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. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relativel ...

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in the 1890s. A native of

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, Howard played for the

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in 1897 and the

Cuban X-Giants The Cuban X-Giants were a professional Negro league baseball, Negro league baseball team that played from 1896 to 1906. Originally most of the players were former Cuban Giants, or ex-Giants. Like the Cuban Giants, the original players were not Cu ...

the following two seasons. He died in

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in 1904 at age 31. Howard was shot and killed by a woman he had been attacking.

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