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Elander Victor Harris was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager in the Negro leagues. Listed at 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), 168 lb., Harris batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
David Pope was an American Negro league and Major League Baseball outfielder who played one inning for the Homestead Grays and for four seasons in MLB for the Cleveland Indians in 1952, and from 1954 to 1955. He then played for the Baltimore Orioles after being traded from 1955 to 1956, then was traded back to Cleveland for the remainder of the 1956 season. He left MLB behind on September 30, 1956.
The West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) was one of the several Negro baseball leagues created during the time organized baseball was segregated. The WCNBA was organized as a minor league in 1946 by Abe Saperstein and Jesse Owens as a means to provide the west coast with a platform for African-American players. The league lasted about three months.
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William Henry Hubert, nicknamed "Bubber", was an American Negro league pitcher between 1939 and 1946.
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John G. Washington was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Cleveland Clippers were a Negro league baseball team in the minor United States League, based in Cleveland, Ohio in 1946. Composed mostly of former players on from the Great Lakes Naval Varsity team and local sandlot stars, the Clippers are credited with a 2–16 record in 18 league games. By July, the Clippers had folded and the remnants of the organization merged with the Brooklyn Brown Dodgers.
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- ↑ "Negro Major League (1942)" (PDF). www.cnlbr.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Teams Ready for Double Bill on Island Diamond". The Evening News. Harrisburg, PA. May 5, 1945 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "United States League (1945-1946)" (PDF). www.cnlbr.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
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