Scrip Lee

American baseball player
Baseball player
Scrip Lee
Lee at the 1924 Colored World Series
Pitcher
Born: (1899-01-29)January 29, 1899
Washington, D.C.
Died: February 13, 1974(1974-02-13) (aged 75)
Washington, D.C.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Negro league baseball debut
1921, for the Bacharach Giants
Last appearance
1934, for the Cleveland Red Sox
Teams
  • Bacharach Giants (1921, 1933)
  • Baltimore Black Sox (1922, 1929–1931, 1933)
  • Hilldale Club (1923–1927, 1930)
  • Philadelphia Stars (1933)
  • Cleveland Red Sox (1934)

Holsey Scranton Scriptus Lee, Sr. (January 29, 1899 – February 13, 1974) was an American Negro league baseball pitcher. He played from 1921 to 1934 with several teams. He was nicknamed both Scrip and Script.[1]

Before his Negro leagues career, Lee served in the National Guard, fighting against Pancho Villa's forces at the Mexican border in 1916. He also served in the 372nd Infantry during World War I, earning two battle stars and a Purple Heart.[2]

References

  1. ^ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
  2. ^ Bruns, Roger (2012). Negro Leagues Baseball. ABC-CLIO. p. 32. ISBN 978-0313386480.

External links

  • Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
  • Negro League Baseball Museum
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Hilldale Club 1925 Colored World Series champions
Otto Briggs
Bullet Campbell
George Carr
Phil Cockrell
Rube Curry
George Johnson
Judy Johnson
Script Lee
Joe Lewis
Biz Mackey
Newt Robinson
Red Ryan
Louis Santop
Jake Stephens
Clint Thomas
Frank Warfield
Namon Washington
Nip Winters
Manager
Frank Warfield


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