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Seattle Steelheads
The Seattle Steelheads were a Negro league baseball team from Seattle, Washington. Owned by Abe Saperstein, they were also known as the Harlem Globetrotters and Cincinnati Crescents, though occasionally the teams split and played each other. Founding Abe Saperstein founded the Harlem Globetrotters baseball team in 1944 to complement his world-famous basketball team of the same name. Also owned by Saperstein, the Cincinnati Crescents were an All-Star barnstorming baseball team that played in the mid-1940s. The team was managed by Winfield Welch, and featured players such as Bill Blair, Sherwood Brewer, Luke Easter, Alvin Gipson, Bill Jefferson, Leaman Johnson, and Johnny Markham. The Globetrotters and Crescents combined operations and were charter members of the West Coast Negro Baseball League, changing their name to the Seattle Steelheads. The Steelheads played in the West Coast Negro Baseball League and played their first game on June 1, 1946, against the San Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball *World Series: St. Louis Cardinals over St. Louis Browns (4–2), in the "Streetcar Series" *All-Star Game, July 11 at Forbes Field: National League, 7–1 Other champions *Amateur World Series: Venezuela * Negro League World Series: Homestead Grays over Birmingham Black Barons (4–1) * Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: West, 7–4 *All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Milwaukee Chicks over Kenosha Comets Awards and honors *Baseball Hall of Fame **Kenesaw Mountain Landis *Most Valuable Player **Hal Newhouser (AL) – pitcher, Detroit Tigers ** Marty Marion (NL) – shortstop, St. Louis Cardinals *The Sporting News Player of the Year Award ** Marty Marion (NL) – St. Louis Cardinals *The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award **Bobby Doerr (AL) – Second base, Boston Red Sox ** Marty Marion (NL) – Shortstop, St. Louis Cardinals *The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award **Hal Newhouser (AL) – Detroit Tigers **Bill Voisel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaman Johnson
Leamon Walter Johnson (August 5, 1916 – death date unknown) was an American baseball shortstop in the Negro leagues. He played from 1941 to 1950 with the Newark Eagles, New York Black Yankees, Birmingham Black Barons, St. Louis Stars, Harlem Globetrotters, Memphis Red Sox, Los Angeles White Sox The Los Angeles White Sox were a Negro league baseball team in the West Coast Negro Baseball League, based in Los Angeles, California, in 1946. References Negro league baseball teams White Sox The Chicago White Sox are an American profe ..., Detroit Senators and Cincinnati Crescents.Pantagraph staff (June 23, 1948)"Cincinnati Club Meets Stars Friday Night" ''The Bloomington Pantagraph''. p. 13. Retrieved June 16, 2021. __TOC__ References External links anSeamheads {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Leamon Newark Eagles players New York Black Yankees players Memphis Red Sox players Birmingham Black Barons players Los Angeles White Sox players Cincinnati Crescents players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham ( ) is the most populous city in, and county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies south of the U.S.–Canada border in between two major cities of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver, British Columbia (located to the northwest) and Seattle ( to the south). The city had a population of 92,314 as of 2019. The city of Bellingham, incorporated in 1903, consolidated four settlements: Bellingham, Whatcom, Fairhaven, and Sehome. It takes its name from Bellingham Bay, named by George Vancouver in 1792, for Sir William Bellingham, the Controller of Storekeeper Accounts of the Royal Navy during the Vancouver Expedition. Today, Bellingham is the northernmost city with a population of more than 90,000 people in the contiguous United States. It is a popular tourist destination known for its easy access to outdoor recreation in the San Juan Islands and North Cascades. More than of former industrial land on the Bellingham waterfront is undergoing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canadian border, west of the Washington– Idaho border, and east of Seattle, along I-90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of ''Hooptown USA'', due to Spokane annually hosting Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, west of Downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second-largest city in Washington, and the 101st-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bremerton, Washington
Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington. The population was 37,729 at the 2010 census and an estimated 41,405 in 2019, making it the largest city on the Kitsap Peninsula. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap. Bremerton is connected to downtown Seattle by two ferries: a 60-minute ferry that carries both vehicles and walk-on passengers, and a 28-minute Fast Ferry that carries passengers and a limited number of bicycles. Geography Bremerton, the largest city in Kitsap County, is located directly west of Seattle across Puget Sound on the Kitsap Peninsula. It is bounded on the southeast and east by Sinclair Inlet and the strait of Port Orchard respectively. The city is divided by the Port Washington Narrows, a strait spanned by two bridges that connect the eastern and western sides of the city. The part of the city northeast of the narrows is referred to as East Bremerton. The city limits extend to the southwest a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The city's population was 219,346 at the time of the 2020 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third-largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, called təˡqʷuʔbəʔ in the Puget Sound Salish dialect. It is locally known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-water harbor, Commencement Bay. By connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacoma's motto became "When rails ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago American Giants
