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 posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City,Missouri,and owned by J. L. Wilkinson,they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. Wilkinson was the first white owner at the time of the establishment of the team. In 1930,the Monarchs became the first professional baseball team to use a portable lighting system which was transported from game to game in trucks to play games at night,five years before any Major League Baseball team did. The Monarchs won ten league championships before integration,and triumphed in the first Negro World Series in 1924. The Monarchs had only one season in which they did not have a winning record and produced more major league players than any other Negro league franchise. It was disbanded in 1965.
The Dayton Marcos were a Negro league baseball team based from Dayton,Ohio that played during the early twentieth century.
Miguel Ángel González Cordero was a Cuban catcher,coach and interim manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the first half of the 20th century. Along with Adolfo Luque,González was one of the first Cubans or Latin Americans to have a long career in the American major leagues.
Joséde la Caridad Méndez Báez was a Cuban professional baseball right-handed pitcher,shortstop,third baseman and manager in the Negro leagues. Born in Cárdenas,Matanzas,he died at age 43 in Havana. Known in Cuba as El Diamante Negro,he became a legend in his homeland. He was one of the first group of players elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2006.
Juan Esteban Vargas Marcano,better known as Tetelo Vargas,and nicknamed "El Gamo Dominicano" or "the Dominican Deer",was a Dominican professional baseball outfielder,shortstop and first baseman in the Negro leagues.
King Solomon "Sol" White was an American professional baseball infielder,manager and executive,and one of the pioneers of the Negro leagues. An active sportswriter for many years,he wrote the first definitive history of black baseball in 1907. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
James Edward Pendleton was an American professional baseball player,an outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1953 and 1962. He played for the Milwaukee Braves,Pittsburgh Pirates,Cincinnati Reds and Houston Colt .45s. Before appearing in MLB,he was a Negro league player. He was a right-handed batter and thrower,measured 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).
JoséRodríguez,nicknamed "Joseíto" or "El Hombre Goma" in Spanish and "Joe" in English,was a Cuban infielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1916 to 1918 and in the Cuban League from 1914 to 1939. In the majors,he played for the New York Giants and was primarily a second baseman,while in the Cuban League and the U.S. minor leagues he mostly played first base. A defensive specialist,according to Roberto González Echevarría,Rodríguez "was considered the best defensive first baseman in Cuba" of his time. He was also a long-time manager in the Cuban League and managed for one season in the minors. He was inducted into the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951.
Felix Evans Jr.,nicknamed "Chin",was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. Known for his curveball,Evans played from 1934 to 1949 with several teams,most prominently for the Memphis Red Sox.
The Long Branch Cubans were a professional baseball team that played from 1913 to 1916. It was the first U.S. minor league baseball team composed almost entirely of Cubans. Several players,including Dolf Luque and Mike González,went on to play in the major leagues. The Cubans played in Long Branch,New Jersey from 1913 to 1915,except for the first half of the 1914 season,when they played in Newark,New Jersey. In 1916,they started the season playing in Jersey City,New Jersey as the "Jersey City Cubans." Later that summer,they moved their home games to Poughkeepsie,New York,where they were usually referred to as the "Long Branch Cubans." In late July 1916 they briefly moved to Harlem and finally to Madison,New Jersey in August.
James Eugene Wilkes,nicknamed "Seabiscuit",was a professional baseball outfielder. He played in Negro league baseball for the Newark Eagles from 1945 to 1948. He was a member of the 1946 Negro World Series championship team,and was an All-Star in 1948.
Pollock's Cuban Stars were a traveling Negro league baseball team that played from about 1927 to 1936 featuring players primarily from Cuba.
Edric León Kellman was a Panamanian professional baseball third baseman,second baseman,catcher and manager. Listed at 5' 11",160 lb.,Kellman batted and threw right handed. He was born in Gatún,Panama Canal Zone.
Jesse Horace Williams,nicknamed "Bill",was an American Negro league shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs and Indianapolis Clowns between 1939 and 1950.
Winfield Scott Welch,nicknamed "Gus" and "Moe",was an American Negro league outfielder and manager. Welch spent most of his playing career with minor Negro teams. He is best known as a successful manager,lauded by some as "the Connie Mack of Negro baseball"
JoséLuis SuséCuesta,known as "JoséColás",is a Cuban former professional baseball center fielder,shortstop and third baseman who played in the Negro Leagues in the 1940s.
John Henry Williams,nicknamed "Nature Boy",was an American Negro league pitcher who played in the 1940s.
Raúl Navarro was a Cuban professional baseball left fielder,shortstop and catcher in the Negro leagues in 1945 and in the Mexican League in 1944 and from 1946–1953.
