Oscar McKinley Charleston was an American center fielder and manager in Negro League Baseball. Charleston was born on October 14, 1896, in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was a construction worker and his mother's father was a carpenter who had been employed in the construction of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston was the seventh of […]
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