The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster, they were charter members of Foster's Negro National League. The American Giants won five pennants in that league, along with another pennant in the 1932 Negro Southern League and a second-half championship in Gus Greenlee's Negro National League in 1934. Founding In 1910, Foster, captain of the Chicago Leland Giants, wrestled legal control of the name "Leland Giants" away from the team's owner, Frank Leland. That season, featuring Hall of Fame shortstop John Henry Lloyd, outfielder Pete Hill, second baseman Grant Johnson, catcher Bruce Petway, and pitcher Frank Wickware, the Leland Giants reportedly won 123 games while losing only 6. In 1911, Foster renamed the club the "American Giants". Franchise continuum Date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fay Washington
Lafayette Washington (January 26, 1915 – April 11, 1975) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s. A native of Alma, Arkansas, Washington made his Negro leagues debut in 1940 with the St. Louis–New Orleans Stars. He went on to play for the Birmingham Black Barons and Cincinnati Clowns, and finished his career in 1946 with the Seattle Steelheads. Washington died in Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ... in 1975 at age 60. References External links anSeamheads 1915 births 1975 deaths People from Alma, Arkansas Baseball players from Arkansas Birmingham Black Barons players Cincinnati Clowns players St. Louis–New Orleans Stars players Seattle Steelheads players 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{negro-league-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Simpson . He was 94.
Herbert Harold Simpson (August 29, 1920 – January 7, 2015) was an American baseball player in the Negro leagues. He played for the Seattle Steelheads in the West Coast Negro Baseball League. He also played for the Birmingham Black Barons and the Chicago American Giants. In the Minor Leagues, he played for the Spokane Indians and the Albuquerque Dukes. Simpson died in January 2015 in New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans References External links 1920 births 2015 deaths[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogers Pierre
Rogers Joseph Pierre (July 26, 1913 – July 27, 1996) was an American Negro league pitcher between 1939 and 1946. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Pierre made his Negro leagues debut in 1939 with the Chicago American Giants, and played for the Seattle Steelheads The Seattle Steelheads were a Negro league baseball team from Seattle, Washington. Owned by Abe Saperstein, they were also known as the Harlem Globetrotters and Cincinnati Crescents, though occasionally the teams split and played each other. F ... in 1946. He died in New Orleans in 1996 at age 83. References External links anSeamheads 1913 births 1996 deaths Chicago American Giants players Seattle Steelheads players Baseball pitchers Baseball players from New Orleans 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{Negro-league-baseball-pitcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zell Miles
Zell Miles (October 6, 1909 - December 18, 1970) was a professional baseball left fielder and pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played with the Chicago American Giants from 1937 to 1940. He also played for the Seattle Steelheads in the West Coast Negro Baseball Association in 1946 and the Minot Mallards of the Mandak League The Manitoba-Dakota League was an independent baseball league based in Manitoba and North Dakota that was founded in 1950. It became the home for many African-American and Latino players. The league lasted through the 1957 season. It was known i ... in 1951. References External links anSeamheads Chicago American Giants players Minot Mallards players Seattle Steelheads players 1909 births 1970 deaths Baseball outfielders Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Alabama 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{Negro-league-baseball-outfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nap Gulley
Napoleon Gulley (August 29, 1924 – August 21, 1999) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s. Early life Napoleon Gulley was born on August 29, 1924, in Huttig, Arkansas, to parents Roland G. Gulley and Cinderella Fountain. He attended Vashon High School in St. Louis, Missouri, where he played baseball, basketball, and football. Playing career Major Leagues Kansas City Monarchs At the age of 16 while playing for local semi pro teams in Missouri, Gulley was signed by Dizzy Dismukes, then general manager of the Kansas City Monarchs. Gulley briefly joined the Monarchs in spring training before he was traded to the Birmingham Black Barons. Birmingham Black Barons Gulley was a member of the Black Barons pitching staff in 1941 and 1942, though he did not make any recorded appearances in league play. Cleveland Buckeyes Gulley joined the Cleveland Buckeyes in 1943 and remained on the pitching staff through 1945. Gulley is credited with a single league appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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