Joe "Old Forty-Five" Scotland (August 18, 1882 – May 10, 1923) 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 ...

center fielder A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field – the baseball and softball fielding position between left field and right field. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the c ...

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 1914 to 1919 with the

Indianapolis ABCs The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro league baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League (NNL). They claimed the western championship of black baseball in 1915 and 1916, and fini ...

Louisville White Sox The Louisville Black Caps were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisvi ...

, Chicago Union Giants, and the Indianapolis Jewell's ABCs.

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Birmingham Giants players Louisville White Sox (1914-1915) players Indianapolis ABCs players 1882 births 1923 deaths Baseball players from Montgomery, Alabama Baseball players from Indianapolis 20th-century African-American people Baseball outfielders {{Negro-league-baseball-outfielder-stub