Rube Foster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1879
Place of Birth: Calvert, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 09-Dec-1930
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Rube Foster
- 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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