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Johnson, Grant
Perhaps the first true superstar of black baseball, Grant earned his "Home Run" sobriquet by dint of his supposedly hitting 60 HR in a season playing as a young man for his hometown Findlay Giants. Like Frank Baker, his longballs over the course of his career in the majors were more timely than numerous, with SH logging him as having hit just 14 all told during the prime Deadball Era. He's widely regarded as the best SS pre-Pop Lloyd, for whom he actually shifted to the keystone sack to accommodate his spot in the Lincoln Giants during the mid-1910s.
I'm just about to start with a full 1901-onward dev-only test save to put my profiles through some more paces, with all of the NeL players who played prior to that coming into the game in one bunch via the 1902 Draft, so you'll see more of these early guys' profiles coming through for a while.
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