The New Orleans Crescent Stars were an independent Negro league baseball club that existed from 1933 to 1934.
3-490: The New Orleans team helped produce several players as Pepper Bassett , Gene Bremer , Lloyd Davenport , Harry Else , Barney Morris , Tom Parker , Red Parnell , Hilton Smith and Felton Snow , who managed them at one point. The team played at Crescent Star Park . This article about a baseball team in Louisiana is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Negro league baseball team article
6-607: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pepper Bassett Lloyd "Pepper" Bassett (August 5, 1910 – December 28, 1980) was an American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues and the Mexican League . He played professionally from 1934 to 1954, playing mainly with the Birmingham Black Barons ; he was All-Star seven times. Bassett was 15 years old when began his career in 1934 with
9-538: The minor league New Orleans Crescent Stars ; while playing for New Orleans, he suggested to the team owner that as a stunt to draw a larger audience, he should catch some games while sitting in a rocking chair ; the stunt was a success, and he would occasionally resort to that stunt throughout his career. During the 1944 Negro World Series , Bassett was injured in a car accident, along with Tommy Sampson , John Britton , and Leandy Young . This biographical article relating to an American baseball catcher born in
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