Sir Lurksalot photopack (Negro League players)

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This John Dawson died in January, 2014, at the age of 71, so it is likely that he was born in 1942. At any rate, he is not the Johnny Dawson listed in the Negro Baseball Register for the 1938-42 period of play in the Negro Leagues. Coincidentally, he was a catcher who played with the Birmingham Black Barons, but his stint with the team was in 1961. He also played with the Philadelphia Stars, but I don't know the year or years.

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Porter Reed played with the Houston Eagles in 1949. He was an outfielder.

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Here's another photo of Porter Reed, this time from his playing days. This shows him in the uniform of the Ligon All-Stars.

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The Negro Baseball Register in THE NEGRO LEAGUES BOOK, edited by Dick Clark and Larry Lester, lists an unknown-first-name Finley with the 1938 Washington Black Senators. The attached is identified as Finley in the 1938 team photo of the Washington Black Senators.

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Harry Kincannon, P, is shown in the uniform of the Washington Black Senators.

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Edward "Eddie" or "Big Red" Powell, C, is shown in the uniform of the Washington Black Senators.

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Charlie Smith, INF, is shown in the uniform of the Washington Black Senators. Like the photo of Finley, this is pretty poor at showing the facial details of the player, but it's the only one I've found of him thus far.

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Harry Passon was an officer with the 1934 Bacharach Giants. This is a much improved photo over the one I previously posted of him.

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Jose Maria Fernandez, Jr. was a catcher with the New York Cubans from 1948 to 1950. He is shown here on a 1949 Acebo y Cia baseball card in the uniform of the Marianao baseball club of Cuba.

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Frank Lindsay (or Lindsey) Forbes was a SS/3B/OF who played with the Philadelphia Giants, Lincoln Stars, Lincoln Giants, Royal Poinciana Hotel, Pennsylvania Red Caps, and Bacharach Giants during the 1913-19 period. His nicknames were Joe and Strangler. Later on, he was an umpire, then a business manager for the New York Cubans, and a promoter for the Negro National League. The Baseball Register in THE NEGRO LEAGUES BOOK, edited by Dick Clark and Larry Lester lists Joe Forbes and Frank Forbes as two different people, but I've concluded that were both the same fellow based on newspaper reports which indicate that the older man who was a promoter for the Negro Leagues was a former Negro League ballplayer and by websites which give the nickname Joe for Frank Lindsay Forbes.

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Raul Galata was a pitcher with the Indianapolis Clowns from 1949 to 1953. He is shown here in the uniform of a Venezuelan Winter League team.

The Negro Baseball Register in THE NEGRO LEAGUES BOOK, edited by Dick Clark and Larry Lester, and THE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES, by James Riley, both list a separate pitcher by the name of Domingo Galata, who pitched for the New York Cubans in 1949 and perhaps 1950 (Riley doesn't mention 1950). I think he is the same fellow.

Baseball-reference.com gives the formal name of Raul Galata as Domingo Raul Galata Capote.

Raul Galata was well known for having pitched in the Mexican League. On December 10, 1954, the Seattle Daily Times reported that the Seattle Capilanos of the Western International Baseball League had recently acquired Raul Galata, who had previously pitched in Venezuela and Mexico. But five days earlier, the same newspaper mentioned that the Seattle general manager reported the acquisition of Domingo Galata, a left-handed pitcher, who had been in the Mexican League the year before. So the same newspaper was referring to the same player by both names. Furthermore, I found a Spanish-language newspaper in San Antonio which cited him as Domingo Raul Galata when reporting on his exploits while he was pitching for Monterrey in Mexico.

The ENCICLOPEDIA DEL BEISBOL MEXICANO lists his date of birth as Oct. 5, 1930, and says he was born in Havana, Cuba.

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Martiniano Garay was an outfielder and pitcher for the New York Cubans from 1948 to 1950. He is shown here in the uniform of the Almendares Baseball Club of Cuba, circa 1950.

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Jack Johnson, 3B, is shown in the uniform of the Homestead Grays.

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According to the website of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Ira McKnight was a catcher and outfielder in 1952 and from 1956 to 1963 for the Memphis Red Sox and Kansas City Monarchs. He is shown here in a Monarchs uniform.

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Luther Gillard was an outfielder and first baseman with six Negro League teams during the 1934-42 period. This is a photo of Luther S. Gillard from the 1931 Johnson C. Smith University Yearbook (Charlotte, NC). The yearbook indicates that this Luther Gillard was a star athlete who played basketball and football, but it does not mention baseball. The name Luther Gillard is so unusual and the timing is so close to the beginning of the Negro Leaguer's baseball career that I believe that the photo is of the correct player.

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Clyde Golden, P, is shown in the uniform of the Houston Eagles.

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Maynard Jordan, OF, is shown in the uniform of the Houston Eagles.

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Minnie Forbes was the owner of the Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958. She also went on to play third base for the 1958 Kansas City Monarchs.

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Joe "Sijo" Gomez was a catcher and pitcher with the Cuban Stars and Bacharach Giants during the 1929-33 period. He is shown here in the uniform of the Santa Marta, Venezuela, team.

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Olivia (Mrs. C. I.) Taylor was the owner of the Indianapolis ABC's during the 1922-24 period.