Seattle baseball fans bid farewell to Herb Simpson, the last of the Seattle Steelheads Negro League entry, who died last week in New Orleans at 94.
Author: Ryan Whirty
Ryan Whirty
Ryan Whirty is an award-winning freelance journalist and member of the Society for American Baseball Research. He can be reached at rwhirty218@yahoo.com, and his blog on the Negro Leagues is at homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com.
The first African-American pro baseball player wasn’t Jackie Robinson. Mariners third-base coach Rich Donnelly knows all about his fellow Steubenville, Ohio, alum.
Herb Simpson, 93, returns this weekend to Seattle, where he played for the Negro Leagues’ Steelheads for their two-month lives in 1946.