Cumberland Posey began his career in 1911 playing outfield for the
Homestead Grays, a local black team in his Pennsylvania hometown.
He soon became the squad's driving force as they dominated semi-pro
ball in the Pittsburgh area. By the late 1930s the Grays were at
the top of the Negro Leagues with nine straight pennant wins. Posey
was also a League officer; he served 13 years as the first black
member of the Homestead school board; and he wrote an outspoken
sports column for the African American weekly, the Pittsburgh
Courier. He was regarded as one of the best black basketball
players in the East; he was the organizer of a team that held the
consensus national black championship five years running. Ten years
after his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he
became a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame-one of only two athletes to be honored by two pro sports
halls.
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