Rube Foster

Rube Foster
Rube Foster
	Pitcher / Manager / Owner
	Born: September 17, 1879; Calvert, Texas, U.S.
	Died: December 9, 1930 (aged 51); Kankakee, Illinois, U.S.
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
Negro leagues debut
	1902, Chicago Union Giants
Last appearance
	1917, Chicago American Giants
Career statistics
Managerial record	336–195–11
Teams
	As Player; Chicago Union Giants (1902); Cuban X-Giants (1903); Philadelphia Giants (1904–1906); Leland Giants (1907–1910); Chicago American Giants (1911–1917); Louisville White Sox (1914); As Manager; Leland Giants (1907–1910); Chicago American Giants (1911–1926) ; Louisville White Sox (1914);
Career highlights and awards
	4× Negro National League pennant (1920–1922, 1926);
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1981
Election method	Veterans Committee

Andrew "Rube" Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.

Foster, considered by historians to have been perhaps the best African-American pitcher of the first decade of the 1900s, also founded and managed the Chicago American Giants, one of the most successful black baseball teams of the pre-integration era. Most notably, he organized the Negro National League, the first long-lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers, which operated from 1920 to 1931. He is known as the "father of Black Baseball."

Foster adopted his longtime nickname, "Rube", as his official middle name later in life.

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