William Nathaniel Rogers (July 21, 1893 – December 1981) was an American

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player in the

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from the 1920s to the 1940s. A native of

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, Rogers played

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, and

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. In 1927, he had a 31-game hitting streak for the

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 ...

. Rogers died in 1981 in

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...

at age 88.

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