutton Vance Waddell B. Wagner Walsh Welch Wilhelm J. Williams Willis Wynn Young
Catchers	Bench Berra Bresnahan Campanella Carter Cochrane Dickey Ewing Ferrell Fisk J. Gibson Hartnett Lombardi Mackey Mauer Piazza Rodríguez Santop Schalk T. Simmons
First basemen	Allen Anson Bagwell Beckley Bottomley Brouthers Cepeda Chance Connor Foxx Gehrig Greenberg Helton Hodges G. Kelly Killebrew Leonard McCovey McGriff Mize Murray Pérez Sisler Suttles Taylor Terry Thomas Thome
Second basemen	Alomar Biggio Carew E. Collins Doerr Evers Fox Frisch Gehringer Gordon Herman Hornsby Lajoie Lazzeri Mazeroski McPhee Morgan J. Robinson Sandberg Schoendienst
Third basemen	Baker Beltré Boggs Brett J. Collins Dandridge J. Johnson Jones Kell Lindstrom Mathews Molitor B. Robinson Rolen Santo Schmidt Traynor D. White J. Wilson
Shortstops	Aparicio Appling Bancroft Banks Boudreau Cronin Davis T. Jackson Jennings Jeter Larkin Lloyd Maranville Reese Ripken Jr. Rizzuto Sewell O. Smith Tinker Trammell Vaughan H. Wagner Wallace Ward Wells Yount
Left fielders	Brock Burkett Clarke Delahanty Goslin Hafey Henderson Irvin Kelley Kiner Manush Medwick Miñoso Musial O'Rourke Raines J. Rice A. Simmons Stargell Wheat B. Williams T. Williams Yastrzemski
Center fielders	Ashburn Averill Bell W. Brown Carey Charleston Cobb Combs DiMaggio Doby Duffy Griffey Jr. Hamilton Hill Mantle Mays Puckett Roush Snider Speaker Stearnes Torriente L. Waner H. Wilson
Right fielders	Aaron Clemente Crawford Cuyler Dawson Flick Guerrero Gwynn Heilmann Hooper R. Jackson Kaline Keeler K. Kelly Klein T. McCarthy Oliva Ott Parker S. Rice F. Robinson Ruth Slaughter Suzuki Thompson Walker P. Waner Winfield Youngs
Designated hitters	Baines E. Martínez Ortiz
Managers	Alston Anderson Cox Durocher R. Foster Hanlon Harris Herzog Huggins La Russa Lasorda Leyland López Mack J. McCarthy McGraw McKechnie W. Robinson Selee Southworth Stengel Torre Weaver D. Williams
Executives and pioneers	Barrow Bulkeley Cartwright Chadwick Chandler Comiskey Cummings Dreyfuss Fowler Frick Giles Gillick Grant Griffith Harridge Hulbert B. Johnson Kuhn Landis La. MacPhail Le. MacPhail Manley Miller O'Malley O'Neil Pompez Posey Rickey Ruppert Schuerholz Selig Spalding Veeck Weiss S. White Wilkinson G. Wright H. Wright Yawkey
Umpires	Barlick Chylak Conlan Connolly Evans Harvey Hubbard Klem McGowan O'Day
Italics denote members who have been elected, but not yet inducted.

v t e Detroit Stars/Wolves/Clowns
Teams	Detroit Stars (1919–1931) Detroit Wolves (1932) Detroit Stars (1933) Detroit Stars (1937) Detroit Stars (1954–1957) Detroit Clowns (1958) Detroit Stars (1959) Detroit–New Orleans Stars (1960–1961)
Venues	Mack Park Hamtramck Stadium
Hall of Fame inductees	Cool Papa Bell Ray Brown Oscar Charleston Andy Cooper Pete Hill José Méndez Turkey Stearnes Mule Suttles Willie Wells Smokey Joe Williams
Seasons	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1937

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States

Andy Cooper

Pitcher
Born:(1898-04-24)April 24, 1898 Waco, Texas, U.S.
Died: June 3, 1941(1941-06-03) (aged 43) Waco, Texas, U.S.
Batted: Right Threw: Left
Negro leagues debut
1920, for the Detroit Stars
Last Negro leagues appearance
1939, for the Kansas City Monarchs