Our 'Baseballer of the Week'
for this week
goes to:
The Big Black Guy, 5-9, 174, who had an
exceptionally-strong throwing arm, so
you know that his primary position was
at the 'hot corner' third base, and he and
Willard Brown were the first two Beautiful
Black men to appear in the same starting
lineup, and he was the first Beautiful Black
Player to play in the AL and the NL on
two separate teams, and, with Willie Mays
and Monte Irvin, he was part of an All
Beautiful Black outfield in the 1951 World
Series, plus he was the 3rd player
contracted after the horrible segregation period,
he and batted left and threw right, and, amazingly,
he hit at least three inside-the-park home runs,
and we give flowers and say the name of...
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...Hank Thompson!
Black Baseball History Month was
founded by Ralph 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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