Lemuel Hawkins
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Lemuel Hawkins was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants from 1921 to 1928. He was 5'10" and weighed 18
Hawkins at the 1924 Colored World Series
Plaque honoring Hawkins at Luther Williams Field in Macon, Georgia
Heavy Johnson
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Oscar "Heavy" Johnson was an American professional baseball outfielder, catcher, and first baseman in the Negro leagues. Johnson was one of the Negro league's foremost power hitters in the 1920s, repo
Lemuel Hawkins
…the successful 25th Infantry Wreckers baseball team posted at Schofield Barracks at Wahiawa, Hawaii and Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. He, along with teammates Heavy Johnson, Dobie Moore, Bullet Rogan, and Bob Fagin, joined the Kansas City Monarchs in the early 1920s. Hawkins was the Monarchs' everyday first baseman from…
Johnson at the 1924 Colored World Series.