Chicago American Giants all-time roster

The following is the list of players on the Chicago American Giants all-time roster. These are Chicago American Giants players who appeared in at least one game for the American Giants from 1910 to 1956.

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–B PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefTed Alexander1941PLewis Anderson1930CJabbo Andrews1930, 1942OFBuddy Armour1947OFRudolph Ash1920OFPercy Bailey1934PJesse Barber1911–1919OF / 1BHerb Barnhill1944–1946CPepper Bassett1939, 1941CHarry Bauchman1915–19162BHank Baylis19483BJohn Beckwith1922–19233B / 1BCool Papa Bell‡1929, 1942OFSam Bennett1914OFCleo Benson1942CJunius Bibbs1938, 19442BDennis Biddle1953–1954John Bissant1939, 1942–1947OFCliff Blackmon1937PTed Bond1937, 19403BPete Booker1913–1914COscar Boone1941CLyman Bostock Sr.19471BRandolph Bowe1939–1940PEddie Boyd1920OFBill Bradford19412BSlim Branham1923PJames Bray1925–1928, 1930–1931CClarkson Brazelton1916CChet Brewer1946PJesse Briscoe1914OFGeorge Britt1917, 1942C / PJohn Britton19423BAmeal Brooks1929, 1932CDave Brown1919–1922PJim Brown1919–1933, 1935, 1937C / 1BLarry Brown1927, 1929, 1933–1935COssie Brown1935PT. J. Brown1944SSUlysses Brown1940CLloyd Bruce1940PEarl Bumpus1947–1948P / 1B / OFWillie Burns1942PHerbert Buster19432BSubby Byas1932, 1935–1939, 1942C / 1B / OF

C–D PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefWalter Cannady19422BMarlin Carter19483BOscar Charleston‡1919OFBill Charter1943, 1945–1946IF / CLou Clarizio1950Albert Clark1930OFZack Clayton1935, 19371BAndy Cooper‡1937PChamp Cooper19141BWillie Cornelius1933–1943, 1945–1946PRoosevelt Cox19373BNorman Cross1932–1933, 1936–1937PJimmie Crutchfield1941–1942, 1944–1945OFRube Curry1926–1927PGeorge Dandy1912PPepper Daniels1931CLloyd Davenport1943–1944OFBunch Davis1911SSLeland Davis1938PRosey Davis1929PSaul Davis1929–19302B / SSSteel Arm Davis1927–1930, 1932–1933, 1935OF / 1BJohnnie Dawson1940CBingo DeMoss1913–1914, 1917–19252BKermit Dial19322BLou Dials1927, 1938OFGeorge Dixon1917–1922, 1924–1925CRap Dixon1930OFSteven Dixon1916PCharles Dougherty1911–1914PJesse Douglas1944–19452B / SS / 3BAndy Drake1932–1933CErnest Duff1925—Tommie Dukes1928, 1945CFrank Duncan1911–1918OFHerman Dunlap1936–1938OFJoe Durham1952

E–G PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefHoward Easterling1938OFJean Ellison1915CHarry Else1940CRed Horse Etheridge1911PBill Evans1924OFUlysses Evans1942PBuck Ewing1920CBuck Felder19442BJosé María Fernández1930CWillie Ferrell1941–1943P / OFCoco Ferrer1951SSJames Field1918PJoe Fleet1930PJimmy Ford19422BPercy Forrest1938–1939PBill Foster‡1923–1930, 1932–1935, 1937PRube Foster‡1911–1917PBill Francis1914–1919, 19253BJudy Gans1914–1916, 1918–1920OFJelly Gardner1920–1926, 1928–1930OFBill Gatewood1912–1913, 1915PFred Goliah19112BHerbert Gay1929PWillie Gay1929OFJohnny George1922SSAlphonso Gerard1948OFTed Gipson19413BArthur Gilliard1914PPen Gilliard1938OFMurray Gillispie1930PLuther Gilyard1937–19391BWillie Gisentaner1921PButch Glass1930PLeroy Grant1911, 1916–19241BWillie Green19153BRobert Griffin1931PEarl Gurley1925, 1927OF

