With it being football season, I thought I’d feature some stories about former pigskin pros who also starred in baseball during their college years. And what better place to start than with the very first African-American to play for pay.…
Category: Black Pioneers of College Baseball
Condredge Holloway (Tennessee) – Vols’ First Black Ballplayer
Condredge Holloway was known as the “Artful Dodger” in college at the University of Tennessee, but he’s one Dodger who chose a career in professional football instead of baseball. A man who has earned more than his share…
Charles Thomas (Ohio Wesleyan) – Inspiration to Branch Rickey
The plight of Charles Thomas, Ohio Wesleyan University’s baseball and football star of the early 1900s is well documented. His story is known not only in the local Delaware, Ohio community, but nationally as well. Thomas, the lone black ballplayer…