MLB: Best Black Baseball Pitcher?
MLB: Best Black Baseball Pitcher?
Panel to choose top-five hurlers before baseball’s integration
From Major League Baseball:
In the wake of “The Year of the Pitcher” and in a salute to Black History Month, MLB.com posed the following question to a panel of 19 of the most respected authorities on “black baseball,” a term that encompasses baseball before Rube Foster founded the Negro Leagues in 1920: Who were the top five black pitchers prior to the integration of the Major Leagues? Based on a compilation of their rankings, the countdown toward No. 1 begins Tuesday. Today, we start with a preview of the series.
Voting panel
| Bob Kendrick: Former marketing director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and an authority of black baseball. |
| Raymond Doswell: Interim president of the museum, a historian with a PhD and a member of the Hall of Fame/MLB panel that picked Negro League players for induction into Cooperstown in 2006. |
| Don Motley: Co-founder and former executive director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, long-time youth baseball coach in Kansas City area. |
| Larry Lester: Author, historian, SABR member and a member of the Hall of Fame/MLB panel that picked Negro League players for induction into Cooperstown in 2006. |
| Dick Clark: Author, historian, SABR member and a member of the Hall of Fame/MLB panel that picked Negro League players for induction into Cooperstown in 2006. |
| Robert Ruck: Senior lecturer in history at Pitt, author and a member of the Hall of Fame/MLB panel that picked Negro League players for induction into Cooperstown in 2006. |
| Leslie Heaphy: History professor at Kent State, author, SABR member and a member of the Hall of Fame/MLB panel that picked Negro League players for induction into Cooperstown in 2006. |
| Brian Carroll: History professor at Berry College, SABR member and an authority of black baseball. |
| John Overmyer: SABR member, author and a member of the Hall of Fame/MLB panel that picked Negro League players for induction into Cooperstown in 2006. |
| James A. Riley: Author of Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Leagues (seminal work in this area) and authority on black baseball. |
| Phil S. Dixon: Author and an authority on black baseball. |
| John Thorn: Author, SABR member and an authority on black baseball. |
| Isaac Brooks: SABR member and an active member of the Jerry Malloy Negro Leagues Conference. |
| John Klima: Journalist and baseball authority. |
| Craig Tomarkin: SABR member, baseball statistician and an expert on black baseball. |
| Paul E. Doutrich: History professor at York College, SABR member and an expert on baseball. |
| Chris Murray: Sportswriter with an expertise in black baseball |
| Chuck Johnson: Writes a column for MLB.com. |
| Charles Alexander: History professor emeritus, SABR member and an authority on baseball. |
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I am looking for info on a player Mike Pride/Max Pride, Charley Pride Brother
iv always been a fan of this history.because of the hardship and history of players that played better than any (white)player in any team in the history of baseball.once i had the pleasure to meet a player when i was in new york a few years ago and was very honored to say to him that he is my hero.i wish a movie director would make the best film about these almost forgotten players.we have pro ball players of all types,only if we could put all of them together and make a great film of these players it would make black people more proud of baseball. thanks!!!!
My father, Theodore David Meyers, was a player with the Negro Leagues, I have heard his stories and seen old pictures, he passed away in 1988, was born in St. Louis\, Mo, not sure if he was with KC Monarchs or ? If you have any information, video, pix, please send to my email. Thanks & God bless