Samuel Streeter (September 17, 1900 - August 15, 1985) was an American

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in the

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. He played professionally from 1920 to 1936 with several teams, mostly with the

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and the

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 ...

. Streeter started for the East in the inaugural

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in 1933.

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