Willie Grace
Appearance
Willie Grace | |
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Outfielder/Pitcher | |
Born: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. | June 30, 1917|
Died: November 18, 2006 Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 89)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
Negro league baseball debut | |
1943, for the Cleveland Buckeyes | |
Last appearance | |
1948, for the Cleveland Buckeyes | |
Teams | |
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William Grace (June 30, 1917 – November 18, 2006) was an American Negro league baseball outfielder and pitcher. He played from 1943 to 1948 with the Cleveland Buckeyes.[1] He also played for the Erie Sailors of the Middle Atlantic League in 1951.
References
[edit]- ^ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors) and Seamheads
- Negro League Baseball Players Association page
Categories:
- 1917 births
- 2006 deaths
- Cleveland Buckeyes players
- Erie Sailors players
- Baseball players from Tennessee
- Baseball players from Memphis, Tennessee
- Baseball outfielders
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople
- 21st-century African-American sportspeople
- American baseball outfielder, 1910s birth stubs
- Negro league baseball outfielder stubs