George Isaac "Mule" Armstrong (July 28, 1885 – April 27, 1954) was a

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 ...

catcher Catcher is a Baseball positions, position in baseball and softball. When a Batter (baseball), batter takes their at bat, turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the (home plate, home) Umpire (baseball), umpire, and recei ...

for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League. 1910StPaulGophers

While catching for the

Buxton Wonders The Buxton Wonders was a small club of black baseball players formed in Buxton, Iowa running from approximately 1907 to 1920. Buxton, Iowa was a company town founded by the Consolidation Coal Company in 1900. It remained a productive coal mining ...

, a traveling team from

Buxton, Iowa The Consolidation Coal Company (CCC) was founded in 1875 in Iowa and purchased by the Chicago and North Western Railroad in 1880 in order to secure a local source of coal. The company operated in south central Iowa in Mahaska and Monroe count ...

, Armstrong and teammate

Lefty Pangburn Thomas Clarington Pangburn (July 20, 1886 – January 1973), nicknamed "Lefty", was an American Negro league pitcher between 1909 and 1911. A native of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, Pangburn made his Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United Sta ...

were picked up by the St. Paul Colored Gophers where he played for two seasons in 1910 and 1911 (the second season the team changed their name to the Twin Cities Gophers). In 1912, he and fellow players

Dicta Johnson Louis "Dicta" Johnson (born June 29, 1887) was an American spitball pitcher in Negro league baseball and during the pre-Negro league years. He played from 1908 until 1923, mostly for the Indianapolis ABCs and the Chicago American Giants. In 19 ...

and Bee Seldon moved to the French Lick Plutos of Indiana. Armstrong and

Bingo DeMoss Elwood "Bingo" DeMoss (September 5, 1889 – January 26, 1965) was a baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues from 1905 to 1943. Early life DeMoss was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1889 and began his playing career in 1905 with the Topeka ...

moved to the

Chicago Giants The Chicago Giants were a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois which played in the Negro leagues from 1910 to 1921. History The team was founded by Frank Leland after he and his partner, Rube Foster, split up the Leland Giant ...

in the following year.

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