![]() ![]() Other assignments have been at Liberty High School in Bakersfield, CA., Buena High School in Ventura, CA., and Taft College in Taft, CA. Gentry's other coaching assignments have been as Head Coach at Bakersfield Christian High School, where he was selected as a CIF Central Section 2005 Coach of the Year and built the schools baseball program from the ground up. A former NCAA D-1 coach at California State University Bakersfield, and the former Senior Director of Baseball and Ballpark Operations, Assistant to the General Manager for the Texas Rangers in the Cal League. Gentry has held Asc Scouting assignments with the Pirates, Giants and Cardinals, as well as being the Head Coach and Program Director for the Pacific Stars Scout Team, SoCal Giants Scout Team, and SoCal Cardinals Scout Team. Pro Player Academy of Baseball owner/founder Bill Gentry is a baseball professional as well as a Certified Fitness Trainer, and a Certified Life Coach. Joining Fowler in the class of 2022 was fellow-Early Baseball Era committee selection, Buck O’Neil, along with Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso and Tony Oliva, who were all elected by the hall's Golden Days Era committee, and David Ortiz, who was elected in January by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.Bill Gentry - Baseball Professional, Professional Coach, Scout, Author and Speaker : But you’ll have to understand his entire career as a stellar ballplayer, equal to and better than others of his time, who gained recognition and notoriety for his play on the field and beyond.” “Much of his statistical record has been lost to time. “When it’s all said and done, you cannot think of Bud Fowler in statistics alone,” Winfield said of Fowler during the ceremony Sunday. They were whiter than I am, and always passed for white men.”Īccording to the hall’s website, Fowler helped form the Page Fence Giants with Grant “Home Run” Johnson, which were regarded as one of the greatest barnstorming Black clubs of all time. There are three of four professional players – some of them have been in the league – who are colored me. ![]() The race prejudice is so strong that my black skinned barred me. “If I had not been quite so black, I might have caught on as a Spaniard or something of that kind. “My skin is against me,” Fowler told a Chicago reporter in 1896. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ July 12, 2022įowler never played in the major leagues, with only three Black players, William Edward White (1879) and brothers Moses Fleetwood and Welday Walker (both 1884), appearing in the majors before baseball’s color line was firmly established by the end of the 19th century. To learn more about Fowler's contribution to the game, head on over to Cooperstown! Leading off our unveiling of the 2022 Hall of Fame Inductee exhibit is Bud Fowler. ![]() The nomadic Fowler played for multiple clubs from the 1870s to 1890s, including teams from as far east as Vermont and Massachusetts, to northern squads in Ontario, Michigan and Minnesota, to western leagues in Nebraska and New Mexico.ĭue to the color of his skin, Fowler rarely stayed in one place for too long, as evidenced by an exhibit in Cooperstown detailing his travels across the U.S. Jackson Jr., but was known as Bud Fowler throughout his professional career. Though Fowler was born in Fort Plain in Montgomery County, he grew up in the village of Cooperstown long before it became known as baseball’s symbolic birthplace.įowler, who died in 1913 in Frankfort, in Herkimer County, was represented by Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, who spoke on behalf of the legendary ballplayer.Ī pitcher and second baseman, Fowler was born John W. Bud Fowler, recognized by many historians as the first Black professional baseball player, was honored on Sunday in Cooperstown - the place he once called home - as he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ![]()
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