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  2. List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major ...

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    By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro leagues themselves had become a minor league circuit. Below is a list of 52 players who played for major Negro league teams up to 1950 and eventually saw playing time for a Major League team.

  3. Hank Thompson (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Curtis Thompson (December 8, 1925 – September 30, 1969) was an American player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played primarily as a third baseman. A left-handed batter, he played with the Dallas Green Monarchs (1941), Kansas City Monarchs (1943, 1946–47, 1948), St. Louis Browns (1947) and New York Giants (1949–56).

  4. John Britton (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    John Britton (April 21, 1919 – December 2, 1990) was an American baseball third baseman in the Negro leagues and in the Japanese Pacific League.He played professionally from 1940 to 1953, playing with the St. Louis–New Orleans Stars, Chicago American Giants, Cincinnati/Indianapolis Clowns, Birmingham Black Barons, and Hankyu Braves.

  5. Judy Johnson - Wikipedia

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    William Julius "Judy" Johnson (October 26, 1899 – June 15, 1989) was an American professional third baseman and manager whose career in Negro league baseball spanned 17 seasons, from 1921 to 1937. Slight of build, Johnson never developed as a power threat but achieved his greatest success as a contact hitter and an intuitive defenseman.

  6. Ray Dandridge - Wikipedia

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    Raymond Emmitt Dandridge (August 31, 1913 – February 12, 1994), nicknamed "Hooks" and "Squat", was an American third baseman in baseball's Negro leagues. Dandridge excelled as a third baseman and he hit for a high batting average. By the time that Major League Baseball was racially integrated, Dandridge was considered too old to play. He ...

  7. List of Negro league baseball players (M–R) - Wikipedia

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    Third baseman: Birmingham Black Barons [128] John Mickey: 1897: 1907: Outfielder: Cuban Giants, Philadelphia Giants [129] Daniel Miguel: 1899: 1899: Second baseman: All Cubans [130] Jimmy Miles: 1934: 1935: Outfielder: Philadelphia Stars, Chicago American Giants [131] John Miles: 1946: 1949: Third baseman: Chicago American Giants [132] Willie ...

  8. Candy Jim Taylor - Wikipedia

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    James Allen "Candy Jim" Taylor (February 1, 1884 – April 3, 1948) 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 (doing so as a pinch hitter), with his final game came at 58.

  9. Jim Gilliam - Wikipedia

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    James William "Junior" Gilliam (October 17, 1928 – October 8, 1978) was an American second baseman, third baseman, and coach in Negro league and Major League Baseball who spent his entire major league career with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers.