Albert Elliott "Buster" Haywood (January 12, 1910 – April 19, 2000) was a
Negro league baseball player and
manager.
He played for the
Clowns in both Indianapolis and Cincinnati, the
Birmingham Black Barons, and the
New York Cubans. He won Most Valuable Player of the 1941
Denver Post Tournament The Denver Post Tournament was organized in the 1920s to be "the World Series of semi-pro baseball." The event was sponsored by the ''Denver Post'' and featured ten invited teams. In 1934, Negro league players and Black players began to participate, ...
. He worked a player/manager of the Clowns and was
Hank Aaron's first professional manager. He also managed the
Memphis Red Sox in 1954.
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1910 births
2000 deaths
Cincinnati Clowns players
Indianapolis Clowns players
Birmingham Black Barons players
New York Cubans players
African-American baseball managers
Negro league baseball managers
20th-century African-American sportspeople
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