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	The Josh Gibson Foundation: Home of the Josh Gibson Foundation
		It is the goal of the Foundation to establish a history and learning center in Homestead, PA to reach out to the families and youth of the community on which Josh Gibson left his mark.
		In addition to direct instruction, the Josh Gibson Foundation provides motivational programming.
		The goal of this is to show children at risk that there is a larger world outside of their community that is full of options for them.
	www.joshgibson.org (348 words)

	Josh Gibson - BR Bullpen
		Josh Gibson is considered one of the greatest hitters of the Negro Leagues.
		Gibson tied Charleston for the East-West League lead with 10 homers, led the loop with 16 doubles and was second to Charleston with 6 triples.
		Gibson died of a stroke at age 35 on January 20, 1947 in Pittsburgh, PA and was buried in the Allegheny Cemetery in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Josh_Gibson (2850 words)

	Josh Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 in Buena Vista, Georgia - January 20, 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a catcher in baseball's Negro Leagues.
		Gibson died of a stroke in 1947, at age 35, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just three months before Jackie Robinson became the first fl player in modern major league history.
		Gibson is buried in the Allegheny Cemetery in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josh_Gibson (909 words)

	Josh Gibson \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Gibson was born on December 21, 1911 in Buena Vista, Georgia.
		Gibson batted for a phenomenal.461 average in his rookie year and was a key factor in the Grays' win over New York's Lincoln Giants in the playoffs for the Eastern Division championship.
		Gibson suffered a stroke in a movie theater and was taken unconscious to his mother's house where he died a few hours later.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/G/Gibson_Josh.stm (1641 words)

	ESPN.com: No joshing about Gibson's talents
		Gibson is often referred to as the fl Babe Ruth for his ability to hit tape-measure homers, and he also hit for incredibly high averages.
		Gibson was born Dec. 21, 1911 in Buena Vista, Ga., and his family reportedly moved to Pittsburgh in the 1920s.
		Gibson was forced to abandon the Mexican League and return to the Grays in 1942 after the team's owner, Cum Posey, hit him with a lawsuit.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00016050.html (862 words)

	Josh Gibson and Yankee Stadium
		Josh Gibson finally got to Yankee Stadium in the end of July for what would be the third double-header.
		In any case, Josh made his first appearance in a double-header in late May. The Yankees and the Grays split, with the outstanding play of the day being "Chin" Green's catch of Gibson's drive to the flagpole in center, followed by a quick throw to the infield for a double play.
		Gibson's blow, which scored Dan Wilson, was hailed as one of the longest ever hit in Yankee Stadium, the ball going into the far-away centerfield stands." The Afro-American goes on to state that three days earlier he had hit one to straight-away center in Forbes Field, a 457-foot blast.
	www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/negleg/joshyank.html (3400 words)

	Online Meanderings: The Apocryphal home-run hitter (Josh Gibson)
		Josh Gibson died in 1947, the same year Jackie Robinson broke in with the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first fl baseball player in the major leagues since fls were banned in 1888.
		Gibson was one month beyond his 36th birthday when he died of a brain tumor for which he had refused treatment.
		Josh Gibson and his colleagues have been treated as deuterocanonicals in the history of baseball, but they are the genuine and inspired article.
	www.toad.net /~andrews/josh.html (1300 words)

	Josh Gibson - The Black Babe Ruth
		By the time Josh was in his early teens, he had begun to show promise on the sandlots that surrounded the steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania and by his late teens, he was playing semipro ball.
		Gibson didn't just destroy Negro League pitchers, he also showed white major leaguers what he was capable of doing with the lumber.
		Considering Gibson played the majority of his career in Forbes Field with a center field measured at 457 feet and Griffith Stadium, whose center rests at the 421-foot mark, his home run totals could have been higher had he played in some of the less challenging stadiums of the league.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article4210.chtml (2356 words)

	Josh Gibson - Wiki Gonzalez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Josh Gibson is one of the legends of the Negro Leagues, and one of baseball's all-time great players.
		Gibson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, the second Negro League player (after Satchel Paige) to be awarded that honor.
		Gibson was elected to the Hall of Merit retroactively in 1952.
	digamma.net /btfwiki/Josh_Gibson (403 words)

	Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues / William Brashler \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Yet Roy Campanella, who was coming into the leagues as a rookie when Josh was in the prime of his career, considered Josh his idol and felt that, as a catcher, "I couldn't carry Josh's glove.
		Josh's came from behind his ear as he was still in his crouch.
		From Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues by William Brashler.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/excerpts/josh_gibson7.stm (877 words)

