Raymond "Tank" Austin was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played with the Nashville Elite Giants and Birmingham Black Barons in 1930 and the Atlanta Black Crackers in 1932.

Career

Austin started the first game of the 1930 Negro National League season for the Nashville Elite Giants. He was relieved by Rosey McCauley in a losing effort against the St. Louis Stars. His final recorded game came with the Atlanta Black Crackers in 1932, when he faced the

Montgomery Grey Sox The Montgomery Grey Sox were a Negro Southern League (NSL) baseball team based in Montgomery, Alabama. While the NSL was regarded as a minor league throughout most of its existence, with the collapse of the first Negro National League in 1931, th ...

on June 19, 1932. He pitched either four or five innings, depending on the source, in a losing effort.

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