Edward Louis Finney (November 4, 1924 – March 17, 1998), nicknamed "Mike", 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 1940s.
A native of
Akron, Ohio
Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 C ...
, Finney made his Negro leagues debut in 1947 for the
Baltimore Elite Giants
The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro league baseball, Negro leagues from to . The team was established by Tom Wilson (Negro baseball), Thomas T. Wilson, in Nashville, Tennessee as the semi-pro Nash ...
, and played for Baltimore again in 1948.
He died in Akron in 1998 at age 73.
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1924 births
1998 deaths
Baltimore Elite Giants players
Baseball third basemen
Baseball players from Akron, Ohio
20th-century African-American sportspeople
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