	Josh Gibson -- Dazzled the fans of the Negro Leagues with his power
		Josh Gibson was born in 1911 in Buena Vista, Ga. His father, Mark, scratched out enough of a living to keep his three children fed. However, in 1924, his father found work in the factories in Pittsburgh and moved the family there.
		Gibson dropped out of school that year after completing the ninth grade and took a job at a local factory producing air brakes.
		Gibson, often referred to as the Black Babe Ruth, is credited with 69 home runs in 1934.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/g/gibson_josh.html (815 words)

	Stage Preview: The real Josh Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Josh Gibson is the only man ever to smack a homer over the wall at Yankee Stadium, and he may have done it twice.
		Gibson was born in Buena Vista, Ga., and moved with his father to Pittsburgh's North Side when he was 12.
		His Josh Gibson Foundation teaches urban kids the history of the Negro Leagues and bankrolls a Little League team that plays at the Hill's Ammon's Recreation Center, the former home field of the Crawfords.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20010719gibson0719p2.asp (929 words)

	I N H E R I T A G E
		Josh Gibson was born in Buena Vista, Georgia, on December 21, 1911.
		The remainder of Gibson’s life would view him as distant and removed from the life of his children (who were raised [even named] by their aunt, Helen’s sister).
		Gibson worked hard to improve as a “receiver.” It shouldn’t be a surprise that he took to the basic skills required to catch rather instinctively: developing a rifle arm for throwing out runners and a shrewd understanding of how to strategize pitch selections – keeping hitters guessing, thereby keeping the advantage with his pitcher.
	www.inheritage.org /almanack/b_gibson.html (2953 words)

	NEGRO LEAGUE LEGEND / THE BLACK BABE / Josh Gibson may have been the greatest home-run hitter ever
		Gibson's plaque at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown reflects the uncertainty, declaring he hit "almost 800 home runs in league and independent baseball." Much like Sadaharu Oh, who hit 868 homers in his career in Japan, it is nearly impossible to measure Gibson against the elite power hitters in major-league history.
		Gibson and Paige, the charismatic pitcher, were the fabled stars of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s and '40s, magnetic personalities who captivated African American kids such as Newcombe.
		This immovable statistical cloud is the lone source of frustration for Sean Gibson, Josh's great-grandson and the caretaker of his legacy since Gibson's son, Josh Jr., died in 2003.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/05/SPGQNIL8UR1.DTL (1907 words)

	Josh Gibson: an Essay
		The story of Josh Gibson is one that captures the story of many African Americans in the midst of what is now known as the Great Migration.
		Gibson would play for the Grays for the rest of his career** and thus we have our G which stands for the Grays of Homestead - a team that was started as a recreational league for fl steelworkers.
		He was not against seeing Gibson or any of the other boys make the grade, but as an official he had to protect his own league and rights" (Lanctot, 441).
	www.pace.edu /library/pages/links/ondisplay/joshessay.htm (2031 words)

	Josh Gibson
		Josh was born in the deep South in the hamlet of Buena Vista of southwest Georgia, but his family moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was 11 years old and ready to enter the sixth grade.
		Gibson was started out as a catcher because of his body structure, but was tried at other positions because he was a defensive liability behind the plate.
		Gibson was voted ninth, ahead of such household names as Hank Aaron (12th), Lou Gehrig (14th), and Rogers Hornsby (22nd).
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3778.html (1148 words)

	Mark McGwire vs Josh Gibson - The Tail of the Facts and Rumors
		Joshua Gibson, was born in Buena Vista, Georgia on, Dec. 21, 1911 and is considered by many as the greatest power hitter to ever hold a bat in any baseball league in the United States.
		Gibson is credited with 962 home runs in his 17 year career, he also compiled a.391 lifetime batting average in the Negro Leagues.
		Gibson was well liked and respected by his peers, His popularity extended to the fans, and he was voted to start in nine East-West All-Star games, in which he compiled a sensational.483 batting average.
	www.timbooktu.com /cinque/josh.htm (1071 words)

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		Josh Gibson, born December 21, 1911, was the son southern steelworker Mark Gibson and his wife Nancy Gibson.
		Josh was approached by Harold Tinker to play for the sandlot Crawfords.
		Josh Gibson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
	northbysouth.kenyon.edu /2000/baseball/Josh_Gibson.htm (753 words)

	Josh Gibson
		Often referred to as the "fl Babe Ruth" during his career, Gibson was as much a force in Negro League baseball as the Bambino was in the major leagues.
		In January, 1946 Gibson suddenly died at the age of 35.
		In 1972 Gibson followed Satchel Paige as the Negro Leagues' second alumnus to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall Of Fame.
	www.negroleaguebaseball.com /players/Gibson.html (279 words)

