Pearl Webster

Pearl Webster
Catcher/First baseman
Born: July 8, 1889 Wayland, Missouri
Died: September 16, 1918 (aged 29) France
Batted: Left Threw: Right
Negro league baseball debut
1913, for the Brooklyn Royal Giants
Last appearance
1918, for the Bacharach Giants
Teams
Brooklyn Royal Giants (1913-1914, 1916-1917)[1] Lincoln Stars (1914, 1917) St. Louis Giants (1915) Breakers Hotel (1915-1916)[2] Hilldale Club (1918) [3] Grand Central Red Caps (1918) Bacharach Giants (1918)

Pearl F. "Specks" Webster (July 8, 1889 – November 16, 1918) was an American baseball catcher and first baseman in the Negro Leagues. He played from 1914 to 1918 with several teams.^[4]

In 1918, while playing for the Hilldale Club, Webster was drafted into the Army in Class 1-A. ^[5]

He died of the Spanish flu pandemic while serving in the United States Army during World War I.

References

1. "Brooklyn Giants Win" The Washington Herald, Washington, DC, Thursday, May 8, 1913, Page 8, Column 3
2. "Palm Beach Weekly Review" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, February 19, 1916, Page 5, Columns 5 to 7
3. "Hilldale Again" Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, June 30, 1918, Page 20, Column 2
4. Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
5. "Santop, Williams and Tom Williams" Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, July 17, 1918, Page 11, Column 3

External links

• Negro league baseball statistics and player information from Seamheads.com, or Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)