Robert "Ginney" Robinson (birthdate unknown) was an American
baseball
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catcher
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and in the pre-
Negro leagues
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.
Robinson was on teams lists in Chicago from 1902 to 1908.
He then moved to Kansas City to play for the
Kansas City Giants
The Kansas City Giants were a professional Negro leagues baseball team, based in Kansas City, Kansas. From 1909 to 1911, the Kansas City Giants played as a member of the Western Independent Clubs. The Kansas City Giants played home games at River ...
from 1909 to 1911.
He caught for
Bill Holland
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,
Will Horn,
Walter Ball,
Bill Gatewood
William Miller "Big Bill" Gatewood (August 22, 1881 – December 8, 1962) was an American Negro league baseball pitcher and manager for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first few seasons. He pitch ...
,
Harry Buckner
Harry Edward "Green River" Buckner (October 22, 1876 – March 26, 1938), also nicknamed "Buck" and "Goat Head", was an American Negro league pitcher and outfielder in the between 1896 and 1918.
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,
Bill Lindsay
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, and
Hurley McNair
Hurley Allen McNair (October 28, 1888 - December 2, 1948) was an American baseball player in the Negro leagues and the pre-Negro leagues.
At the age of 21, he was pitching for the Minneapolis Keystones. He left the Keystones halfway through the ...
.
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