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Effa Manley Region - Filling the Void - Negro League Tournament - Round 1
While we may not have March Madness or even baseball for now, we can still have fun with a tournament of great Negro League players in our 64 player tournament
Today we feature the first round of the Effa Manley Region
1 - Oscar Charleston vs. 64 - Connie Morgan
Oscar Charleston career highlights:
Lifetime .339 batting average, .326 in exhibition games vs. MLB players
3x All-Star
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (1976)
Connie Morgan career highlights:
Morgan replaced the first woman in the league Toni Stone in the Indianapolis Clowns in 1954. Morgan played with the team for two years.
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
32 - Andy Cooper vs. 33 - Dick Lundy
Andy Cooper career highlights:
Career 116-57 record with a 3.24 ERA
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (2006)
Dick Lundy career highlights:
Negro League batting average: .305
Cuban Winter League: .341
Major League exhibition play: .344
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
17 - Judy Johnson vs. 48 - Chet Brewer
Judy Johnson career highlights:
2× All-Star selection (1933, 1936)
Negro World Series champion (1925)
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (1975)
Chet Brewer career highlights:
17-3 and 31 consecutive scoreless innings in league play in 1929
Credited with winning 30 games in 1930, 34 in 1933, and 33 in 1934
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
16 - Mule Suttles vs. 49 - Ted Page
Mule Suttles career highlights:
5x All-Star
Hit .329 with 129 home runs in Negro League competition, the latter number second on the all-time list in Negro League play.
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (2006)
Ted Page career highlights:
A lifetime .335 hitter
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
9 - Willie Wells vs. 56 - Slim Jones
Willie Wells career highlights:
10× All-Star
2× Cuban League MVP Award
Negro National League record for most home runs in a season, 27 in 1926.
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (1997)
Slim Jones career highlights:
Win–loss record - 107-55
Earned run average - 3.17
Strikeouts - 620
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
24 - "Cannonball" Dick Redding vs. 41 - Rap Dixon
"Cannonball" Dick Redding career highlights:
.667 Career Winning Percentage
Thought to be the fastest pitcher in the history of the league
Rap Dixon career highlights:
Signed at the age of fourteen.
Played with Oscar Charleston, and Fats Jenkins and scored more runs than the 1927 New York Yankees.
Discovered Hall of Famer Leon Day.
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
25 - Louis Santop vs. 40 Newt Allen
Louis Santop career highlights:
.406 lifetime hitter
After the war, he was the league's biggest drawing card and received $500 a month
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (2006)
Newt Allen career highlights:
In 1929 batted .330 while hitting 24 doubles and stealing 23 bases
Second team of a 1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of the Greatest Black Players
Career - .293 career batting average, 16 home runs, 640 games.
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
8 - Martin Dihigo vs. 57. Buck O'Neil
Martin Dihigo career highlights:
4× Cuban League MVP
Elected to Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame
Elected to Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (1977)
Buck O'Neil career highlights:
288 career average, including four .300-plus seasons
Led NAL with a .353 in 1946
MLB's first African American Scout
Credited for signing Hall of Fame player Lou Brock
Led the effort to establish the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM)
COMMENT TO VOTE BELOW
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