[2] He is credited with a single game at left field for the Birmingham Black Barons in 1941 in which he was 0 for 4 with a walk and a run scored.

[3] Welch received his first managing job when he was named player-manager of the New Orleans Black Pelicans in 1930, a team that was playing in the minor Texas-Louisiana Negro League.

As manager of the Acme Giants, Welch employed a young first baseman named Buck O'Neil, who would later go on to a managerial career of his own.

[4] In 1941, he was hired by Abe Saperstein as manager for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League,[5] a post he held from 1941 to 1945 that included consecutive pennants in 1943 and 1944.

[2] Several years later in 1958, the Philadelphia Phillies hired Welch as a full time scout,[11] later assuming duties for the entire South in 1961.