H–K PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefRed Hale1939SSRed Haley1928IFSell Hall1917PCharlie Hancock1928CPaul Hardy1937–1938CGeorge Harney1923–1931PBen Harris1921PCharlie Harris19433BVic Harris1924OFRufus Hatten1944CLemuel Hawkins19281BBuddy Hayes1916CBun Hayes1930PCurtis Henderson19413BLogan Hensley1939PJoe Hewitt19242BCharley Hill1912, 1914PPete Hill‡1911–1918OFSam Hill1946–1948OFJohn Hines1924–1930, 1932, 1934OF / CBill Holland1921PFrog Holsey1928–1931PBilly Horne1938–19412BBill Hoskins1937OFJesse Houston1938–1939PHerman Howard1946PJohn Huber1942CWillie Hudson1940–1942OF / PJohnny Hundley1946CFred Hutchinson1911, 1913, 1915SSSam Jackson1944–19451BSanford Jackson1926–1931, 1936OF / SS / 3BTice James1936, 1941SSHarry Jeffries1922, 1929–19313BHorace Jenkins1914–1915OF / PGentry Jessup1941–1948PCharles Johnson1933–1941Dicta Johnson1912–1913, 1923PJohn Wesley Johnson1930PLeonard Johnson1947PTom Johnson1913–1917, 1919–1921PTommy Johnson1938–1940, 1942PAl Jones1944PRuben Jones1928OFWill Jones1915CDan Kennard1914CHarry Kenyon1923OFBill Kindle19132BWilbert King1945–19462BDave Knight1930PFloyd Kranson1937P

L–M PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefWilbert Labeaux19362BBill Lane1911SSBobo Leonard1924OFJoe Lillard1932–1934, 1937OF / PBill Lindsay1911–1914OF / PJohn Henry Lloyd‡1914–1917SSClarence Locke1945–1948PLester Lockett1939, 19422BHubert Lockhart1929PBarney Longest1946–19472BJimmie Lyons1921–1924, 1932OFDave Malarcher1920–1928, 1931–19343BZiggy Marcell1942CJack Marshall1920–1921, 1923, 1929PJack Marshall1931–19382BVerdell Mathis1941PGeorge McAllister19301BBill McCall1925PHenry McCall1936–1937, 1939, 1944–19451BButch McCord1950OFWalter McCoy1945–1947PJim McCurine1946–1949OFLuther McDonald1930–1931, 1935PWebster McDonald1925–1929PLem McDougal1919PGready McKinnis1944–1945PWillie McMeans1945PHurley McNair1915OFClyde McNeal1944–1950Henry Merchant1940–1942OF / PJimmy Miles1935OFJohn Miles1946–19493B / OFZell Miles1937–1940OFEddie Miller1924–1925, 1927–1930P / SSHarry Millon1946–19462BGeorge Minor1944OFGeorge Mitchell1925, 1930PBill Monroe1911–19142BLeroy Morney1940SSYellowhorse Morris1929–1930PSy Morton1947SSPorter Moss1937PMitchell Murray1928–1930C

