Troy Rassmussen Dandridge (April 22, 1904 – April 12, 1993) was an American

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in the 1920s. A native of Lucy, Tennessee, Dandridge played for the

Dayton Marcos The Dayton Marcos were a Negro league baseball team based from Dayton, Ohio that played during the early twentieth century. Founding and early years The Dayton Marcos history predates the formal organized leagues of Negro league baseball. As a ...

in 1926. He died in

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in 1993 at age 88.

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