Today I want to tell you about another great man that was in black baseball name Rube Foster. While he was known for his fastball, Rube was also credited with the invention of the screwball. He taught Christy Mathewson how to throw a screwball. Rube Foster seemed very brilliant. He owned, founded, and managed the Chicago American Giants, one of the most successful black baseball teams of the pre-integration era. Foster was considered by historians perhaps the best African American pitcher of the first decade of the 1900s.

It was 1920 that foster owned and managed manager of the Chicago American Giants organize the Negro National League which became the first stable and financially successful black baseball league.

In 1981, Foster was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was the first representative of the Negro Leagues elected as a pioneer or executive.

It was sad how Rube Foster died. It is said that he was asphyxiated by a gas leak. He was not quite the same. He had to be institutionalized. He died in an insane asylume in Kankake, Illinois. Many speculate that the gas leak was to take Rube out. The great Andrew Rube Foster.

I haven't seen any films on Rufus the talking or being interviewed but there is one quote I've read by Rube Foster.

He said: Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and Iconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

Rube Foster died Dec.9,1930 at the age of 51.