Peter Burns (January 1870 - death date unknown) 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 position in baseball and softball. When a batter takes their turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the ( home) umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. In addition to this primary duty, the ca ...
for several years before the founding of the first
Negro National League.
Little is known about Burns at this time, but records show him on teams lists
and in newspaper reports
from 1890 to 1900.
He played with several of the big players of the day, such as
Chappie Johnson,
Charlie Grant
Charles Grant Jr. (August 31, 1874 – July 9, 1932) was an American second baseman in Negro league baseball. During his 20-year career, he played for some of the best teams in the Negro leagues. Grant nearly crossed the baseball color lin ...
,
Sherman Barton, and he caught for the famous pitcher of the day
George Wilson.
During his time with the
Page Fence Giants
The Page Fence Giants were a professional Black-American baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan, from 1895 to 1898, performing as one of the nation's top teams in the Negro leagues. Named after the Page Woven Wire Fence Company in Adrian, they ...
, Burns often caught for
Bill Holland
Willard Holland (December 18, 1907 – May 19, 1984)) was an American race car driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1949 and finished second in 1947, 1948 and 1950. He also was runner up in the 1947 American ...
.
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Seamheads
Chicago Unions players
Columbia Giants players
Page Fence Giants players
Baseball players from Alabama
20th-century deaths
1870 births
Year of death missing
20th-century African-American people
Baseball catchers
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