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Quincy Trouppe

American baseball player (1912–1993)

Summary

American baseball player (1912–1993)

Field	Value
name	Quincy Trouppe
image	Quincy Trouppe.jpg
position	Catcher
bats	Right
throws	Right
birth_date
birth_place	Dublin, Georgia, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Creve Coeur, Missouri, U.S.
debutleague	NgL
debutyear	1930
debutteam	St. Louis Stars
debut2league	MLB
debut2year	April 30, 1952
debut2team	Cleveland Indians
finalyear	May 10, 1952
finalteam	Cleveland Indians
stat1label	Batting average
stat1value	.259
stat2label	Hits
stat2value	127
stat3label	Home runs
stat3value	6
stat4label	Runs batted in
stat4value	73
stat5label	Stolen bases
stat5value	7
stat6label	Managerial record
stat6value	174–140–8

Negro leagues

St. Louis Stars (–)
Kansas City Monarchs (, )
Homestead Grays ()
Detroit Wolves ()
Chicago American Giants ()
Bismarck Churchills ()
Indianapolis ABC's/St. Louis Stars ()
Cleveland Buckeyes (–)
Chicago American Giants () Major League Baseball
Cleveland Indians ()
8× All-Star (1938, 1945, 1946–1948²)
Negro World Series champion (1945)

Quincy Thomas Trouppe (December 25, 1912 – August 10, 1993) was an American professional baseball player and an amateur boxing champion. He was a catcher in the Negro leagues from 1930 to 1949. He was a native of Dublin, Georgia.

Early life

He was born Quincy Thomas Troupe on December 25, 1912. He later changed the spelling to Trouppe in 1946.

Career

He also played in the Mexican League, and the Canadian Provincial League. His teams included St. Louis Stars, Detroit Wolves, Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABC's/St. Louis Stars, Cleveland Buckeyes (whom he managed to Negro American League titles in 1945 and 1947), New York Cubans, and Bismarcks (a/k/a Bismarck Churchills). He played in Latin America for fourteen winter seasons and barnstormed with black all-star teams playing against white major league players. He managed the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican winter league, winning the 1947-48 season championship.

Trouppe caught six games for the 1952 Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball and made 84 appearances with their Triple-A farm club. When he made his major league debut on April 30, 1952 at Shibe Park he became one of the oldest rookies in MLB history. He was 39 years old. On May 3, he was behind the plate when relief pitcher "Toothpick Sam" Jones entered the game, forming the first black battery in American League history. Trouppe played his last game for the Indians on May 10. In his short stint with Cleveland he was 1-for-10 with a single (off Tommy Byrne of the St. Louis Browns in his last major league game), a walk and a run scored. He handled 25 chances in the field flawlessly for a fielding percentage of 1.000.

He died at the age of 80 in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

Managerial record

Year	Regular season	Postseason	Games	Won	Lost	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost
95	67	25		1st in NAL	4	0	1.000	Won Negro World Series (HG)
79	36	40		3rd in NAL	–	–	–	–
70	42	25		1st in NAL	1	4	.200	Lost Negro World Series (NYC)
78		27	50		5th in NAL	–	–	–	–

Bibliography

Trouppe, Quincy. 20 Years Too Soon (1977). Autobiography

References

"Quincy Trouppe – Society for American Baseball Research".
Revel, Layton & Luis Munoz. "Forgotten Heroes: Pedro Anibal "Perucho" Cepeda". Center for Negro League Baseball Research.
[https://baseballbiography.com/quincy-trouppe Kleinknecht, Merl F. 'Quincy Trouppe', ''Baseball Library'' (2002)] {{webarchive. link. (November 23, 2005 Retrieved July 25, 2005.)

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