The East–West All-Star Game was an annual all-star game for Negro league baseball players. The game was the brainchild of Gus Greenlee, owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords. In 1933 he decided to emulate
The 1936 Negro League East–West All-Star Game at Comiskey Park
Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. An accomplished two-way player, he played as a pitcher and a catcher, became a manager, an
Radcliffe c. 1935
Radcliffe (kneeling, 3rd from right) with 1931 Grays
Frontispiece of McNary's biography of Radcliffe autographed by its subject