Ross "Satchel" Davis (July 28, 1918 – January 1, 2013) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played with the Baltimore Elite Giants in 1940, and with the Cleveland Buckeyes in 1943 and 1947. In 1940, he and

Willie Hubert William Henry Hubert (January 19, 1913 – May 19, 2000), nicknamed "Bubber", was an American Negro league pitcher between 1939 and 1946. A native of Ocala, Florida, Hubert made his Negro leagues debut in 1939 with the Newark Eagles. In 1940 ...

tossed a combined

no-hitter In baseball, a no-hitter is a game in which a team was not able to record a hit. Major League Baseball (MLB) officially defines a no-hitter as a completed game in which a team that batted in at least nine innings recorded no hits. A pitcher wh ...

for Baltimore against the Newark Eagles. Davis served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II.

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