Bob Clarke (baseball)

As manager Robert Alfred Clarke (January 8, 1903 – January 1971), nicknamed "Eggie", was an American Negro league catcher and manager from the 1920s through the 1940s.

[1][2] In 1923, he joined the Baltimore Black Sox, and played for the club through 1932.

From 1933 to 1940, Clarke played for the New York Black Yankees, serving as player-manager in 1936 and 1937,[3] and being selected to the East–West All-Star Game in 1940.

[4] He spent 1941 through 1946 with the Baltimore Elite Giants, and finished his career with a short return stint with the Black Yankees in 1948.

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