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West Baden Sprudels
The West Baden Sprudels were an early Negro league baseball team that played as an independent club owned by the Burnett-Pollard-Rogers Baseball Club Company, where Edward Rogers was the Chief Officer. Founding The Sprudels appear to have been from Springs Valley, Indiana, but they often frequented baseball diamonds near the West Baden Springs Hotel in West Baden Springs, Indiana, and the French Lick Springs Hotel in French Lick, Indiana. Games started between the teams between 1907 and 1908.The Indianapolis ABCs: History of a Premier Team in the Negro Leagues by Paul Debono The team was managed by C. I. Taylor from 1910 to 1913. Their name derived from a bottled water produced at the Hotel. The Hotel bordered on a local salt lick and mineral spring and the minerals from the spring made the water act as an effective and marketable natural laxative. The product was labeled as "Sprudel Water" (from German "Sprudelwasser" meaning "sparkling water"). Their frequent rivals, the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Lick Township, Indiana
French Lick Township is one of ten Civil township, townships in Orange County, Indiana, Orange County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,699 and it contained 2,263 housing units. History French Lick Township was named after French Lick Creek. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.59%) is land and (or 0.41%) is water. Cities, towns, villages * French Lick, Indiana, French Lick * West Baden Springs, Indiana, West Baden Springs Unincorporated towns * Abydel, Indiana, Abydel at * Prospect, Indiana, Prospect at * Roland, Indiana, Roland at (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Cemeteries The township contains these three cemeteries: Mount Lebanon, Pythian and Sulphur Creek. Major highways * U.S. Route 150 * Indiana State Road 56 * Indiana State Road 145 Airports and landing strips * French Lick Municipal Airport School districts * Springs Valley Community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Stars (West)
The Cuban Stars were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that competed in the United States Negro leagues from 1907 to 1930. The team was also sometimes known as the Cuban Stars of Havana, Stars of Cuba, Cuban All-Stars, Havana Reds, Almendares Blues or simply as the Cubans. For one season, 1921, the team played home games in Cincinnati, Ohio and was known as the Cincinnati Cubans. Eastern founding The Cuban Stars were organized by Abel Linares and Tinti Molina as a traveling team that played only road games. For its first five years, the team competed primarily in the eastern states, near New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore although it made a famous sojourn into Chicago in 1910 and 1911, taking on the Leland Giants and numerous semi-pro teams in the Chicago area. Move westward By 1916, however, the team was competing primarily in the midwestern states and a competing Cuban team was organized in the New York area, which was also named the "Cuban Stars." To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wabishaw Wiley
Wabishaw Spencer Wiley (February 1, 1887 – November 3, 1944), nicknamed "Doc", was a catcher in Negro league baseball. He played from 1910 to 1924."Wabishaw Wiley" coe.ksu.edu. Retrieved September 16, 2011. Baseball career Wiley was born on February 1, 1877, in . He began his career in 1910 as a catcher for the . He then played for the in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steel Arm Johnny Taylor
John Boyce Taylor (August 12, 1879 – March 25, 1956) was the second-oldest of four baseball-playing brothers, the others being Charles, Benjamin, and James. Taylor was a pitcher and played in professional pre-league and Negro league baseball from 1903 to 1925. Taylor was given his baseball nickname, "Steel-Arm Johnnie," by a white sportswriter for the Charlotte Observer (a predominantly white paper during the time) wrote about Taylor's great speed, when he pitched for Biddle University in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1898. In the summer of 1898, he played two months for the Greenwood, South Carolina Red Stockings, and finished the season with the Greenville, South Carolina team. In 1899 and 1900, Taylor pitched for his home club in Anderson, South Carolina where he reportedly won 90 percent of his games. During the spring months of 1899 and later in 1905, he coached the Biddle University team. He pitched the 1903 season for the Birmingham Giants where he pitched from thirt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Taylor (Negro Leagues)
Benjamin Harrison Taylor (July 1, 1888 – January 24, 1953) was an American first baseman and manager in baseball's Negro leagues. Taylor played for the Birmingham Giants, Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABC's, St. Louis Giants, Bacharach Giants, Washington Potomacs, Harrisburg Giants, and Baltimore Black Sox. His playing career lasted from to . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006. Early life Taylor was born in Anderson, South Carolina. He was the youngest of four brothers who all became famous in baseball, including C.I., Candy Jim and Johnny "Steel Arm". Negro league career Taylor initiated his career as a pitcher for the Birmingham Giants in 1908. After playing for the St. Louis Giants (1911–12), New York Lincoln Giants (1912) and Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants (1913–14), Taylor made his name playing for the team one of his brothers, C.I. Taylor, managed and owned, the Indianapolis ABCs. Following a 1915 season in which he hit .308, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther O'Neal
