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Oscar McKinley Charleston was an American center fielder and manager in Negro league baseball. Over his 43-year baseball career,Charleston played or managed with more than a dozen teams,including the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords,Negro league baseball's leading teams in the 1930s. He also played nine winter seasons in Cuba and in numerous exhibition games against white major leaguers. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
John Henry Lloyd,nicknamed "Pop" and "El Cuchara",was an American baseball shortstop and manager in the Negro leagues. During his 27-year career,he played for many teams and had a .343 batting average. Lloyd is considered to be the greatest shortstop in Negro league history,and he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977.
James Allen "Candy Jim" Taylor was an American third baseman and manager in Negro league baseball. In a career that spanned forty years,he played as an infielder in the early years of the 20th century for over a dozen black baseball teams;by the mid-1920s,he would play less regularly,with his final game came at 58. In 1920,the same year of the start of the golden era of Negro league baseball,he would take on the responsibilities of manager,where he would manage 1,967 games for twelve teams. Described as one of the great strategists of his era,Taylor is the all-time winningest manager in the Negro league era,having 955 wins along with two Negro World Series titles and one additional pennant in 27 seasons as manager. He has the most seasons managed by an African American manager along with having the seventh most for a manager in the history of baseball.
Benjamin Harrison Taylor was an American first baseman and manager in baseball's Negro leagues. Taylor played for the Birmingham Giants,Chicago American Giants,Indianapolis ABC's,St. Louis Giants,Bacharach Giants,Washington Potomacs,Harrisburg Giants,and Baltimore Black Sox. His playing career lasted from 1908 to 1929. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
John Preston "Pete" Hill was an American outfielder and manager in baseball's Negro leagues from 1899 to 1925. He played for the Philadelphia Giants,Leland Giants,Chicago American Giants,Detroit Stars,Milwaukee Bears,and Baltimore Black Sox. Hill starred for teams owned by Negro league executive Rube Foster for much of his playing career.
Charles Isham Taylor was an American second baseman,manager and executive in Negro league baseball. Born in Anderson,South Carolina,he was the oldest among four sons of a Methodist minister—including Candy Jim,Ben and Johnny—who made a remarkable impact on black baseball.
William Miller "Big Bill" Gatewood was an American Negro league baseball pitcher and manager for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League,and in its first few seasons. He pitched for the Leland Giants,Chicago Giants,St. Paul Colored Gophers,Chicago American Giants,New York Lincoln Giants,Cuban X-Giants,Philadelphia Giants,Brooklyn Royal Giants,St. Louis Giants,Indianapolis ABCs,Detroit Stars,St. Louis Stars,Toledo Tigers,Milwaukee Bears,Memphis Red Sox,Atlantic City Bacharach Giants,and Birmingham Black Barons.
John W. Patterson was an American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues. He played for major teams from 1893 to 1907.
Frank Wickware,nicknamed "Rawhide" and "The Red Ant",was a baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues from 1909 to 1925.
George "Chappie" Johnson Jr. was an American baseball catcher and field manager in the Negro leagues. He played for many successful teams from 1895 to 1920 and he crossed racial boundaries as a teacher and coach.
Louis "Dicta" Johnson was an American spitball pitcher in Negro league baseball and during the pre-Negro league years. He played from 1908 until 1923,mostly for the Indianapolis ABCs and the Chicago American Giants.
William "Dizzy" Dismukes was an American pitcher and manager in Negro league baseball and during the pre-Negro league years. He was born in Birmingham,Alabama,where his father Isaac Lee Dismukes was a deacon in a Baptist church,and his mother Sallie taught Sunday School. He knew from the time he was a youth that baseball was his first love,and he dropped out of school to follow his dream of becoming a baseball player.
The West Baden Sprudels were an early Negro league baseball team that played as an independent club owned by the Burnett-Pollard-Rogers Baseball Club Company,where Edward Rogers was the Chief Officer.
Pelayo Chacón Cortina was a Cuban professional baseball shortstop and manager in the Cuban League and Negro leagues. He spent most of his American playing career with the Cuban Stars (East),which he also managed from 1923 to 1927.
Charles H. "Rucker" Blackwell was an American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues. He played from 1915 to 1929 with several teams,playing mostly with the and St. Louis Giants/Stars.
Harry Edward"Green River" Buckner,also nicknamed "Buck" and "Goat Head",was an American Negro league pitcher and outfielder in the between 1896 and 1918.
Otto "Mirror" Briggs was an American baseball outfielder,manager and team owner in the Negro leagues.
Russell Harold Powell was a Negro leagues catcher. He played mostly for the Indianapolis ABCs.
The Tennessee Rats was a small club of black baseball players formed in Holden,Missouri running from approximately 1910 to 1926.
James H. Smith was an American infielder in the Negro leagues.
