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Ernest Larry Brown (September 16, 1901 – April 7, 1972) was a baseball player in the Negro leagues. He would play catcher and played from 1921 to 1947. External links
List of Negro league baseball players (A–D) List of Negro league baseball players (E–L) ... Larry Brown: 1919: 1938: Catcher / Manager: Birmingham Black Barons, ...
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.
The players below are some of the most notable of those who played Negro league baseball, beginning with the codification of baseball's color line barring African American players (about 1892), past the re-integration in 1946 of the sport, up until the Negro leagues finally expired about 1962.
Major League Baseball will also honor the Negro Leagues years with a tribute game set for June 20 at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama — the oldest professional baseball ballpark in the U.S ...
Larry Brown (catcher) (1901–1972), American baseball player in the Negro leagues; Larry Brown (infielder) (1940–2024), American Major League Baseball infielder; Larry Brown (basketball) (born 1940), American basketball coach and former player; Larry Brown (ice hockey) (born 1947), Canadian former ice hockey player
The integration of Negro Leagues statistics into Major League Baseball — which has resulted in new leaders atop several categories — happened decades later and was determined by a committee.
Major League Baseball announced plans to blend Negro Leagues statistics into its record book, and no player’s proverbial on-paper resume will benefit more than Gibson, who now owns a handful of ...