Born September 17, 1879, died December 9th, 1930.
He was a black baseball player and one of the best. He helped form the negro leagues. He attended Kansas State University. He was a raw talented pitcher. In his first year of baseball he was a pitcher in the Chicago Union Giants franchise. He finished the year with 51 victories including a win against the great pitcher, Rube Waddell (that's where he got it). He continued his awesome pitching into the next year compiling a 54-1 record with the Cuban X-Giants.
He then played for the Philadelphia Giants squad the next year, winning 2 games in the playoffs against his former teammates. He was a manager for the with the Leland Giants in 1907 and also played.
In 1910, he was in charge of one of the best black teams in history, the Chicago American Giants. They had players such as John Henry Lloyd, Pete Hill, and Home Run Johnson were on this team. The American Giants absolutely demolished all other competition, winning an estimated 11 championships. Foster himself even pitched whenever he was needed but most of the time he remained the coach.
He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. His middle name actually is Rube he changed it to that late in his life.
I think he sounds like he was a very respectable guy back in the day. It sounds like he could do everything. If there was ever a player like that in todays day and age it would be incredible. No doubt he should be a hall of famer.
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What did he do in the 1920's?