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Dusty Decker

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Dusty Decker
Shortstop
Born: (1911-10-19)October 19, 1911
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Died: October 11, 1962(1962-10-11) (aged 50)
Evansville, Indiana
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Unknown
Negro league baseball debut
1932, for the Indianapolis ABCs
Last appearance
1937, for the Detroit Stars
Teams

Charles Edward "Dusty" Decker (October 19, 1911 – October 11, 1962) was an American baseball shortstop in the Negro leagues.[1] He played with the Indianapolis ABCs and Montgomery Grey Sox in 1932 and the Detroit Stars.[2]

Early life and career

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Charles Edward Decker was born on October 19, 1911, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the oldest of two sons born to Edward Decker and Inez Caldwell.[3] Approximately one month later, the family moved to Evansville, Indiana.

Decker graduated from Frederick Douglass High School before briefly attending Fisk University in 1928. The following two years, he majored in physical education at Lincoln University while winning All-Midwestern honors as quarterback for the Blue Tigers,[4] acquiring an alternate nickname, "The Human Catapult", in the process.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
  2. ^ "Dusty Decker Seamheads Profile". seamheads.com. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  3. ^ Decker, Charles Edward. Notable Kentucky African Americans Database. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  4. ^ Recorder staff (April 19, 1947). "Indiana Legislators 'Open the Door'; March of Progress; State Legislators Make History in Ind. Assembly; Rep. Chas. E. Decker". Indianapolis Recorder. p. 9. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  5. ^ Courier staff (October 11, 1930). "Missouri Classic Attracts". The Pittsburgh Courier. p. 14. Retrieved July 8, 2021.

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