The Birmingham Black Barons were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 until 1960. They shared their home field of Rickwood Field in Birmingham,Alabama,with the white Birmingham Barons,usually drawing larger crowds and equal press.
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.
The Cuban House of David were a traveling Negro league baseball team that played from about 1927 to 1936 featuring players primarily from Cuba.
Elmer "Willie" Carter,also listed as William Carter,was a Negro league baseball player in the 1930s.
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.
William Robert Pope,nicknamed "Wee Willie",was an American Negro league pitcher for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays between 1946 and 1948.
Frederick Douglas Shepard was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1940s.
Joseph B. Spencer Jr. was an American Negro league second baseman in the 1940s.
Ernest C. Carter Jr.,nicknamed "Spoon",was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1930s and 1940s.
Leicester Moody was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1940s.
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"
Ruben Jones,also spelled "Reuben",was an American Negro league outfielder and manager.
Robert Poindexter,nicknamed "Roy",was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s.
Poindexter Williams,nicknamed "P.D.",was an American Negro league catcher and manager in the 1920s and 1930s.
Samuel Clarence Williams was an American Negro league pitcher between 1947 and 1952.
Alvin "Bubber" Gipson,Sr. was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s. A native of Shreveport,Louisiana,Gipson spent most of his career in Birmingham as a mainstay of the Black Barons' pitching staff.
James Wilson,nicknamed "Nip",was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1940s.
John G. Washington was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1930s and 1940s.
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