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	Rube Foster - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Andrew Foster was born in Calvert, Texas, and by the time he was a teenager he had become a successful pitcher in the Negro Leagues.
		Foster played for and managed the team until 1915, when he retired as a player but continued to manage.
		Foster was chosen as the league's president and secretary.
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	Rube Foster \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Foster overcame childhood illness to become an outstanding pitcher, a shrewd manager, and the dominant executive in fl baseball.
		He reportedly gained his nickname by defeating the Athletics' Rube Waddell in 1902, and is reputed to have fared well in duels with major league pitchers Chief Bender, Mordecai Brown, and Cy Young.
		Foster's last known public meeting was in 1926 with lifelong friends Ban Johnson and John McGraw, through whom it is believed he was trying to schedule white major league teams to play his American Giants.
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	Andrew Rube Foster, Father of Negro League Baseball
		Andrew (Rube) Foster was a great pitcher in his prime, but he is not generally remembered for his arm.
		Rube is the man that organized the first fl baseball league, the Negro National League.
		Rube Foster was finally recognized for his priceless achievements when he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.
	www.nlbpa.com /foster__andrew_-_rube.html (280 words)

	Blackbaseball.com :: Negro Baseball Leagues :: Rube Foster
		Rube Foster covered the entire spectrum of baseball and excelled at each phase of his participation.
		Rube's keen mind and ability to handle men naturally lent itself to achieving the next sequential step in his expanding perimeter of involvement.
		In 1910 Rube assembled a team he considered to be the greatest baseball talent ever assembled.
	www.blackbaseball.com /players/rubefoster.htm (469 words)

	Andrew "Rube" Foster: A Baseball Legend
		Rube Foster left school after the eighth grade to become a ballplayer but was limited to all-fl teams, because the major and minor leagues were segregated after 1898.
		In 1910 Foster gained control of the Leland Giants, in partnership with white saloonkeeper John Schorling.
		In 1926 Foster suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an insane asylum.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2406.html (262 words)

	Rube Foster - SoSH \| Boston Red Sox \| Red Sox Rumors \| Spring Training \| Pawtucket Red Sox
		George "Rube" Foster was born on January 5, 1888, in Lehigh, Oklahoma.
		Foster was 25 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 10, 1913, with the Boston Red Sox.
		May 26, 1914: Rube Foster's string of 42 consecutive scoreless innings is stopped by Cleveland in the 5th inning.
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	Rube Foster history and biographical information
		Andrew "Rube" Foster, a highly successful fl businessman, coincidentally began forming the Negro National Baseball League in Chicago, the year of the riots.
		As many of Foster's stars were lured away by the Eastern League for better pay, Foster held on but the strain became too much for him.
		In 1926, Foster was institutionalized fragile and delusional in believing he was going to throw out the first pitch of the white World Series.
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	Amazon.ca: The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant: Books: Robert Charles Cottrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest fl heroes was at last firmly established.
		Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary fl baseball teamsthe Cuban X-Giants and the Philadelphia Giants before becoming player-manager of the Leland Giants and the Chicago American Giants.
		Rube Foster-what an amazing man! Dr. Robert Cottrell's impeccably researched biography gives us insight into the evolution of an outstanding athlete, coach, manager, businessman, visionary, and co-founder of the Negro Leagues.
	www.amazon.ca /Best-Pitcher-Baseball-Foster-League/dp/0814716148 (1044 words)

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		Foster was known for his pitching wiles, even at an early age.
		After the 1906 season Foster was upset by the size of the players' cut of the team's postseason winnings, and he quit the Athletics, basically taking the whole team with him.
		One of Foster's first acts as president was to return his star player, Oscar Charleston, to Indianapolis, the team from which Charleston had jumped to the Giants.
	www.mrbaseball.com /rubefoster_spot.php (1760 words)

	The Forgotten Leagues by DMD
		Rube Foster capitalized on fl Chicago’s growth and prosperity, using baseball savvy, business accumen, and a forceful personality to build the greatest sporting institution that fl America had ever seen.
		Foster had thus been a dominant force in fl baseball for a full decade by the time of his Bismarkian deed of unifying the Midwest’s strongest African-American teams into one great fl league.
		Foster’s teams were famous for their pitching and defense, and their speed and guile.
	www.theforgottenleagues.com /c_a_giants.htm (693 words)

	Texas Baseball Hall of Fame - Rube Foster Bio
		Foster supposedly taught young Christy Mathewson how to throw his famous fadeaway pitch, the pitch that Christy then rode to the Hall of Fame.
		Arthur Hardy, a pitcher for Foster, once said, “Rube wasn’t harsh, but he was strict.” Managers from the white big leagues commonly came to learn strategy by watching Foster at work.
		The slogan on the NNL letterhead read, “We are the ship, all else the sea.” Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.
	www.tbhof.org /bio/2004/biofoster.htm (275 words)

	Baseball . Shadow Ball . Buck O'Neil Interview \| PBS
		Rube was a great organizer and Rube wanted to put not just a team in organized baseball.
		Rube wanted all of the guys that could play to have a chance to play in organized baseball.
		Rube Foster was thinking about this before I was born.
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	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Andrew (Rube) Foster, founder of the Negro baseball leagues and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, was born in Calvert, Texas, on September 17, 1879, the son of Andrew and Sarah Foster.
		Foster began a barnstorming career at age seventeen pitching with the traveling Waco Yellow Jackets.
		Foster's Chicago American Giants were the most prominent team in the early years of the league.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffo35.html (420 words)

