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Black History ➔ Autographed Reprint, Ted Radcliffe, Negro Baseball Leagues Archival Collection #113
Identifier:
2002.43.1Description:
Reprint photo of Ted Radcliffe with original autograph, wearing the uniform of the Birmingham Black Barons, for which he pitched from 1943-45. Ted Radcliffe was a significant player for many teams during the heydays of Negro League baseball. Note image restrictions.Date:
circa 1944Materials:
PaperDimensions:
1" h 8" wCurrent Location Status:
In StorageCollection Tier:
Tier 2Source:
Gift Of Claire HellsternRelated Entities:
Ted Radcliffe (creator)Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe was a pitcher, catcher and later a manager in the Negro Leagues baseball from Mobile, Alabama. He was a skilled pitcher and an excellent batter with an estimated .303 batting average. He had a long and successful career playing for fifteen baseball teams and managing three. Hellstern, Claire (donor) Negro League Baseball (is related to)
Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed "Negro Major Leagues".
In the late 19th century the baseball color line developed in professional baseball, excluding African Americans from league play. In 1885, the Cuban Giants formed the first black professional baseball team. The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance. After several decades of mostly independent play by a variety of teams, in 1920 the first Negro National League was formed and ultimately seven major leagues existed at various times over the next thirty years. After integration, the quality of the Negro leagues slowly deteriorated and the Negro American League of 1951 is generally considered the last major league season. The last professional club, the Indianapolis Clowns, operated as a humorous sideshow rather than competitively from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. (Source: Wikipedia)