	Mark Ribowsky / Josh Gibson
		It is said that Josh Gibson is the only man ever to have hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium.
		Though Gibson is best remembered as "the fl Babe Ruth," Ruth became a beloved symbol of the national pastime, while Josh Gibson lived a life veiled in the darkness that came both from the shadow world of the Negro leagues and from within his own tortured soul.
		Josh Gibson is the most complete, thorough, and authoritative account of the life of fl ball's greatest hitter, and one of its most important stars.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f04/ribowsky.html (324 words)

	purevolume™ \| Josh Gibson (SF)
		San Francisco, CA Josh Gibson seems to have always had music in the blood.
		Josh performs with his original band Seven Days Straight, and an Alice In Chains Tribute band called Junkhead in time off, and as demand increases for his time.
		Josh Gibson (SF) hasn't posted any shows yet.
	www.purevolume.com /joshgibsonsf (131 words)

	Book Review: Josh Gibson - A Life in the Negro Leagues
		It was a hard life in the negro leagues, and Josh Gibson was a legend who lived, played and died there.
		Josh started suffering from a condition (now believed to be hypertension, which ran in his family) that caused him headaches, dizziness, and disorientation.
		The player’s memories of Josh Gibson are good ones, and we hear tales of Josh and his teammates in the negro leagues.
	www.athomeplate.com /gibson.shtml (923 words)

	Josh Gibson
		Josh Gibson was known as "the Babe Ruth of the Negro Leagues".
		Hall-Of-Famer Judy Johnson gave the young Josh Gibson his first taste of professional baseball in 1930 when, on the basis of Gibson's local reputation, he allowed Gibson to don a Homestead Grays uniform to complete the game as catcher after Gray's catcher Buck Ewing sustained an injury.
		Gibson offered such a performance that the Grays signed him to a contract the next day.
	members.tripod.com /baseball_fan_2/gibsonj.htm (315 words)

	JOSH GIBSON'S GRAVESITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Gibson's plaque at the Cooperstown credits him with nearly 800 home runs in his career, though that number is thought to be on the conservative side.
		Gibson is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in the city's Lawrenceville section, not far from the owner and founder of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Gus Greenlee.
		Paige, Gibson, Leonard, Bell, Johnson and Charleston were five of the first six Negro League stars to be enshrined in Cooperstown.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06192/701548-341.stm (531 words)

	Blackbaseball.com :: Negro Baseball Leagues :: Josh Gibson
		He awaited the pitch in a semi-crouched, flat-footed stance, and without striding generated a compact swing that produced tape-measure home runs with such regularity that it came to be expected as the norm.
		Always affable and easy going, Gibson was well liked and respected by his peers, His popularity extended to the fans, and he was voted to start in nine East-West All-Star games, in which he compiled a sensational.483 batting average.
		Unfortunately, the major leagues were never afforded the opportunity to witness Josh Gibson's greatness, for on January 20, 1947, he died a premature death only a month after his 35th birthday and just a few months prior to Jackie Robinson's becoming the first fl major leaguer in over a half century.
	www.blackbaseball.com /players/joshgibson.htm (312 words)

	African American Registry: Josh Gibson, one of baseball's greatest hitters!
		Joshua Gibson was born in Buena Vista, Georgia, and moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a child.
		The Grays called Gibson out of the stands to catch and he was on the team.
		Josh Gibson died on January 20th 1947 in Pittsburgh.
	www.aaregistry.com /detail.php3?id=1346 (225 words)

	Amazon.com: Josh Gibson: Books: William Brashler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Though records are sketchy, Gibson is reported to have hit as many as 70 homeruns in a single season and it can safely be assumed that he hit more than 800 round trippers in his career.
		Josh Gibson was a man driven by deamons, the tragic death of his wife made him incapable of letting his emotions go.
		Josh Gibson was a great baseball player in the 30s and 40s in the Negro Leagues.
	www.amazon.com /Josh-Gibson-William-Brashler/dp/1566632951 (1787 words)

	Josh Gibson Jr. -- Son of Negro League HOFer
		Josh Gibson Jr., a former Negro League player and the son of Hall of Famer Josh Gibson, died on Sept. 10, 2003 in Pittsburgh, Penn. He was 73.
		Josh Gibson did not want his son to play baseball because of the prejudice that faced minority players.
		He teamed with his grandson, Sean, and other family members to form the Josh Gibson Foundation in 1994.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/g/gibson_jr_josh.html (269 words)

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