Negro League Baseball Player, 1946-1950

(1931-2020) Born in Macon, Georgia, on June 22, 1931, Scott played 4 seasons as a pitcher in the Negro League as a member of the New York Black Yankees. Nicknamed, "Bob," he debuted as a sixteen year old rookie in 1946, and played through the 1950 season. He was selected by the New York Mets, in 2008, in Major League Baseball's special draft to honor former players of the Negro Baseball Leagues, and was honored by the Atlanta Braves in a special ceremony at Turner Field, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2016. Robert Scott was inducted into the Macon Sports Hall of Fame in 2017, and he died on October 11, 2020, in Macon, at the age of 89. Highlights of his major league career include playing with the "Jackie Robinson All-Stars," receiving an award from both the New York Yankees, and New York Mets of MLB, and having his photograph hung in the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York.

Signed Photograph: 8 x 10, color photograph of Scott in a pitching motion wearing his Yankees uniform, with the interlocking "NY" on his baseball cap, and a beautiful, large, bold blue ink signature, "Robert Scott, New York Black Yankees, 1946-50." Choice condition.

Trivia: The New York Black Yankees played their home games at Hinchliffe Stadium, in Paterson, New Jersey, from 1933 to 1938 (a field I have pitched on, and played baseball, and football on); they had no primary home ballpark in 1939 and 1940; from 1940 to 1947, they played at Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, New York, and afterwards they played at Red Wing Stadium, in Rochester, New York.