Larnie Lee Jordan (April 23, 1914 – February 8, 1987), nicknamed "Boo", was an American

Negro league 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 ...

shortstop Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions. Historically the position was assigned to defensive specialists who ...

between 1936 and 1942. A native of

Valdosta, Georgia Valdosta is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, Lowndes County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. As of 2019, Valdosta had an estimated population of 56,457. Valdosta is the principal city of the Valdosta Metr ...

, Jordan made his Negro leagues debut in 1936 with the Philadelphia Bacharach Giants. He played for the Philadelphia Stars in 1940 and 1941, and finished his career with the

New York Black Yankees The New York Black Yankees were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New York City; Paterson, New Jersey; and Rochester, New York. Beginning as the independent Harlem Stars, the team was renamed the New York Black Yankees in 1932 and ...

in 1942. Jordan died in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

in 1987 at age 72.

References

External links

an
Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats
an
Seamheads
1914 births 1987 deaths Bacharach Giants players New York Black Yankees players Philadelphia Stars players Baseball shortstops Baseball players from Philadelphia Baseball players from Valdosta, Georgia 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{Negro-league-baseball-infielder-stub