Our 'Baseballer of the Week'
for this week
goes to:
The Big Black Guy, 5-10, 162, who was the
15th Big Black Man to contract with a team
after the embarrassing 'No Blacks in Baseball'
era, and he had a season batting average of
a whopping .437 in 1948 with the Birmingham
Black Barons, which made him the season
batting champ in the brutally-competitive,
Big and Beautiful Negro Leagues, also making
him the last player in that League to do so,
and where he was a 7x NL All-Star Gamer, plus
his strategic swing was to mainly get on
base, rather than swing for the fences, leaving
him with zero Career Home Runs, so he
batted left and threw right, and he was first
to be a full-time Big Black Player to join an
all-white team in the Pacific Coast League,
and had a chance to mentor Willie Mays,
and we give flowers and say the name of...
...Artie Wilson!
Black Baseball History Month was
founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.
in 2025 to commemorate, place value,
and get to know, our Heroes, while
standing and cheering for, the many
International Black Men who 'Shocked
and Awed' us with too many to count,
fantastic and unexpected physical
heroics at the Ballpark, in exciting
efforts for their teams to cross home
plate more than their opponents to win.
The Founder of Black Baseball History Month,
Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.,
and elucidator of elatus labialis wingeulus.
If you know a Baseballer who should be included here,
please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!
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