On December 9th 1930, Andrew "Rube" Foster joined the ancestors (Sept 17, 1879 - Dec 9, 1930). AKA the “Father of Black Baseball”, player, manager, executive in the Negro Leagues. considered the best Black pitcher of the 1st decade of the 1900s, elected to the Baseball HOF in 1981.
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"Rube Foster, "Father of Black Baseball."." Historianspeaks, December 10, 2025. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/rube-foster-father-of-black-baseball.
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