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Charles Dougherty (baseball)
Charles "Pat" Dougherty (October 26, 1879 – July 12, 1939) was a Negro leagues pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ... for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League. Sportswriter and fellow player Jimmy Smith put Dougherty on his 1909 "All American Team." Dougherty died at the age of 59 in Chicago, Illinois. He is buried at Lincoln Cemetery at Blue Island, Illinois. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Dougherty, Charles Leland Giants players Chicago American Giants players 1879 births 1939 deaths 20th-century African-American people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is assigned the number 1. The pitcher is often considered the most important player on the defensive side of the game, and as such is situated at the right end of the defensive spectrum. There are many different types of pitchers, such as the starting pitcher, relief pitcher, middle reliever, lefty specialist, setup man, and the closer. Traditionally, the pitcher also bats. Starting in 1973 with the American League(and later the National League) and spreading to further leagues throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the hitting duties of the pitcher have generally been given over to the position of designated hitter, a cause of some controversy. The Japanese Central Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negro National League (1920-1931)
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Negro National League can refer to either one or both of the two leagues of Negro league baseball in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century: * Negro National League (1920–1931) * Negro National League (1933–1948) The second Negro National League was one of the several Negro leagues that were established during the period in the United States when organized baseball was segregated. The league was founded in 1933 by businessman Gus Greenlee of Pittsburgh. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. * March 3 – United States Geological Survey is founded. * March 11 – Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago American Giants Players
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Leland Giants Players
Leland may refer to: Places United States * Leland, Illinois, a village * Leland, Iowa, a city * Leland, Michigan, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Leland, Mississippi, a city * Leland, North Carolina, a town * Leland, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Leland, Utah, an unincorporated community * Leland, Washington, an unincorporated community * Leland, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Leland Township, Michigan * Leland River, Michigan * Leland Pond, New York Elsewhere * Leland, Norway, a village * Mount Leland, Victoria Land, Antarctica People Given name * Leland Austin (born 1986), American rapper under the stage name Yung L.A. * Leland Bardwell (1922–2016), Irish poet, novelist and playwright * Leland Chapman (born 1976), American bounty hunter on the reality television series ''Dog the Bounty Hunter'' * Leland Christensen (1959–2022), American politician * Leland D. Melvin (born 1964), American engineer and retired astronaut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Island, Illinois
Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, located approximately south of Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood. The population was 22,558 at the 2020 United States Census. Blue Island was established in the 1830s as a way station for settlers traveling on the Vincennes Trace, and the settlement prospered because it was conveniently situated a day's journey outside of Chicago. The late-nineteenth-century historian and publisher Alfred T. Andreas made the following observation regarding the appearance of the young community in ''History of Cook County Illinois'' (1884), "The location of Blue Island Village is a beautiful one. Nowhere about Chicago is there to be found a more pleasant and desirable resident locality." Since its founding, the city has been an important commercial center in the south Cook County region, although its position in that respect has been eclipsed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Cemetery (Blue Island)
Lincoln Cemetery is a historically African American cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois, United States. The cemetery is about with over 16,000 internments. History Founded in 1911 by local Black business leaders, the cemetery is next to the Oak Hill Cemetery. The cemetery is noteworthy for the number of famous African-American Chicagoans buried there, among them several notable blues and jazz musicians, as well as notables in literature, sports, and history. Notable graves * Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), newspaper publisher * Albert Ammons (1907–1949), jazz/boogie-woogie pianist * Gene Ammons (1925–1974), jazz tenor saxophonist (son of Albert Ammons) * Lillian Hardin Armstrong (1898–1971), jazz singer/pianist/second wife of Louis Armstrong (Garden of Peace Mausoleum) * Charles Avery (1892–1974), blues and boogie-woogie pianist * Big Bill Broonzy (1893–1958), blues musician * Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), poet, first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Smith (Negro Leagues)
James H. Smith (February 1874 – December 24, 1960) was an Infielder in the Negro leagues. Smith played for the Chicago Columbia Giants at the age of 28, eventually moving on to the Cuban X-Giants in 1904. He played there for two seasons, then moved on to the Leland Giants for a few seasons. He then appears to have wrapped up his professional baseball career with the St. Paul Colored Gophers in 1909. Smith also wrote for the newspapers about many fellow players in 1910, not only giving opinions about their playing, and giving first and last names, but also helping to piece together where many of the players were coming and going during the season of 1910. By 1910, Smith had joined the 8th Regiment of the Illinois National Guard and was stationed at Peoria, Illinois. During his military career, Smith organized and Captained a team in the Ninth United States Cavalry and the Forty-Eighth United States Volunteers. He played in the Philippines, Cuba, Japan, the United States and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is assigned the number 1. The pitcher is often considered the most important player on the defensive side of the game, and as such is situated at the right end of the defensive spectrum. There are many different types of pitchers, such as the starting pitcher, relief pitcher, middle reliever, lefty specialist, setup man, and the closer. Traditionally, the pitcher also bats. Starting in 1973 with the American League(and later the National League) and spreading to further leagues throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the hitting duties of the pitcher have generally been given over to the position of designated hitter, a cause of some controversy. The Japanese Central Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Shade, Kentucky
Summer Shade is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Metcalfe County, Kentucky, United States. Originally the area was known as Sartain Precinct and later as Glover's Creek; W.M. Riggs, the postmaster, changed the name to Summer Shade in 1872. The rural-dominated area is home to the Kingsford Charcoal factory. State highway 90, connecting Glasgow to the Dale Hollow Lake area, runs through Summer Shade. There was one school in Summer Shade that is formerly known as Summer Shade Elementary School. It went from grades K-6. Now students go to Metcalfe County Elementary. One of the foremost doctors in south-central Kentucky and the state during the twentieth century was Dr. C.C. Howard, who was born in Summer Shade. He worked to establish tuberculosis hospitals throughout Kentucky and to improve medical care in the rural areas of the state. Demographics Notable people * Charles "Pat" Dougherty (1879-1939) Baseball pitcher in the pre-Negro leagues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negro League Baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin 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". In the late 19th century, the baseball color line developed in professional baseball, excluding African Americans from league play. In 1885, the Cuban Giants formed the first black professional baseball team. The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance. After several decades of mostly independent play by a variety of teams, in 1920 the first Negro National League was formed and ultimately seven major leagues existed at various times over the next thirty years. After integration, the quality of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Fé
Club Fé were a Cuban baseball team in the Cuban League based in Havana. They played in 1882, 1885, from 1887-1890, and again from 1901 to 1914. Fé first played during the 1882 season, which was canceled after four games and all game results where voided, though Fé had had a 1-4 record. The club finished in second place in the spring of 1885 behind Habana (baseball club), Habana with a 3-3 record, and ended the winter of 1885 in third place behind Habana and Almendares (baseball), Almendares. Fé won the 1888 championship with a 12-3 record. Managed by Antonio Utera, Francisco Hernandez (baseball), Francisco Hernandez won 10 games and José María Teuma batted .350 and won two games. Alberto Azoy managed the team from 1905 to 1910, during which the won the league championship in 1905. They would win again in 1912 under manager Tinti Molina. Notable players *Rube Foster *Pete Hill *Antonio María García *Eusebio González *Mike González (catcher), Mike González *Charlie Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
