O'Neal Pullen

Biography

O'Neal Pullen (September 8, 1892 – April 19, 1944) was an American Negro league catcher for the Brooklyn Royal Giants and Baltimore Black Sox in the early 1920s. A native of Beaumont, Texas, Pullen served in the US Army in France in the 509th Colored Engineers battalion during World War I. He began his Negro leagues career in 1920 with the Brooklyn Royal Giants, and later played for the Baltimore Black Sox. Pullen spent the majority of his professional baseball career in the integrated California Winter League, and also was one of the first American baseball professionals to tour Japan.

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