Benjamin F. Holmes (April 3, 1858 – May 11, 1949) was an American
Negro league
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 ...
third baseman
A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball or softball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. In the scoring system us ...
in the 1880s and 1890s.
A native of
King and Queen County, Virginia, Holmes played several seasons for the
Cuban Giants between 1886 and 1891.
He died in
Washington, D.C.
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, in 1949 at age 91.
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1858 births
1949 deaths
Cuban Giants players
Baseball third basemen
Baseball players from Virginia
People from King and Queen County, Virginia
20th-century African-American sportspeople
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