Pearl Webster
Pearl Webster | |||
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Catcher/First baseman | |||
Born: Wayland, Missouri | July 8, 1889|||
Died: September 16, 1918 29) France | (aged|||
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Negro league baseball debut | |||
1913, for the Brooklyn Royal Giants | |||
Last appearance | |||
1918, for the Bacharach Giants | |||
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Pearl F. "Specks" Webster (July 8, 1889 – November 16, 1918) was an American baseball catcher and first baseman in the Negro Leagues. He played from 1914 to 1918 with several teams.[4]
In 1918, while playing for the Hilldale Club, Webster was drafted into the Army in Class 1-A.[5]
He died of the Spanish flu pandemic while serving in the United States Army during World War I.
34 years after his death, Webster received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.[6]
References
- ↑ "Brooklyn Giants Win" The Washington Herald, Washington, DC, Thursday, May 8, 1913, Page 8, Column 3
- ↑ "Palm Beach Weekly Review" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, February 19, 1916, Page 5, Columns 5 to 7
- ↑ "Hilldale Again" Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, June 30, 1918, Page 20, Column 2
- ↑ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
- ↑ "Santop, Williams and Tom Williams" Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, July 17, 1918, Page 11, Column 3
- ↑ "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"
External links
- Negro league baseball statistics and player information from Seamheads.com, or Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)
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