String Bean Williams
Appearance
String Bean Williams | |
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Pitcher / Manager | |
Born: 1873 Cairo, Illinois[1] | |
Died: Bronx, New York | October 28, 1929|
Batted: Unknown Threw: Right | |
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Andrew Williams (1873 – October 28, 1929), nicknamed "String Bean", was a Negro leagues pitcher and manager, playing for many teams, including the Indianapolis ABCs and the Brooklyn Royal Giants.
At age 50 in 1923, Williams made his major league debut for the Brooklyn Royal Giants; to this day, this makes him the oldest debutant in major league history. By 1926, in Williams later years, one paper appears to list Williams as a submarine pitcher.[4]
Williams received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sprudels Close Season" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, IN, September 25, 1909, Page 7, Columns 3 and 4
- ^ "Take One From Sprudels" Loogootee Sentinel, Loogootee, IN, Tuesday, August 22, 1911, Page 1, Column 1 and 2
- ^ "Barnard Hurls Blues to 17th Win of Season" Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, IL, Monday, September 20, 1926, Page 6, Column 1 and 2
- ^ "Colored Team to Play Blues at Sportsmans" Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, IL, Saturday, September 18, 1926, Page 6, Column 6"
- ^ "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
Categories:
- Negro league baseball managers
- Bacharach Giants players
- Brooklyn Royal Giants players
- Chicago American Giants players
- Dayton Marcos players
- Indianapolis ABCs players
- Louisville White Sox (1914–1915) players
- Pennsylvania Red Caps of New York players
- St. Louis Giants players
- Washington Potomacs players
- West Baden Sprudels players
- San Francisco Park players
- Baseball players from Cairo, Illinois
- 1873 births
- 1929 deaths
- American expatriate baseball players in Cuba
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople