Samuel Mitchell Holmes Sr. (December 11, 1915–November 8, 2010), was an American baseball player. He played in the

Negro leagues 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 ...

for the

Monroe Monarchs The Monroe Monarchs were a professional baseball team based in Monroe, Louisiana, which played in the Negro leagues from the late 1920s to about 1935, mostly as a minor league team loosely associated with the Kansas City Monarchs. The team was cr ...

(though it is assumed he played for them after they left the major Negro Southern League following 1932), and the

Denver White Elephants The Denver White Elephants was a semi-professional independent African-American baseball team in Denver, Colorado, United States. The team was active from 1915 to 1935, and practiced at Broadway Park at 6th and Acoma Streets in Denver. The team pl ...

, a semi-professional team. He was born in Bosco, Louisiana.

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