Homestead Grays all-time roster

The following is the list of players on the Homestead Grays all-time roster. These are Homestead Grays players who appeared in at least one game for the Grays, while they were based in either Homestead, Pennsylvania, or Washington, D.C., from 1912 to 1950.

On-going research continuously discovers unreported or misreported games (and the affected players), while some games and players may be lost forever. Therefore, some Negro league players' affiliations will likely remain incomplete and possibly disputed.

A–D PlayerYear(S)Position(s)RefTed Alexander1948PClifford Allen1937PHap Allen1922SSNewt Allen19322BBill Anderson1943PRoland Anderson1944PJabbo Andrews1932, 1934OFEarl Ashby1947CSam Bankhead1939, 1942–1948SSLeroy Bass1940CPepper Bassett1936CRay Battle1944–19453BJohn Beckwith1926–1929, 1935IF / CCool Papa Bell‡1932, 1943–1946OFLefty Bell1948PWilliam Bell1932P / OFJerry Benjamin1935–1947OFJimmy Binder1933–19373BGarnett Blair1942, 1944–1945, 1948PLonnie Blair1947–1950Fred Blaylock1945PFox Blevins19363BBob Boston1948OFSlim Branham1924PGeorge Britt1926–1933, 1940P / C / 3BAmeal Brooks1933, 1941CBud Brown1918, 1921–1922OFScrappy Brown1924SSRay Brown‡1932–1945P / OFClarence Bruce1947–19482BBuddy Burbage1934–1935OFWalter Burch19363BTex Burnett1931, 1934CEd Butler1945SSBenito Calderón1928CEmmet Campbell1918, 19211BWalter Cannady1922, 1924, 1927–1929, 1932, 19442B / 3BMatt Carlisle1935–1938, 1940–19462BSpoon Carter1942–1945POscar Charleston‡1926, 1929–19311BThad Christopher1943OFBuster Clarkson1942SSLuther Clifford1948CAnthony Cooper1932OFDarltie Cooper1930PJimmie Crutchfield1932PRay Dandridge‡19373BBabe Davis1939OFJim Davis19453BPiper Davis19441BLeon Day‡1937, 1942PBobby Dean19292BLou Dials1932OFMartín Dihigo‡1927–1928SS / 2BDizzy Dismukes1924PRap Dixon1936OFMahlon Duckett1949–1950IFEddie Ducy19472BTommie Dukes1935–1939CLouis Dula1933–1938PWilliam Dumpson1949

E–K PlayerYear(S)Position(s)RefLuke Easter1947–1948OFHoward Easterling1940–1943, 19463B / 2B / OFMack Eggleston1932CRocky Ellis1940PBill Evans1930–1933OF / SSClarence Evans1948–1949PBuck Ewing1928–1930CWillie Ferrell1939–1940PWilmer Fields1940–1941, 1946–1950P / 3B / OFHooks Foreman1924CBill Foster‡1931PErvin Fowlkes1948SSJelly Gardner1928OFCharles Gary1948–19503BRobert Gaston1932–1933, 1935, 1939–1945, 1947–1949CJerry Gibson1934PJosh Gibson‡1930–1931, 1937–1940, 1942–1946CJosh Gibson Jr.1949–19503B / 2BDennis Gilchrist1934–1935SSGeorge Giles19321BGeorge Gill19331BWillie Gisentaner1934–1936PErnest Gooden1921SSDennis Graham1924–1930OFWillie Gray1924–1927OFJoe Greene1936C[Harold Hairston1946–1947PSell Hall1918, 1921PJ. C. Hamilton1940–1942PLeo Hannibal1938PMo Harris1918, 1921–1922, 1925–19292BVic Harris1925–1933, 1935–1945, 1947OFWin Harris1918, 1921–1922, 19241BEarl Harrison1929PBuddy Hayes1922—Curtis Henderson1936SSAlonzo Hicks1947OFJimmy Hicks1940PDave Hoskins1944–1946OFCharley House19453BJesse Houston1941PWillie Hubert1944PCharlie Hughes19332BBertrum Hunter1932PClarence Isreal1946–19473BBozo Jackson19452BNorman Jackson1935–1940, 1944–1945SS / 2BHorace Jarnigan1934OFSonny Boy Jeffries1940PCharlie Jemison1932, 1934PClaude Johnson19242BJack Johnson19383BJohnny A. Johnson1944PJosh Johnson1934CJudy Johnson‡1929–19303BBenny Jones1931OFEugene Jones1943PCecil Kaiser1946–1947PLarry Kimbrough1949–1950Dolly King1944OFWilbert King19472B

