Sammy T. Hughes: The Problem with The Hall
While other players of arguably lesser talent have their mugs preserved in bronze and hanging on a wall in The Hall, Sammy T. remains unrecognized, obscure, and, worst of all, forgotten… […]
Category: Baltimore Elite Giants
Lefty Glover: Requiem for a Southpaw
This is not your typical biography, but the story of my three-decade quest to uncover and document the life and career of a little-known Negro League ballplayer who may or may not have been named Lefty Glover. […]
Wild Bill Wright: A Most Complete Ballplayer
Wild Bill Wright’s contemporaries called him the Negro League’s “most complete ball player.” Built like an NFL linebacker, the 6’-6” outfielder had blinding speed on the base paths, fielded with grace and was a line-drive hitting machine. […]
Sammy T. Hughes: The Problem with the Hall of Fame
The biggest problem with the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is that Sammy T. Hughes isn’t in it. Throughout the 1930’s and 40’s, Hughes was the best second baseman in the Negro Leagues, and his solid hitting and expert baserunning skills made him the complete ballplayer. […]
Roy Campanella: Race, opportunity and the 1942 pennant
THREE DECADES AGO, when I was an art student in Baltimore, I had become interested in the city’s Negro League team, the Elite Giants. I had the good fortune to meet many former Elite Giants players as well as the fans who rooted for them. The Elites (pronounced EE-lights) became my favorite Negro League […]