Robert Paul Gilkerson (February 10, 1886 – March 21, 1944) was an American Negro league second baseman in the 1900s and 1910s, and later owner of the eponymous Gilkerson's Union Giants club.

A native of Newtown, Virginia, Gilkerson played for the Illinois Giants in 1909, and for the Leland Giants in 1913.

[1][2] In 1917, he bought W. S. Peters' Chicago baseball club, and ran his barnstorming Gilkerson's Union Giants through the 1930s.

[3] Gilkerson died in Spring Valley, Illinois in 1944 at age 58.

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