Joe Black
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1924 – 2002
Who was Joe Black?
Joseph Black was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro League and Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, and Washington Senators who became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, in 1952. Black died of prostate cancer at age 78.
A native of Plainfield, New Jersey, he starred at Plainfield High School. Black attended on a baseball scholarship and graduated from Morgan State University in 1950 and later received an honorary doctorate from Shaw University. He was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He appears prominently in Roger Kahn's classic book, The Boys of Summer.
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1924
Plainfield - Also known as
- Gentleman Joe or Jake
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Morgan State University
- Lived in
- Plainfield
- Died
- May 17, 2002
Scottsdale
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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