Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays: A Biography of the Negro Leagues Owner and Hall of Famer

? Cumberland Posey began his career in 1911 playing outfield for the Homestead Grays, a local black team in his Pennsylvania hometown. He soon became the squad's driving force as they dominated semi-pro ball in the Pittsburgh area. By the late 1930s the Grays were at the top of the Negro Leagues with nine straight pennant wins. Posey was also a League officer; he served 13 years as the first black member of the Homestead school board; and he wrote an outspoken sports column for the African American weekly, the Pittsburgh Courier. He was regarded as one of the best black basketball players in the East; he was the organizer of a team that held the consensus national black championship five years running. Ten years after his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame--one of only two athletes to be honored by two pro sports halls.

• | Author: James E. Overmyer
• | Publisher: McFarland
• | Publication Date: January 08, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 285 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1476663947
• | ISBN-13: 9781476663944