Sir Lurksalot photopack (Negro League players)

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Felton Stratton was a utility player (OF/2B/SS/C) for several Negro League teams over the years 1923-24, 1930, and 1933. He was with the Milwaukee Bears, Birmingham Black Barons, Hilldale, and Nashville Elite Giants. The photo is from the Seamheads.com website.

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Roosevelt "Speed" Tate was an outfielder with numerous Negro Leagues team during the 1931-37 time-frame. Those teams included the Birmingham Black Barons, Nashville Elite Giants, Memphis Red Sox, Cincinnati Tigers, Knoxville Giants, Louisville White Sox, Chicago American Giants, and Louisville Black Caps. He is shown here with the Claybrook (AR) Tigers from the arkbaseball.com website.

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Jose "Gacho" Torres was a first baseman on the 1926 Newark Stars. He was a major star in his homeland of Puerto Rico, where he pitched and played the outfield as well. The photo is from the Seamheads.com website. My guess is that the "C" on the cap is for "Cienfuegos" in Cuba.

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Nat Trammell was a first baseman with the Birmingham Black Barons and Brooklyn Royals Giants during the 1930-32 period. The photo is from the Colored Baseball & Sports Monthly magazine, which was edited by Mr. Trammell.

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THE NEGRO LEAGUES BOOK, by Larry Lester and Dick Clark, lists this player as Albert Streets. He was an infielder with the 1925 Chicago American Giants. However, the source of this photo, an article by Timothy Rives and Robert Rives for Prologue Magazine, calls him Albert Street. Tim Rives is an archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration Kansas City office, which oversees the records of Fort Leavenworth, where Street was imprisoned. This is a prison photo of the man, so it is apparent that Tim Rives is on solid ground with the name he uses to identify the player.

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Joseph "Joe" Fleet was a pitcher for the 1930 Chicago American Giants. This is another photo from the Prologue Magazine article by Rives and Rives. In this case, however, the subject is in a shirt and tie rather than a prison uniform.

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Simon Valdes was a second baseman with the All Cubans, Cuban X Giants, and Cuban Stars of Havana. His years in Negro League baseball were 1905, 1906, and 1911. The photo is from the Seamheads.com website and shows him with an unidentified Cuban team.

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Eduardo Valdes-Perez was a pitcher with the 1915 Havana Stars and 1918 Cuban Stars. The photo is from the Seamheads.com website. His uniform is not identified, though it is obviously Cuban of some sort.

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Jose Sotero "Huesito" Vargas was an outfielder with the Cuban Stars East and New York Cubans. His years in the Negro Leagues were 1935, 1939, and 1944. The photo is from the Seamheads.com website.

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"Noisy" Wallace was a catcher with the 1907 St. Paul Gophers and 1909 Illinois Giants. I think the photo shows him with the St. Paul Gophers. It is from the Seamheads.com website.

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Barron Wilkins was a night club owner in Harlem and a financier of Negro League baseball. He was an officer of the New York Bacharach Giants from 1919 through 1927.

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Koney Williams was a shortstop and first baseman with the 1948 Indianapolis Clowns and the 1950 Brooklyn Cuban Giants. He is shown with the latter team in this photo from the Saint Joseph (MI) Herald-Press of June 1, 1950.

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The formal name of this player is Norldon Leroy Williams. Various sources refer to him as Leroy or Jeff Williams. He was a shortstop and second baseman for the Newark Eagles and Kansas City Monarchs during the 1945-51 period. Then he moved into affiliated minor league ball, playing for the Yankee, Cub, and Reds organizations.

The photo shows him in a Kansas City Monarchs uniform.

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Roy S. Williams was a pitcher in the Negro Leagues from 1930 through 1935. He was with the following teams: Memphis Red Sox, Homestead Grays, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Baltimore Black Sox, and Newark Eagles.

The photo is from the Seamheads.com website.

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Originally Posted by Cusick

"Don" Pelham, OF, is shown in the uniform of the Atlanta Black Crackers.

That's my Dad! his 1st name is Wilson, not William. I'm Hosea Pelham, 3rd oldest of 6. Still trying to find out his jersey number with ABC.

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Irvin "Chester" Brooks was with the Brooklyn Royal Giants from 1918 to 1933, mostly playing the outfield. This photo is from the Seamheads.com website, and shows him with the Brooklyn team. The photo is intended to replace the one of Chester on page 2 of this thread, which has been removed from PhotoBucket.

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William "Bobby" Robinson was mostly a third baseman in the Negro Leagues from 1925 to 1940. He played for the Indianapolis ABC's, Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox, Detroit Stars, Cleveland Stars, Cleveland Red Sox, Baltimore Elite Giants, Philadelphia Bacharach Giants, and St. Louis-New Orleans-Harrisburg Stars. The photo shows him with the Detroit Stars and is from the book, BLACK BASEBALL IN DETROIT, by Lester, Miller and Clark.

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George "Chappie" Johnson was a catcher and first baseman for a host of Negro League teams from 1899 to 1922. He is seen here in the uniform of the Columbia Giants. The image is from Sol White's HISTORY OF COLORED BASE BALL.

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Charlie Biot was an outfielder in the Negro Leagues from 1939 through 1941. He was with the Newark Eagles, New York Black Yankees, and Baltimore Elite Giants. He is shown here with the Baltimore team. The photo is from Robert Retort's PICTORIAL NEGRO LEAGUE LEGENDS ALBUM.

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Connie Johnson was a pitcher with the Kansas City Monarchs from 1941 through 1948, with time out for World War II. He made his major league debut in 1953 and finished with the Orioles in 1958.

He is shown here in a Monarchs' uniform. The photo is from Robert Retort's PICTORIAL NEGRO LEAGUE LEGENDS ALBUM.