Joseph Scott (June 15, 1918 – January 12, 1997) was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1940s. A native of

Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population of 393,406 in 2020, is t ...

, Scott made his Negro leagues debut in 1946 with the Los Angeles White Sox. He played for the

Birmingham Black Barons The Birmingham Black Barons were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 until 1960. They shared their home field of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, with the white Birmingham Barons, usually drawing larger crowds and equal pres ...

in 1948, recording a hit and an RBI in three plate appearances for Birmingham during the

1948 Negro World Series The 1948 Negro World Series was the championship tournament for the 1948 season of Negro league baseball. It was the seventh edition of the second incarnation of the Negro World Series and the eleventh overall played. It was a best-of-seven playof ...

. Scott went on to play minor league baseball in the 1950s for several teams, including the

Farnham Pirates The Farnham Pirates were a minor league baseball team located in Farnham, Quebec, Canada. They played in the Provincial League from 1948 to 1951. The team was managed by Sam Bankhead, who was a player-manager. He was the first black coach in Minor ...

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, and Hot Springs Bathers. He died in Los Angeles, California in 1997 at age 78.

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