Joseph Burt Scott (October 2, 1920 – March 21, 2013) was an American baseball

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and

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who played in several different

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. A

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hitter, Scott played from 1936 through 1956 for the

New York Black Yankees The New York Black Yankees were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New York City; Paterson, New Jersey; and Rochester, New York. Beginning as the independent Harlem Stars, the team was renamed the New York Black Yankees in 1932 an ...

Pittsburgh Crawfords The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team, previously known as the Crawford Colored Giants, was named after the Crawford Bath House, a recre ...

Chicago American Giants The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" F ...

Memphis Red Sox The Memphis Red Sox were an American Negro league baseball team that was active from 1920 to 1959. Originally named the Barber College Baseball Club, the team was initially owned and operated by Arthur P. Martin, a local Memphis barber. In the l ...

and

Zulu Cannibal Giants The Zulu Cannibal Giants were an American Negro league baseball team (they referred to themselves as a Baseball " Zulu Tribe", based on a concept inspired by the war in Ethiopia), formed in 1934 by Charlie Henry in Louisville, Kentucky. Backgro ...

. Scott attended Tilden Tech High School in

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. He was the only player of color on his high school team which won the 1937 city championship played at

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. He was 5'7" and weighed 160 during his playing career. In 1942, Scott had a

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of .714 in 58 games before the season was ended early due to

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. He went on to serve in the

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during the war. In 2008,

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staged a special draft of the surviving Negro league players, doing a tribute for those ballplayers who were kept out of the Big Leagues because of their race. MLB clubs each drafted a former NLB player, and Scott was selected by the

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.2008 Special Negro Leagues Draft
''MLB.com.'' Retrieved on February 26, 2019. Scott died on March 21, 2013, after suffering a stroke while sleeping. He was 92.

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Bio Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Joseph Burt Scott 1920 births 2013 deaths African-American baseball players Baseball first basemen Baseball outfielders Baseball players from Chicago Chicago American Giants players Memphis Red Sox players New York Black Yankees players Baseball players from Memphis, Tennessee Pittsburgh Crawfords players Zulu Cannibal Giants players 20th-century African-American sportsmen 21st-century African-American sportsmen United States Army personnel of World War II