Louis Clarizio, Jr. (born September 21, 1931) is one of the six white professional

baseball players 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 ...

signed to play in the

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, the second ever signed. He played in the

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. He was signed to the

Chicago American Giants The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Fo ...

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by Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe with the support of the team's owner, Dr. J. B. Martin, who was concerned about black players joining Major League teams.Louis Clarizio
at pitchblackbaseball.com, URL accessed December 7, 2009. 12/7/09

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1931 births Chicago American Giants players American sportspeople of Italian descent People from Schaumburg Living people {{Negro-league-baseball-outfielder-stub

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