	Willie Foster/Pitch Black Negro League site
		Willie was the half-brother of Negro League founder Rube Foster, and considered the best lefthanded pitcher in Negro League history.
		Foster was a stylish lefty in the mold of Warren Spahn, with a hopping fastball, a "12 to 6 o'clock curve," a straight change, and great control.
		Foster had many season with 20 victories and a few with 30.
	www.pitchblackbaseball.com /nlotmbillfoster.html (227 words)

	William Foster
		Though Foster played briefly with the Memphis Red Sox and a variety of other teams, he spent ten years in the service of his brother's American Giants.
		After his retirement from baseball Foster pursued various coaching positions, ultimately landing the post of head baseball coach and dean of men at his alma mater, Alcorn College in Mississippi.
		Foster was elected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame in March, 1996 and will be inducted later this year.
	www.negroleaguebaseball.com /players/Foster.html (342 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Who's the goat now?
		Rube pitched for assorted independent fl ball clubs, including one in Philly, for whom he won 45 games.
		The Curse of Rube Foster lives on as Wrigley is quiet for yet another October.
		But Rube Foster still had the whole of the South Side of Chicago, and other sides of towns all across America, to work with.
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	Rube Foster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the former Boston Red Sox pitcher from the early 20th century, see Rube Foster (AL pitcher).
		As a manager and team owner, Foster was a disciplinarian.
		Given Schorling Park's huge dimensions, Foster developed a style of play that emphasized speed, bunting, place hitting, power pitching, and defense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rube_Foster (1520 words)

	Rube Foster - BR Bullpen
		For the pitcher named George "Rube" Foster who played from 1913 to 1917, click here.
		The stepbrother of Bill Foster, Rube Foster was a pitcher, manager, and executive in the Negro Leagues.
		Quote: "(Foster is) the most finished product I've ever seen in the pitcher's box." Frank Chance.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Rube_Foster (154 words)

	Rube Foster
		Andrew "Rube" Foster earned the title, "Father of Black Baseball." Foster formed the Negro National League, consisting of eight teams, with 7 fl owners.
		Foster, had a dream, which he instilled into the minds of his players.
		He always wanted them to play at a high level of excellence so they would be ready for integration when it finally came.
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	Chicago American Giants
		The Chicago American Giants were owned and managed by Rube Foster from 1911-1926.
		Managed by Foster’s protégé, Dave Malarcher, they beat the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City in the Colored World Series in 1926 and 1927.
		On the roster in the ‘20s were Rube Foster’s brother, left-handed pitcher Willie Foster, "Colonel" Jimmie Crutchfield and Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe.
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	Rube Foster (AL pitcher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the former Boston Red Sox pitcher from the early 20th century.
		For former Negro Leagues player, manager and executive, see Rube Foster.
		Rube Foster refused to report to his new team and so the Red Sox sent cash to the Reds to complete the trade.
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	Willie Foster - Moviefone
		A half-brother of the famous Rube Foster, Willie Foster was the greatest left-handed pitcher from the Negro Leagues.
		Willie James Foster, known around his home of Greenville, Mississippi as the...
		Willie Foster was born Sept. 19, 1921 on a cotton sack four miles east of...
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	RUBE FOSTER
		Although an outstanding player, a dependable team owner and a brilliant manager, perhaps Rube Fosters most impressive fulfillment was the creation of the Negro National League (NNL) in Kansas City (1920).
		Foster was able to accomplishment, what other fl entrepreneurs were unable to achieve in 1887, 1906 and more recently in 1911.
		From Chicago, Foster ran the NNL as anemperor.
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	Sim Dynasty.com
		The Chicago Black Crackers have promoted Rube Foster to the major league team.
		The Chicago Black Crackers have sent Rube Foster to the minors.
		The Chicago Black Crackers have sent Rube Waddell to the minors.
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	Rube Foster \| National Baseball Hall of Fame
		A player, manager, owner, commissioner and unsurpassed visionary, Rube Foster was one of baseball's greatest Renaissance men.
		In his youth, Foster was a star pitcher of the dead ball era, and later as owner-manager of the Chicago American Giants, the burly Texan instilled in his players the daring, aggressive, yet disciplined style of play for which the Negro leagues became famous.
		Tell someone about Rube Foster by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/Foster_Rube.htm (207 words)

	Rube Foster - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rube Foster - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Foster, Norman Robert, Lord Foster of Thames Bank, born in 1935, British architect who received the Pritzker Prize, one of the most prestigious...
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	Amazon.com: "Rube Foster": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		INTRODUCTION Rube Foster, it can readily be argued, was fl baseball's greatest fig- ure, although many claim that distinction for Jackie Robinson, who...
		INTRODUCTION Rube Foster, it can readily be argued, was fl baseballs greatest figure, although many claim that distinction for Jackie Robinson, who played...
		This was Andrew "Rube" Foster, whose legend already preceded him by 1920.
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	Foster
		In 1920 Foster created the Negro National League with several other owners.
		The NNL placed fl baseball on a solid footing and gained Foster the
		In 1981 Rube Foster was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
	www.chicagotribute.org /Markers/Foster.htm (183 words)

	Bill Rhoden Resurrects Rube Foster For New Century
		African American Rube Foster way back at the beginning of the 20th century may well have better understood American society than any other African, certainly any African in America in Sports.
		Is certainly not to summarize all that Rhoden has to say about Foster who he basically devotes a chapter to, and then continues to reference him - not to give anyone one less reason to go out and but this amazing book.
		Without any Rube Fosters to portray today serves to emphasize that much more Rube Foster's significance.
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