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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.
Ernest Judson Wilson (February 28, 1894 – June 24, 1963), nicknamed "Boojum", was an American third baseman, first baseman, and manager in Negro league baseball.He played for the Baltimore Black Sox, the Homestead Grays, and the Philadelphia Stars between 1922 and 1945.
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 ...
Johnson is regarded as one of the greatest third basemen of the Negro leagues. In 1975, he was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame after being nominated by the Negro Leagues Committee. From 1921 to 1929, Johnson was a member of the Hilldale Daisies ball club and became an on-the-field leader respected for his professional disposition.
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans.The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed "Negro Major Leagues".
Third baseman: Birmingham Black Barons, Monroe Monarchs [511] Lunie Danage: 1920: 1920: Second baseman: St. Louis Giants [512] 'Ray Dandridge'‡ 1933: 1949: Third baseman: Detroit Stars, Nashville Elite Giants, Newark Dodgers, Newark Eagles, Mexican League, New York Cubans [513] Richard Dandridge: 1919: 1919: Shortstop: Lincoln Giants [514 ...
Third baseman: Newark Eagles [135] Henry Spearman: 1935: 1945: Third baseman: New York Cubans, Newark Eagles, Homestead Grays, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Philadelphia Stars, New York Black Yankees, Washington Black Senators, Baltimore Elite Giants, Birmingham Black Barons [136] John Spearman: 1945: 1945: Third baseman: New York Black Yankees [137 ...
List of Negro league baseball players (E–L) List of Negro league baseball players (M–R) ... Third baseman: Bacharach Giants, Hilldale Club, Homestead Grays, ...