Luther O'Neal (May 15, 1889 – death unknown) was an American Negro league catcher in the 1910s. A native of Lincoln County, Tennessee, O'Neal made his Negro leagues debut in 1910 with the West Baden Sprudels. He played five seasons with the Sprudels, and also played for the Louisville White Sox and Indianapolis ABCs The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro league baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League (NNL). They claimed the western championship of black baseball in 1915 and 1916, and fini ... in 1914. References External links * anSeamheads 1889 births Place of death missing Year of death missing Indianapolis ABCs players Louisville White Sox (1914-1915) players West Baden Sprudels players Baseball catchers {{Negro-league-baseball-catcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Moore (baseball)
Eugene Moore (birthdate unknown) was a Negro leagues outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to cat ... for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first couple seasons. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads Birmingham Giants players Lincoln Giants players St. Louis Giants players Indianapolis ABCs players Detroit Stars players Louisville White Sox (1914-1915) players St. Louis Stars (baseball) players Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{Negro-league-baseball-outfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Lewis
Jerome Ambrose Lewis (January 14, 1890 – October 25, 1962) was an American Negro league infielder who played in the 1910s. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Lewis attended Talladega College. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1910 with the West Baden Sprudels. He went on to play four seasons with the Sprudels, and also played for the Leland Giants in 1913. Lewis died in French Lick, Indiana French Lick is a town in French Lick Township, Orange County, Indiana. The population was 1,807 at the time of the 2010 census. In November 2006, the French Lick Resort Casino, the state's tenth casino in the modern legalized era, opened, drawing ... in 1962 at age 72. References External links anSeamheads 1890 births 1962 deaths Leland Giants players West Baden Sprudels players Baseball infielders Baseball players from Memphis, Tennessee 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{negro-league-baseball-infielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tick Houston
W. E. "Tick" Houston was a Negro league infielder between 1909 and 1920. Houston made his Negro leagues debut in 1909 with the Birmingham Giants. He went on to play for several teams through 1920, including the West Baden Sprudels, Louisville White Sox, Indianapolis ABCs, and Kansas City Monarchs The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by J. L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 193 .... References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads Place of birth missing Place of death missing Year of birth missing Year of death missing Birmingham Giants players Indianapolis ABCs players Kansas City Monarchs players Louisville White Sox (1914-1915) players West Baden Sprudels players Baseball infielders {{negro-league-baseball-infielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Clark
Morten Avery "Specs" Clark (December 19, 1889 – November 17, 1943) was an American baseball shortstop in the pre-Negro leagues. He was born December 19, 1889, in Bristol, Tennessee, and played professional baseball for the Birmingham Giants in 1908. He would play a large part of his career for the Indianapolis ABCs. Clark died in Los Angeles on November 17, 1943, and is buried at the National Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. His World War I draft registration card showed him single, as of 1917. Almost a decade after his death, Clark received votes listing him on the 1952 ''Pittsburgh Courier The ''Pittsburgh Courier'' was an African-American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1907 until October 22, 1966. By the 1930s, the ''Courier'' was one of the leading black newspapers in the United States. It was acqu ...'' player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever. (Some papers have him listed as "Martin" Clark.) References Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brown (1910s Outfielder)
George W. Brown (October 24, 1885September 16, 1955) was a Negro leagues outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to cat ... for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first two seasons. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads 1885 births 1955 deaths Negro league baseball managers Indianapolis ABCs players St. Louis Giants players Dayton Marcos players Cleveland Tate Stars players Detroit Stars players Baseball players from Aurora, Illinois Baseball players from Illinois Baseball outfielders 20th-century African-American people {{Negro-league-baseball-outfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bingo Bingham
William Horace "Bingo" Bingham (born April 16, 1885) was a Negro leagues outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to c ... for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first couple seasons. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads {{DEFAULTSORT:Bingham, William Negro league baseball managers 1885 births Year of death missing Birmingham Giants players Chicago Giants players French Lick Plutos players Leland Giants players West Baden Sprudels players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
