Sir Lurksalot photopack (Negro League players)

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Ervin Ford was an outfielder with the Indianapolis Clowns in 1951. He then launched a minor league career, becoming the first Afro-American player with the Appleton Papermakers in 1952. He returned to the Clowns for 1954 and 1955. Then he was back into the minors with El Paso in 1956. The photo shows him with the El Paso Texans, and is from the El Paso Times of July 15, 1956. Some sources identify him as Erwin Ford.

His baseball-reference.com record for minor league purposes is at:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=ford--001erv

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Oran Frazier was an infielder with the Montgomery Grey Sox in 1932. The photo is from the Pittsburgh Courier of October 31, 1931. It shows Oran as the quarterback and captain of the Alabama State University Hornets football team.

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Candido "Cuneo" Galvez was a pitcher with the Cuban Giants in 1932. I have also seen his formal first name expressed as Facundo, and his nickname as "Cundo." The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

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Excuse me if I am a dunce, but are these available in a collection somewhere?

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Originally Posted by RANGER11JP

Excuse me if I am a dunce, but are these available in a collection somewhere?

Sorry, but these have only been posted one at a time. No facepack or anything like that for photos on this thread.

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Pedro Gonzalez was a pitcher with the Havana Reds and Long Branch Cubans in 1915 and 1916, respectively. Gonzalez was born in Cuba in 1895. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

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Ramon Gonzalez was a third baseman with the Long Branch Cubans, Breakers Hotel, and Cuban Stars East during the 1916-1919 period. He is shown here in the Almendares, Cuba uniform. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

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Originally Posted by Cusick

Sorry, but these have only been posted one at a time. No facepack or anything like that for photos on this thread.

Okay, now at least I can remove the dunce cap!

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Ernest "Pud" Gooden was an infielder, primarily a second baseman, with the Pittsburgh Keystones, Cleveland Tate Stars, Toledo Tigers, and Chicago American Giants during the years of 1922 and 1923. He was from the Pittsburgh area and returned there after playing baseball, becoming a partner in the real estate business. He died unexpectedly at the young age of 34 from a heart attack. The photo is from his death announcement in the Pittsburgh Courier of October 20, 1934.

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Johnny Goodgame was a pitcher with the Chicago Leland Giants, Chicago Giants, Brooklyn Royal Giants, and West Baden Sprudels during the years of 1911 and 1912. He is shown here with the West Baden Sprudels. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

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Joseph Henry "Joe" Goodrich played 3B/2B/SS for the Washington Potomacs, Philadelphia Giants, and Harrisburg Giants during the 1922-26 period. The photo is from the seamheads.com website. It shows Goodrich with the Washington Potomacs.

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Miller "Sandman" Guyton was a third baseman with the Kansas City Monarchs and Philadelphia Stars in 1951. The photo is from a team picture of the minor league Big Springs (TX) Cosden Cops squad of the Class C Longhorn League. It comes from the Big Springs Herald of March 27, 1955. Baseball-reference.com does not contain a record for Miller Guyton, so he either did not play in the minors or if he did, it was for a very minimal number of games (or B-R.com simply missed him). His hometown was Big Springs.

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Henry H. Hannon was an outfielder, third baseman, and catcher with a multitude of Negro League teams during the 1908-14 period. They included the Cuban Giants, Philadelphia Stars, St. Louis Stars, St. Louis Giants, Chicago Giants, French Lick Plutos, and Louisville White Sox. He went on to manage the Montgomery Grey Sox, where the photo below was taken in 1916. It is from the book BASEBALL IN MONTGOMERY, by Clarence Watkins.

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Charlie Henry was a pitcher with Hilldale and the Harrisburg Giants during the 1922-1926 period. According to the book THE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES, by James A. Riley, Charlie Henry went on to become the manager of the Zulu Cannibal Giants during the 1930's. The photo comes from the seamheads.com website.

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Reginald Hopwood was an outfielder with the 1928 Kansas City Monarchs. The photo shows him in a Monarchs uniform. The photo is from the Winter 2018 issue of the Ramsey County (MN) History journal. The photo was provided to that publication courtesy of Victoria Hopwood, Reginald's daughter.

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Michael "Mike" Houlemard was a pitcher for the 1954 Birmingham Black Barons. Think I have a photo of the right Mike Houlemard. This photo comes from the Pasadena (CA) Independent of Oct. 8, 1962. It shows him in the uniform of the Norens semi-pro team of Pasadena, where he performed as both a pitcher and outfielder. An article in a 1964 issue of that same Pasadena Independent newspaper established his age as 31, and his original home town as New Orleans. So he would have been around age 21 if he were the same fellow pitching for the Birmingham Black Barons in 1954, which would fit OK.

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Charles Jessup was a pitcher with the Chicago Union Giants (1907) and the Minneapolis Keystones (1908-09). The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

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Burton "Burt" Johnson was an outfielder with the Washington Pilots (1932), Balitmore Black Sox (1933), Newark Dodgers (1934-35), and Birmingham Black Barons (1938). He is shown here in his Newark Dodgers uniform. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

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James "Gabby" Kemp was a second baseman with the Atlanta Black Crackers during the 1937-39 period. He also made appearances with the Jacksonville Red Caps in 1938 and 1941. The photo shows him with the Atlanta Black Crackers and is from the seamheads.com website.

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Harry Leavell was an outfielder and first baseman with the Genuine Cuban Giants, Cuban Giants, and Cuban Stars during the 1908-1912 period. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.