Charles Winston Hancock (September 15, 1902 – July 9, 1974) was an American
Negro league catcher in the 1920s.
A native of
Lexington, Missouri
Lexington is a city in and the county seat of Lafayette County, Missouri. The population was 4,726 at the 2010 census. Located in western Missouri, Lexington lies approximately east of Kansas City and is part of the Greater Kansas City Metropol ...
, Hancock was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer
Art Hancock
Arthur Delworth Hancock (January 28, 1905 – death date unknown) was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1920s.
A native of Lexington, Missouri, Hancock was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer Charlie Hancock. He played for the Clevel ...
. He played for the
St. Louis Giants
The St. Louis Stars, originally the St. Louis Giants, were a Negro league baseball team that competed independently from as early as 1906 to 1919, and then joined the Negro National League (NNL) for the duration of their existence. After the 192 ...
in 1921, and for the
Chicago American Giants in 1928. Hancock died in
Sioux City, Iowa in 1974 at age 71.
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1902 births
1974 deaths
Chicago American Giants players
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