Theodore Trent (December 17, 1903 – January 10, 1944) 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 ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

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 1927 to 1939 with several teams, playing mostly for the St. Louis Stars and

Chicago American Giants The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Fo ...

. Trent was considered the best pitcher on the St. Louis Stars, when the team won three pennants from 1927 to 1931. He was nicknamed Highpockets, Stringbean, and Big Florida, because he was one of the tallest players in the Negro leagues.

References

External links

an
Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats
an
Seamheads
1903 births 1944 deaths Chicago American Giants players Cuban Stars (West) players Detroit Wolves players Homestead Grays players New York Black Yankees players St. Louis Stars (baseball) players Washington Pilots players Baseball players from Florida 20th-century African-American sportspeople Baseball pitchers {{Negro-league-baseball-pitcher-stub