Bill Foster Essentials Positions: Bats: B Throws: L Weight: 195 Born: Year: 1904 in Calvert, TX USA Died: 9 16 1978 in Lorman, MS USA Debut: Last Game: Hall of Fame: Inducted as a Player in 1996 by Veterans Full Name: William Hendrick Foster
Jim Bunning, Earl Weaver, Bill Foster, and Ned Hanlon are inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame.
1996 – The Veterans Committee elects four new members for the Hall of Fame, and just misses naming a fifth. The group elected includes fiery manager Earl Weaver, who had a .583 winning percentage in 17 seasons managing the Baltimore Orioles; pitcher Jim Bunning, who won 100 games in both leagues, including no-hitters in each circuit, one of them a perfect game; 19th-century manager Ned Hanlon, who won five National League pennants with the Baltimore Orioles (3) and Brooklyn (2), and Bill Foster, the top left-handed pitcher in the Negro Leagues. Nellie Fox receives the necessary 75% of the Committee’s votes, but the rules allow just one modern player elected, and Bunning has more votes.
On September 10, 1933, the first East-West All-Star Game in the history of the Negro Leagues is played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. Future Hall of Famer Willie Foster notches a complete game in earning an 11-7 win for the West. Mule Suttles hits the games only homerun. Comiskey was the site of the first major…