Dave Barnhill
Appearance
Dave Barnhill | |
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Pitcher | |
Born: Greenville, North Carolina, US | October 30, 1914|
Died: January 8, 1983 Miami, Florida, US | (aged 68)|
Batted: Both[1] Threw: Right | |
Negro league baseball debut | |
1937, for the Zulu Giants | |
Last appearance | |
1949, for the New York Cubans | |
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David Barnhill (October 30, 1914 – January 8, 1983)[2][a] was an American Negro league baseball pitcher. Barnhill played from 1937 to 1949, mostly with the New York Cubans.[2] He also played for the New York Giants in the minor leagues from 1949 to 1953, in the American Association and the Florida International League.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Low, Nat. "He May Be on Pirates After August Fourth". The New York Daily Worker. July 26, 1942. p. 8. Retrieved August 1, 2021. "A switch hitter, the Negro star really belts the ball when swinging from the right-hand side of the plate."
- ^ a b Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
- ^ "David Barnhill: Florida Death Index, 1877-1998". FamilySearch.
Further reading
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- Riley, James A. (2014). Of Monarchs and Black Barons: Essays on Baseball's Negro Leagues. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. pp 170–174. ISBN 978-0-7864-6542-2.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors) and Seamheads
- Negro League Baseball Players Association page
Categories:
- 1914 births
- 1983 deaths
- Ethiopian Clowns players
- New York Cubans players
- Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players
- Miami Beach Flamingos players
- Fort Lauderdale Lions players
- Baseball players from North Carolina
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople
- Baseball pitchers
- Sportspeople from Greenville, North Carolina
- American baseball pitcher, 1910s births stubs
- Negro league baseball pitcher stubs