N–R PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefArthur Nance1929SSClyde Nelson1944–19463BElbert Norman1919SSJim Norman19143BCharles O'Neil1923CRafaelito Ortiz1948PGuy Ousley1931SSAubry Owens1922–1925PJuan Padrón1916, 1922, 1924–1925PBob Palm1947CClarence Palm1932CWilliam Parks1911–1913, 1915SS / OF / 1BJap Payne1911–1913OFJim Pendleton1948SSArt Pennington1941–1945OF / 1B / 2BBruce Petway1911–1918CBill Pierce1911–19131BRogers Pierre1939PRobert Poindexter1926–1929PMalvin Powell1929–1937OF / PWillie Powell1925–1928, 1932–1933PJohn Henry Prince19363BWesley Pryor19113BAlex Radcliff1927, 1929, 1932–1939, 1941–19443BTed Radcliffe1929, 1934, 1943C / PDick Redding1917PWilson Redus1934–1940OFJohnny Reed1938–19391B / 3BJohn Reese1920–1922OFDonald Reeves1939–1941OFArmy Rhodes1940, 19421BHarry Rhodes1942, 1946–1950Curtis Ricks1923PBill Riggins1920SSEd Rile1922–1924, 1929PJohnny Ritchey1947CJacob Robinson1946–1947SS / 3B / OFBenny Rodríguez1948OF / CNat Rogers1927–1928, 1931–1936, 1940, 1944OFHoward Ross1924–1925PHerman Roth1923–1925CPythias Russ1926–1929SS / C

S–T PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefOrmond Sampson1938SSTommy Sampson19492BJoe Scott19341BLloyd Scott19342BBee Selden1912SSJohn Shackelford19263BPepper Sharpe1944PWillie Sheelor1952Charlie Shields1941–1943PBill Simms1937–1940OFHerb Simpson19511B / OFOwen Smaulding1928PBob Smith1936, 1942, 1944CClarence Smith19311BErnie Smith1938–1940, 1942OF / CGene Smith1949–1951PGeorge Smith1951–1952OFHenry Smith1942–19432BJohnny Smith1943–1945OFJoe Sparks1937–19402B / SSClyde Spearman1941–1942OFOtis Starks1921PTurkey Stearnes‡1932–1935, 1937–1938OFRiley Stewart1946–1949PFelton Stratton19253BSam Streeter1921PJoe Strong1923PTed Strong1936–1937SSLonnie Summers1943, 1948–1949, 1951Tack Summers1923OFMule Suttles‡1929, 1933–19351B / OFLeroy Sutton1942–1944PGeorge Sweatt1926–1927OFRoosevelt Tate1937OFBen Taylor‡1913–19141BCandy Jim Taylor1912–1913, 1937, 19423BJoe Taylor1949, 1951OFLeRoy Taylor1925OFSteel Arm Johnny Taylor1913PClint Thomas1934OFWalter Thomas1935–1937, 1946OF / PGunboat Thompson1918PSam Thompson1942PSandy Thompson1926, 1928–1932OFJake Tolbert1946–1948CAlbert Toney1912SSCristóbal Torriente‡1919–1925OFHarold Treadwell1924, 1928PWalter Trehearn19441BTed Trent1934–1939PQuincy Trouppe1933, 1948CPop Turner1930, 1932SSTom Turner19471BRoy Tyler1925OFSteel Arm Tyler1926PRuby Tyrees1916P

U–Z PlayerYear(s)Position(s)RefRoberto Vargas1948PLee Wade1914POllie Waldon1944OFPinky Ward1924, 1931OFWillie Ware1924–19261BJesse Warren19472BBlue Washington1916PJack Watts1914–1915CWilliam Webster19181BWillie Wells‡1929, 1933–1935SSWillie Wells Jr.1944SSEdgar Wesley19181BOllie West1942–1945PBurlin White1916CClifford White1915CDick Whitworth1915–1919, 1922, 1924PFrank Wickware1911–1912, 1914–1920PBobby Williams1918–1925, 1928SSCharlie Williams1926–19312BChester Williams1930SSJesse F. Williams1945CJohn Williams19481BLemuel Williams1939PPoindexter Williams1921CSmokey Joe Williams‡1914PString Bean Williams1919PTom Williams1917, 1920–1921, 1923–1924PJumping Johnny Wilson1949James Winston1931PBernice Wood1916PWillie Woods1921OFLewis Woolfolk1923PRalph Wyatt1941–1946SSEd Young1938–1943, 1946–19471B

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