Charles Howard (May 1873 – August 14, 1904), nicknamed "Doc", was an American

Negro league The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

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in the 1890s. A native of

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, Howard played for the Cuban Giants in 1897 and the

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the following two seasons. He died in East Liverpool, Ohio in 1904 at age 31. Howard was shot and killed by a woman he had been attacking.

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