Walter "Rev" Cannady (March 6, 1904 - December 3, 1981) was an American

baseball 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 ...

infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field. Standard arrangement of positions In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles. ...

in the

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 ...

. He played from 1921 to 1945 with several teams. He also managed 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 1938.

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* 1904 births Baseball players from Florida People from Lake City, Florida Baseball infielders Chicago American Giants players Cincinnati Clowns players Cleveland Tate Stars players Harrisburg Giants players Hilldale Club players Homestead Grays players New York Black Yankees players New York Cubans players Lincoln Giants players Pittsburgh Crawfords players Negro league baseball managers 1981 deaths 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{Negro-league-baseball-infielder-stub