Willie James Wells,nicknamed "the Devil",was an American baseball player. He was a shortstop who played from 1924 to 1948 for various teams in the Negro leagues and in Latin America.
The Cincinnati Tigers were a professional Negro league baseball team that was based in Cincinnati,Ohio.
The Dayton Marcos were a Negro league baseball team based from Dayton,Ohio that played during the early twentieth century.
James Edgar Claxton was a Canadian-American baseball pitcher,and the first black man to play organized white baseball in the twentieth century.
The Pittsburgh Keystones was the name of two historic professional Negro league baseball teams that operated in 1887 and again in 1921 and 1922. The first team was a member of the first black baseball league in 1887,the League of Colored Baseball Clubs. The league only lasted a week,which resulted in a 3-4 record for the Keystones,and included Weldy Walker,the second African-American to play in the major leagues and future hall of famer,Sol White.
The Cuban Stars (East) were a team of professional baseball players from Cuba and other Latin American countries who competed in the Negro leagues in the eastern United States from 1916 to 1933. They generally were a traveling team that played only road games.
Pollock's Cuban Stars were a traveling Negro league baseball team that played from about 1927 to 1936 featuring players primarily from Cuba.
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 led 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.
The 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes baseball team competed in Negro American League (NAL) during the 1945 baseball season. The team compiled a 52–20–2 (.716) record.
William Benjamin Felder was an American Negro league shortstop who played for the 1946 Negro World Series champion Newark Eagles.
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."
Johnny Holmes was an American baseball left fielder in the Negro leagues. He played with the Newark Eagles in 1942.
James Wilson,nicknamed "Nip",was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1940s.
