Garcia Massingale (June 22, 1928 – November 28, 1990) was an American
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 ...
player in the 1940s.
A native of
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City (commonly known as KCK) is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As ...
, Massingale played for the
Kansas City Monarchs
The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by J. L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 193 ...
in 1945. He died in
Seattle, Washington
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in 1990 at age 62.
References
External links
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Seamheads
1928 births
1990 deaths
Kansas City Monarchs players
Baseball players from Kansas City, Kansas
20th-century African-American sportsmen
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