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Black History from Pittsburgh
EVERY WEEK we will honor and represent our African American heroes. TO VIEW BLACK HISTORY ARCHIVES CLICK HERE |
We
know that it is very important for the world to know about our heritage.
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The
Week of July 9th, 2006: IN BLACK
HISTORY
After playing for the Gimbel Brothers and Westinghouse Airbrake company teams, Josh began catching for the Pittsburgh Crawfords in 1927. With the addition of Gibson, the Crawfords rose to the top of the city's sandlot teams and challenged Cumberland Posey's Homestead Grays, a stellar club of Black professional baseball players from across the nation....read more from The Josh Gibson Foundation REST IN PEACE: (R.I.P.)
Andrea Lee Oliver Woodson aka "Andy" aka "Mother" Lucy Curry , Dot Talley, Vera Downing,
Bertrand "Goocher" Frye, Irma Woodson, Copyright 2005 Brotha Ash Productions. All Rights Reserved |
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Josh
Gibson, the man that many regard as the
greatest Negro League player ever, was born on December 21, 1911,
in Buena Vista, Georgia. He relocated
to southwestern Pennsylvania in 1924 after his father found work
in a Pittsburgh area steel mill. 
