Did Jimmy Claxton know Pete Standridge?

Thank you. Absolutely Gary, another "candidate" could have been the umpire of that game a gentleman named Guthrie who ump'd a game earlier in the season when Claxton pitched for the Oakland Oak Leafs (the premier colored team in the Bay area). Don't think he would qualify as a "supposed friend" though.

Also a pitcher for the Oaks named Higginbotham (joined the Oaks after Claxton was released June 3), who played for Portland in 1915 where Claxton had spent the season integrating the Portland Inter-City League for the Sellwood Dingbats.

Too many others to speculate on, but really need to examine all angles on a subject as sensitive as this....

Forgot to mention Standridge was also on the 1909 Vancouver Beavers where another African American "Big Chief" Dick Brookins tried to pass himself as Native American. Brookins was dismissed from the team prior to the beginning of the season. Great story on that here:
http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/profi...kins_dick.html

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JD Mah's website is terrific. Have you contacted @tomhawthorn tomhawthorn (a) gmail.com. Tom is a great writer who has done some work on Jimmy Claxton

Tried and tried but noone is willing to help me. SABR is a sick joke... Had to step out on my own. GLADLY GIVE THEM INFO IF THEY DIDN'T WANT $$$$$. It's only the most important story of African American baseball history prior to Jackie Robinson go ahead and ignore it.

Challenge yourselves!

Did I mention Claxton was the first African American manager of a WHITE semi-pro team (1926-31 Roslyn Yippers). Known as "Claxton's Crew" he had 13 consecutive hits in 1929 with the team (he only hit .750 that season). Louis Bruno, Emil Fara, & Floyd Chapeta also played for the Yippers in '29. Bruno became the superintendent of Public Schools in Washington, Fara hit the longest homerun in the Renton ballpark (later Sicks Staidum), and "Peck" Chapeta was a semi-paralyzed one-armed polio smasher of the ball. Both Fara and Chapeta were offered contracts with the Seattle Indiians in 1930. Would SABR like more info? PM me.Too much info to share here.....

**** FULL DISCLOSURE: I DO NOT OWN A JIMMY CLAXTON OR PETE STANDRIDGE BASEBALL CARD *****