Sir Lurksalot photopack (Negro League players)

[Cusick]

Pelayo Chacon, Jr. was a third baseman with the Stars of Cuba in 1930, according to seamheads.com. They can trace their finding back to a box score which indicates that Pelayo Chacon and Pelayo Chacon, Jr. played in the same game for the Stars of Cuba in 1930. The photo is from the beisbolinmortal.blogspot.com website and shows Pelayo Chacon Jr. in 1951. Pelayo Chacon Jr. was born in 1933, and is the brother of Elio Chacon, who played in the major leagues in the 1950's. It does not make sense that Pelayo Chacon Jr. would have played a game in the Negro Leagues in 1930. There is speculation that Pelayo Chacon Sr. fathered another son by a woman other than his wife who bore Pelayo Chacon Jr. and Elio Chacon, and that other son was the one known as "Chacon Jr." in the box score of the Stars of Cuba game. But this has not been nailed down, so the Negro League players are still carried in the books as Pelayo Chacon Sr. and Jr.

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Ralph "Pete" Cleage was an outfielder with the St. Louis Stars in 1924. The photo is from the following website, which contains a biography of Cleage:

http://findingeliza.com/archives/19700

The caption below the photo misspells his surname.

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Luther "Shanty" Clifford was a catcher for the Homestead Grays and Kansas City Monarchs during the 1948-1950 period. The photo shows him in the uniform of the Brantford (Canada) Red Sox. It is from the attheplate.com website. Credit to Rich Bogovich, who penned the excellent biography of Luther Clifford for SABR's BioProject, for tipping me off to the location of the photo.

[Cusick]

Monchile Concepcion was an outfielder with the Stars of Cuba, Cuban Stars East, and Bacharach Giants during the years 1931 and 1934. The photo is from the seamheads.com website. The uniform appears to be from Santurce, Puerto Rico.

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Jimmy Weedon was an outfielder with the Harrisburg (PA) Giants in the mid-1950's. The photo is from the lancasteronline.com website.

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Willie Fordham was a pitcher with the Harrisburg (PA) Giants in 1954 and 1955. He also pitched for the minor league Harrisburg Senators in 1952. The photo is from his on-line obituary. He died on Aug. 25, 2010 at age 83.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by Cusick

Pelayo Chacon, Jr. was a third baseman with the Stars of Cuba in 1930. The photo is from the beisbolinmortal.blogspot.com website.

Any type of relations to ELIO Chacon?

[Cusick]

Ramon Couto was a catcher for the New York Cubans for one game in 1935. The photo is from the book [I]Professional Baseball in North Carolina[I], by J. Chris Holaday. It shows Couto with the Lexington Indians of the North Carolina State League.

P.S. Turns out that this is just another minor league photo of Couto. I had previously posted one of him on this thread, showing him with the Portsmouth Cubs. My error in duplicating this player.

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com

Any type of relations to ELIO Chacon?

Yes. Pelayo Chacon, Jr. is the brother of Elio Chacon. Their father, Pelayo Chacon, Sr., like junior, played in the Negro Leagues. His photo was posted at the bottom of the following page:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...=199642&page=7

[Cusick]

Marzellous "Alphonso" or "M.D." Cox was a pitcher with the Lincoln Giants (1930), Jacksonville Red Caps (1938), and Philadelphia Stars (1945). The record provided for him by seamheads.com represents a merger of records for two pitchers previously identified by other sources -- M. C. "Bob" Cox and M. D. "Alphonse" Cox. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

[Cusick]

Cecil Cole was a pitcher with the 1946 Newark Eagles. A photo of him with the Eagles was posted previously on this thread. Rich Bogovich, who has written a biography of Cole for the forthcoming SABR book on the 1946 Eagles, considers the photo below to be the best picture he knows of Cole. It comes from the book Around Connellsville by Paul E. Eckman and Karen Hechler.

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"Specs" Davidson was a pitcher with the Baltimore Elite Giants in 1940 and with the New York Black Yankees from 1946 through 1948. The newspapers gave him various nicknames in addition to "Specs." He was also referred to as Curley, Charlie, and Charley. The two images below obviously came from the same team photo. The one on the left was from a website called deadballbaseball.com. The one on the right was credited to Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images.

[Cusick]

John Barton "Johnny" Davis was a pitcher with numerous Negro League teams from 1902 through 1915. Some examples include the Chicago Columbia Giants, Chicago Leland Giants, Chicago Union Giants, and Cuban Stars West. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

[Cusick]

Leon Diggs played for the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953. One source says he was an outfielder. The photo is from the Marshfield (WI) News-Herald of June 10, 1953. That source says he played 2B for the Clowns and for the Memphis Red Sox. He appears to be pictured in the uniform of the Pittsburgh Crawfords. Another player whose photo is presented on the same page, Harold Johnson, was a former member of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, and is shown in the same uniform. The two were currently playing for the New York Harlem Yankees.

Leon Diggs was the nephew of Bunny Downs, well-known Negro Leagues player and manager of the Indianapolis Clowns.

[Cusick]

"Sy" or "Cy" Morton was a shortstop and second baseman for the Philadelphia Stars, Newark Eagles, Pittsburgh Crawfords, and Chicago American Giants during the 1940's and 1950's. His photo has been previously posted on this thread, but in an unidentified uniform. Here, he is shown in a Pittsburgh Crawfords uniform The photo is from the Tampa Bay (FL) Times of April 15, 1953.

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Harold "Dynamite" Johnson was a second baseman on the 1953 Pittsburgh Crawfords. He played shortstop on some barnstorming teams which were offshoots of the Negro Leagues. The photo is from the Marshfield (WI) News-Herald of June 10, 1953, and shows him in the Crawfords' uniform.

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Arlington Henderson was a catcher with the 1953 Pittsburgh Crawfords. He is shown here with the Rosetown Phillies of the Saskatchewan semi-pro league. The photo is from the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix of May 17, 1954.

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Like his father and grandfather of the same name, Frank Duncan III also played in the Negro Leagues, but for a shorter stint. Frank III was a pitcher with the Kansas City Monarchs for one game in 1941 and with the Baltimore Elite Giants for six games in 1945. The photo on the left is from the seamheads.com website. The photo on the right is from a team photo of the 1940 Monarchs and shows Frank III when he was still a batboy for the team. He made his playing debut at age 21 the next year.

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Red Ellis was a pitcher with the Philadelphia Bacharach Giants in 1932. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.

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Crescencio Ferrer was a catcher with the 1915 Havana Reds. The photo is from the seamheads.com website.