L–R PlayerYear(S)Position(s)RefObie Lackey1929, 1938SS / 3BRaymon Lacy1947—Bobo Leonard1928OFBuck Leonard‡1934–19501BClarence Lewis1933SSGrover Lewis19283BJohn Lyles19342BBill Lynn1943PBiz Mackey‡1927C / 3BZiggy Marcell1940CLuis Márquez1946–1948OFForrest Mashaw1921–1922OFCharlie Mason1929OFLeroy Matlock1932PGeorge McAllister19331BWebster McDonald1928–1929PTerris McDuffie1937, 1941PLefty Mellix1935, 1942PBub Miller19383BEddie Miller1929SS / 2BWillis Moody1922, 1924–1925, 1929OFLeroy Morney19332B / SSEudie Napier1939, 1941, 1946–1948COscar Owens1921–1922, 1924–1931OF / PBrother Pace1921CTed Page1931OFSatchel Paige‡1931PClarence Palm1932, 1934, 1941CTom Parker1935–1939, 1948OF / PRoy Partlow1938–1939, 1941–1943PPat Patterson19342BTom Payne1933OFMaurice Peatros19471BJavier Pérez19373BBill Perkins1932CAlonzo Perry1946PWalter Perry1940CMoses Phillips19461BDave Pope1946OFWillie Pope1947PCumberland Posey‡1918, 1921–1922OFTed Radcliffe1931, 1936, 1946C / PWilliam Randall1943OFAmbrose Reid1931OFBill Riggins19273BEd Rile1924PSpecs Roberts1938–1940PRags Roberts1928CNeil Robinson1934OFWilliam Ross1929–1930POrmsby Roy1929, 1932OF / SSAaron Russell19183BJohn Henry Russell19342BRed Ryan1927P

S–Z PlayerYear(S)Position(s)RefHarry Salmon1932–1935PJoe Scott19331BCharlie Shields1943PCleo Smith19263BDark Night Smith1924OFErnie Smith1940OFGene Smith1946–1947PWillie Smith1948PSylvester Snead19383BVictoriano Sosa1948CHenry Spearman1936, 1938–19393BJoe Spencer1943–19442BJohnny Spencer1921OFJake Stephens1929–1932SSWillie Stevenson1940, 1943PFrank Stewart1935PSam Streeter1926, 1928–1929PJoe Strong1929, 1932–1937P / OFLeRoy Taylor1932OFTarcat Terry1932–1933, 19362BClint Thomas1929OFFrank Thompson1946–1948PBob Thurman1946–1948OFJames Tillman1941–1942Ted Trent1932PBob Trice1948–1950PQuincy Trouppe1932CPop Turner19293BWyatt Turner1939CColumbus Vance1932PJohn Veney1918CArnold Waites1936–1937PEdsall Walker1936–1945PGeorge Walker1937PLaudie Walker1921–1922, 19243BR. T. Walker1945–1949PChief Walton1921SSCiscero Warren1946–1947PJasper Washington1921–1922, 1924–1929, 1931–19331BWillie Wells‡1932, 1937SSRoy Welmaker1936–1939, 1942, 1944–1945POllie West1943PDavid Whatley1939–1942, 1944OFChaney White1930OFEddie White1944PBobby Williams1926–1927SSCharles Williams1921–1922, 1924, 1926–1935PChester Williams1932–1933, 1941–1942SSElbert Williams1929PFrank Williams1942–1943, 1946OFGerard Williams1925SSHarry Williams1932, 1934, 1939SS / 3BJim Williams1933–1934, 1937–1939OFPoindexter Williams1933CRoy Williams1931, 1935PSmokey Joe Williams‡1925–1932PDan Wilson1941, 19463B / OFJud Wilson‡1931–1932, 1940–19453BNip Winters1928PJohnny Wright1941–1945, 1947PRalph Wyatt1943SSEd Young19471BLeroy Young1946SSTom Young1932CWilliam Pennington Young1921–1922, 1924, 1927C

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