Alonzo Perry
Alonzo Perry | |
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First baseman/Pitcher | |
Born: Birmingham, Alabama | April 14, 1923|
Died: October 13, 1982 Birmingham, Alabama | (aged 59)|
Negro league baseball debut | |
1940, for the Homestead Grays | |
Last Mexican League appearance | |
1963, for the Sultanes de Monterrey | |
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Alonzo Thomas Perry (April 14, 1923 - October 13, 1982) was a professional baseball first baseman and pitcher in the Negro leagues and in the Mexican League. He played from 1940 to 1963 with several teams.[1]
While with the Barons, Perry was a teammate of Willie Mays in the late 1940s. Piper Davis, the manager, had most of the players take turns watching out for the young Mays—except for Perry and Jimmy Newberry. "No one knew what they would get into after a game. They liked the ladies and they liked their beer," Mays said.[2]
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External links[]
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference (Minors) and Seamheads
Categories:
- 1923 births
- 1982 deaths
- Homestead Grays players
- Birmingham Black Barons players
- Oakland Oaks (baseball) players
- Syracuse Chiefs players
- Baseball players from Birmingham, Alabama
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople
- Baseball infielders
- American baseball first baseman stubs
- Negro league baseball infielder stubs