They played as a traveling team, which resulted in two last place finishes in their first two seasons as founding members of the Negro National League.

Rube Foster of the Chicago American Giants decided to purchase him for his team after the 1921 season.

Beckwith served as a pitcher on five occasions (with one start), throwing 22.1 total innings and allowing eight runs.

Beckwith ranked among the Negro leagues' career leaders in batting average, home runs, RBI and slugging percentage (.583).

Pitcher Scrip Lee, who faced both men, declared that "Babe Ruth and Beckwith were about equal in power."

The legendary Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe claimed that "nobody hit the ball any farther than [Beckwith]—Josh Gibson or nobody else."

Beckwith, who Turkey Stearnes called "one of my favorite ballplayers," made his last known Negro league appearance in 1938.