Fred "Lefty" Bell (March 19, 1902 - October 11, 1936) was an American

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

in the

Negro leagues 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 ...

. He played from 1923 to 1927, and again in 1932, playing with several teams. He was the brother of

Cool Papa Bell James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell (May 17, 1903 – March 7, 1991) was an American center fielder in Negro league baseball from 1922 to 1946. He is considered to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game. Stories demonstrating Bell's s ...

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1902 births Kansas City Monarchs players St. Louis Stars (baseball) players St. Louis Giants (1924) players Detroit Stars players Montgomery Grey Sox players Toledo Tigers players Baseball players from Mississippi 1936 deaths Sportspeople from Starkville, Mississippi Baseball pitchers 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{Negro-league-baseball-pitcher-stub