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Rube Foster

Rube Foster was the star of the 1915 World Series, pitching two complete-game wins for the Boston Red Sox in a five-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies and going 4-for-8 at the plate. His ninth-inning single won Game Two.

Foster played pro ball for just one team in the big leagues, the Red Sox, with a career earned run average of 2.36 and a .637 winning percentage (58-33); in 842 1/3 innings of pitching, he allowed only six home runs. When the Sox traded him away, he refused to report and didn’t play in organized ball for the next five years.

In all he played 17 years in baseball, and had four wives (in succession) over the course of a long life. He was born in Indian Territory – in Lehigh, Oklahoma, on January 5, 1888.1 His father Jonathan Foster appears to have been a chair carver who had emigrated from England to the United States with his wife Mary and their four sons (Jonathan, Robert, John, and William.) George was the first child in the Foster family born in America. Another son, Alfred, and daughter, Katie, followed.

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Rube Foster

Jackie Robinson is considered by many to be the most famous Black baseball player. This opinion is understandable, for Robinson broke the color line and is well known in circles far removed from baseball. But perhaps the person with the greatest impact upon Black baseball is Andrew “Rube” Foster.2 Not only was Foster one of the best pitchers and managers of the early twentieth century but he also was the architect of the Negro National League. Despite facing immense racial prejudice, Foster carried out three distinctive baseball positions during his lifetime and is often known as the “Father of Negro Baseball.”

What was Foster like personally? He carried his religious heritage into adulthood. And he never indulged in intoxicants. He did tolerate drinking among his players, though if a player showed up to the ballpark hungover, Foster would tell him to go back to the hotel if he could not play.3 Foster was respected by his players. Jelly Gardner, who played for Foster in the early 1920s, said “[Foster] was a nice manager, an even-tempered man. His dictums we

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Andrew "Rube" Foster

Andrew Foster
Nicknames: Rube, Jock

Career: 1902-1926
Positions: p, 1b, of, manager, executive, owner, founder, officer (Negro National League)
Teams: Chicago Union Giants (1902), Cuban X Giants (1903), Philadelphia Giants (1904-1906), Leland Giants (1907-1910), Chicago American Giants (1911-1926)
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2'' Weight: 200
Born: September 17, 1879, Calvert, Texas
Died: December 9, 1930, Kankakee, Illinois
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (1981)

He was recognized as the father of the Negro Leagues, and Foster's career exemplifies the essence of black baseball. As a raw talent rookie pitcher soon after the turn of the century, the big Texan was credited with 51 victories in 1902, including a win over the great Rube Waddell, the game in which Foster received his nickname. The son of Sarah and Andrew Foster, the youngster had been named after his minister father but would ever afterward be called by his earned nickname. Soon after completing the eighth grade in Calvert, Texas, the youthful Foster bega