Archie Virgil Ware (June 19, 1918 – December 13, 1990) was an American

first baseman A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majori ...

Negro league baseball The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relativel ...

. He played between 1942 and 1952. In between, Ware played winter ball in

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

with the

Navegantes del Magallanes Navegantes del Magallanes B.B.C., commonly known as Navegantes del Magallanes (; ''Strait of Magellan, Magellan Navigators''), or simply Magallanes, are a professional baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), based in ...

club in the 1947–48 season, and for the Spur Cola Colonites of

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

in 1950–51, playing for Spur Cola in the

1951 Caribbean Series The third edition of the Caribbean Series (''Serie del Caribe'') was played in 1951. The Series inauguration on February 21 was delayed due to heavy rain and it was held from February 22 through February 26, including two double-headers on Februar ...

.Nuñez, José Antero (1994). ''Serie del Caribe de la Habana a Puerto La Cruz''. JAN Editor.

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''Cleveland Magazine''. May 2006 issue. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ware, Archie 1918 births 1990 deaths African-American baseball players Cincinnati/Cleveland Buckeyes players Cleveland Buckeyes players Farnham Pirates players Lewiston Broncs players Navegantes del Magallanes players American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela People from Greenville, Florida 20th-century African-American sportsmen