Harry Leon "Suitcase" Simpson was an American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians,Kansas City Athletics,New York Yankees,Chicago White Sox,and Pittsburgh Pirates in his eight-year career. He played in the World Series with the New York Yankees in 1957,which they lost.
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.
Ramón "El Profesor" Bragaña Palacios was a Cuban baseball pitcher and outfielder in the Negro leagues and the Mexican League.
The Memphis Red Sox were an American Negro league baseball team that was active from 1920 to 1959. Originally named the Barber College Baseball Club,the team was initially owned and operated by Arthur P. Martin,a local Memphis barber. In the late 1920s the Martin brothers,all three Memphis doctors and businessmen,purchased the Red Sox. J. B. Martin,W. S. Martin,and B. B. Martin,would retain control of the club till its dissolution in 1959. The Red Sox played as members,at various times,of the Negro Southern League,Negro National League,and Negro American League. The team was never a titan of the Negro leagues like wealthier teams in northern cities of the United States,but sound management lead to a continuous thirty-nine years of operation,a span that was exceeded by very few other teams. Following integration the team had five players that would eventually make the rosters of Major League Baseball teams and two players that were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Domingo Julio Rojo Sr. was a Cuban professional baseball catcher who played in the American Negro leagues from the 1910s to the 1930s.
Ernest C. Carter Jr.,nicknamed "Spoon",was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1930s and 1940s.
Thadist B. Christopher was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1930s and 1940s.
William Hipple Galloway,nicknamed "Hippo",was an American-Canadian professional baseball player. Born in Buffalo,New York,Galloway grew up in Dunnville,Ontario,and is considered "the first black Canadian to play organized baseball."
Robert Alfred Clarke,nicknamed "Eggie",was an American Negro league catcher and manager from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Elias Brown,born "Elias Bryant",and nicknamed "Country" or "Circus Country",was an American Negro league outfielder between 1918 and 1933.
Percy Miller,nicknamed "Dimps",was an American Negro league pitcher and manager in the 1920s and 1930s.
Robert McClure,nicknamed "Big Boy",was an American Negro league pitcher between 1920 and 1930.
Robert Judson Evans was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1930s and 1940s.
Clifford Carter was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s and 1930s.
José"Cheo" Ramos was a professional baseball outfielder who played in the Negro leagues and the Cuban League in the 1910s and 1920s.
Mike Brown was a professional baseball outfielder who played in the Negro leagues in the 1900s and 1910s.
Clarence "Preacher" Davis was a professional baseball third baseman who played in the Negro leagues in the 1920s.
Frank Miller was an American Negro league infielder in the 1880s and 1890s.
