Joe Spencer (baseball)

Joseph Beverly Spencer Jr. (August 4, 1919 – May 17, 2003) was an American Negro league second baseman in the 1940s.

[1] He made his Negro leagues debut in 1942 with the Birmingham Black Barons, and played for the Homestead Grays during their Negro World Series championship 1943 and 1944 seasons.

[2] In 1946, he played for the Seattle Steelheads of the short-lived West Coast Negro Baseball Association,[3] and finished his Negro league career with the New York Black Yankees in 1947 and 1948.

[4] Spencer died in Gretna in 2003 at age 83.

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