Clarence Griffin (Baseball) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Clarence Griffin

Negro League Baseball Player

Played for the following teams

Columbus Blue Birds 1933
Cleveland Red Sox 1934
Newark Eagles

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

 

Clarence Griffin - Green Lawn Cemetery

Clarence Griffin
Negro League Baseball player
Columbus Blue Birds 1933
Cleveland Red Sox 1934
Brooklyn Eagles 1935

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio 

 

Clarence (C.B.) Griffin (Negro League Baseball) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Clarence Griffin
https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?ID=1680

Picture of an article at the 2013 Ohio State Fair

Harold Tinker (Pittsburgh Crawfords) - Allegheny Cemetery

Allegheny Cemetery
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Harold Tinker
http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=tinker000har

Pittsburgh Crawfords
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Crawfords

Clarence Griffin (Negro League Baseball Player) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Clarence Griffin
https://seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?ID=1680

Played for:

Columbus Blue Birds 1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Blue_Birds

Cleveland Red Sox 1934
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Red_Sox

Brooklyn Eagles 1935
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Eagles

All were part of the second Negro National League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_National_League_(1933%E2%80%9348)

Green Lawn Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lawn_Cemetery_(Columbus,_Ohio)
Columbus, Ohio

Josh Gibson Jr. (Baseball) - Homewood Cemetery

Josh Gibson Jr.
Homewood Cemetery
Section: 31
Lot: GOP
Division: D
Grave: 150
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=gibson&GSiman=1&GSsr=41&GScid=45139&GRid=7875759&

Charles Grant - Spring Grove Cemetery

Spring Grove Cemetery
Section 68, grave 417
Cincinnati, Ohio

Charlie Grant was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1874. Grant started out with the Page Fence Giants in 1896. From 1899 to 1901, Grant played for the Columbia Giants based out of Chicago. In 1901, Grant was spotted by John McGraw, manager of the American League Baltimore Orioles. McGraw tried to pass Grant off as Cherokee named Charlie Tokohama. The plan fell through when the Orioles played a game in Chicago and some of Grant's darker skinned friends presented him with a flower bouquet.

Grant played with various teams off and on until 1916. While working as a janitor at a apartment building in 1932, a car blew a tire and hit and killed grant.

1905 Philadelphia Giants team photo with Charlie Grant.

Josh Gibson - Allegheny Cemetery

Section 50, Lot SG-C232

From a recent trip to Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh. It was my 3rd time to Allegheny Cemetery and I've stopped by Josh Gibson's grave each time.

Gibson, who was elected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame in 1972, spent his entire career in the Negro Leagues. Mostly famously with the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords. Two of the most well known Negro League teams.

Called the black Babe Ruth, Gibson has been estimated to have hit 900 home runs in his career. Probably didn't hit that many but since Negro Leagues record keeping is extremely spotty at best, less than 200 homers are accounted for. He played from 1930 to 1936 and died in 1947.

Gibson was buried in an unmarked grave until 1975 when the current marker was installed at his grave. One of the people who chipped in to buy the marker was then Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn. He died a few months before Jackie Robinson became the 1st black major league player in the 20th century. Robison was at least the 3rd black major leaguer. Moses Fleetwood Walker beat Robinson by about 60 years.

Gibson's Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Gibson

Homestead Grays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Grays

Pittsburgh Crawfords:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Crawfords

Gibson's son did briefly play some Negro League baseball as well.

Josh Gibson Jr. isn't in the same cemetery as his dad. Junior Gibson is actually buried in Homestead Cemetery in Pittsburgh. He played in 1949 and 1950.