| Hub Miller | |
|---|---|
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| Pitcher | |
| Born:March 24, 1888 Bethpage, Tennessee | |
Batted: Unknown Threw: Unknown | |
| debut | |
| 1912, for the West Baden Sprudels | |
| Last appearance | |
| 1916, for the St. Louis Giants | |
| Teams | |
Pleas C. "Hub" Miller (born March 24,1888) was a Negro leagues pitcher for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League. He pitched for the West Baden Sprudels where papers called him "Spitball Miller" [1] and he pitched for the St. Louis Giants.
Oscar McKinley Charleston was an American center fielder and manager in Negro league baseball. In 1915,after serving three years in the U.S. Army,the Indianapolis,Indiana,native continued his baseball career as a professional with the Indianapolis ABCs;his career ended in 1954 as a player-manager for the Indianapolis Clowns. In addition to a forty-three-year career with more than a dozen teams,including the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords,Negro league baseball's leading teams in the 1930s,he played nine winter seasons in Cuba and in numerous exhibition games against white major leaguers. Charleston was known for his strengths as a hitter and center fielder. To this day,he holds the record for the second-highest batting average of all-time among major league players. He also has the fourth-highest career OPS. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
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