The Memphis Red Sox were an American Negro league baseball team that was active from 1920 to 1959. Originally named the Barber College Baseball Club, the team was initially owned and operated by Arthur P. Martin, a local Memphis barber. In the late 1920s the Martin brothers, all three Memphis doctors and businessmen, purchased the Red Sox. J. B. Martin, W. S. Martin, and B. B. Martin, would retain control of the club till its dissolution in 1959. The Red Sox played as members, at various times, of the Negro Southern League, Negro National League, and Negro American League. The team was never a titan of the Negro leagues like wealthier teams in northern cities of the United States, but sound management led to a continuous thirty-nine years of operation, a span that was exceeded by very few other teams. Following integration the team had five players that would eventually make the rosters of Major League Baseball teams and two players that were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Indianapolis ABCs temporarily drop out for the season in June, the MemphisRedSox replace them The Cleveland Browns folded. The Indianapolis ABCs resume...
(1937–1962) MemphisRedSox (1937–1959) St. Louis Stars (II) (1937) Atlanta Black Crackers (1938) / Indianapolis ABCs (IV) (1939) Jacksonville Red Caps (1938;...
The 1938 MemphisRedSox baseball team represented the MemphisRedSox in the Negro American League (NAL) during the 1938 baseball season. The team compiled...
18-year-old Gibson was picked up by the MemphisRedSox for a game in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Despite going 2 for 4, RedSox manager Candy Jim Taylor was not...
professional baseball pitcher in Negro league baseball who played for the MemphisRedSox from 1949 to 1956. Harris was born in Parkin, Arkansas and pitched...
Cincinnati Tigers and the MemphisRedSox and was a three-time participant in the Negro league All-Star game. While returning to Memphis after a game, Moss was...
played the majority of his career with the MemphisRedSox, and in his final season of 1949 represented Memphis in the East–West All-Star Game. Hutchinson...
(1933), New York Black Yankees, Brooklyn Eagles, Cincinnati Tigers, MemphisRedSox, Birmingham Black Barons, Chicago American Giants, Louisville Buckeyes...
Philadelphia Phillies Brian Flynn, 18th round, 562nd overall by the Boston RedSox Steve Lombardozzi Jr., 19th round, 571st overall by the Washington Nationals...
played in Negro league baseball for the Birmingham Black Barons and the MemphisRedSox from 1940 to 1947, then played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to...
become a professional baseball player. In 1952, he pitched for the MemphisRedSox of the Negro American League. In 1953, he signed a contract with the...
Grey Sox of the Southern Negro League. He was Montgomery's leadoff hitter and led the club to the league pennant. He switched to the MemphisRedSox. In...
heralded on billboards around the city as "a little World Series." The MemphisRedSox took the series six games to three. The largest turnout for a game...
Pride spent two seasons in the Negro American League pitching with the MemphisRedSox in the 1955 season and for the Kansas City Monarchs in 1956. He picked...
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field the bunt, rounded the bag. The catcher, Roy Partee of the Boston RedSox, ran to third to cover the bag and an anticipated return throw from first...
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