Our 'Baseballer of the Week'
for this week
goes to:
the Big Black Guy, 6-0, 200 who was the f
irst Black ballplayer to hit a home run in the
American League, but after 21 games he
decided not to take the constant racial abuse
and left to excel in the Puerto Rico Winter
League, where he won two 'Triple Crown'
Awards, then he played with the Big Black
League, plus he was the fourth Big Black Player
signed to the MLB in 1947 after Jackie
Robinson, Larry Doby, and Hank Thompson
(who was his teammate on the St. Louis Browns,
the first time two Big Blacks were on the
same MLB team), were drafted, also he led
the Big Black American League Monarchs
in hits for eight seasons (1937–39, 1941–43,
1946, 1948), tying Ty Cobb, and runs batted in
(RBI) seven times during his career, tied with
Big Black Josh Gibson (he and Gibson also
finished in the top two in batting average
in five seasons each, the most
in Big Black League history,
along with other mighty achievements,
and we give flowers an say the name of...
...Willard 'Willie Home Run' Jessie Brown!
Black Baseball History Month,
celebrated in march of every year, 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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