Andy Cooper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Negro league baseball pitcher
Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1898
Place of Birth: Waco, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 03-Jun-1941
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Andy Cooper
- Andrew Lewis Cooper (April 24, 1898 – June 3, 1941), nicknamed "Lefty", was an American left-handed pitcher in baseball's Negro Leagues.
- He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
- An alumnus of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Cooper played nine seasons for the Detroit Stars and ten seasons for the Kansas City Monarchs.
- The Texan was 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall and weighed 220 pounds (100 kg; 16 st). In defiance of a threatened five-year Negro league ban for contract jumping, Cooper joined a 1927 barnstorming team that toured Hawaii and Japan.
- He spent most of his later career with the Monarchs.
- Cooper is the Negro league record holder for career saves.
- In a 1937 playoff game, he pitched 17 innings.
- Cooper served as manager or player-manager for the Monarchs from 1937 to 1940, leading the team to the pennant three times during those four seasons.
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