Born:(1868-06-12)June 12, 1868 Bellaire, Ohio, U.S.
Died: August 26, 1955(1955-08-26) (aged 87) Central Islip, New York, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
debut
1887, for the Pittsburgh Keystones
Last appearance
1926, for the Newark Stars (coach)
Teams
Pittsburgh Keystones (1887–1888, 1892)
Wheeling Green Stockings, Ohio State League (1887)
New York Gorhams (1889, 1891)
Cuban Giants (1890–1891, 1893–1894, 1896)[1]
York Colored Monarchs, Eastern Interstate League (1890)
Boston Monarchs (1893)
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Western Interstate League (1895)
Page Fence Giants (1895)
Cuban X-Giants (1896–1899, 1901)
Chicago Columbia Giants (1900)[2]
Philadelphia Giants (1902–1908)[3]
Philadelphia Quaker Giants (1909)
Brooklyn Royal Giants (1910)
New York Lincoln Giants (1911)
Boston Giants (1912)
Columbus Buckeyes (1921)
Cleveland Browns (1924)
Newark Stars (1926)
Career highlights and awards
Negro league baseball
Managed Philadelphia Giants to four straight black baseball championships (1904–1907)
Wrote first book on black professional baseball, Sol White's Official Base Ball Guide (1907)
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
2006
Election method
Committee on African-American Baseball
King Solomon "Sol" White (June 12, 1868 – August 26, 1955) was an American professional baseball infielder, manager and executive, and one of the pioneers of the Negro leagues. An active sportswriter for many years, he wrote the first definitive history of black baseball in 1907. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
^"Genuine Cuban Giants" The Evening Times, Washington, DC, Saturday, May 23, 1896, Page 3, Column 5
^"The Columbia Giants of Chicago" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, IN, Saturday, March 24, 1900, Page 7, Column 1
^"Giants Were Twice Defeated" The Patriot, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Friday, September 11, 1903, Page 7, Columns 1 and 2
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