Julius C. McHaskell (July 31, 1902 – March 1970) was an American

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in the 1920s. A native of

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff, officially the City of Pine Bluff, is the List of municipalities in Arkansas, tenth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County, Arkansas, Jefferson County. The population of the city wa ...

, McHaskell made his Negro leagues debut in 1926 with the

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. He went on to play three more seasons with Memphis through 1929. McHaskell died in

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in 1970 at age 67.

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