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Cecil Kaiser (June 27, 1916 in New York, New York, USA〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cecil Kaiser: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum )〕 – February 14, 2011 in Michigan, USA) was a Negro league baseball pitcher, outfielder, and first baseman. In the course of his career Kaiser played for the Detroit Stars, the Motor City Giants, the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords and on various Latin American and Canadian teams. With the Homestead Grays he played with great players such as hall of famers Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell. He started his career as a 5-foot-6, 165-pound outfielder. He eventually became a left-handed pitcher after his team suffered a series of injuries. He was known as a strikeout pitcher with a good fastball and an assortment of off-speed pitches. He was nicknamed the "Minute Man" as it took him about one minute to strike out batters and as the "Aspirin Tablet Man" for throwing pitches that resembled aspirin tablets. During perhaps his best season, the winter ball season of 1949-1950, he posted a league-leading 1.68 ERA in the Puerto Rican League.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary: Cecil Kaiser )〕 Kaiser died after a fall at his home in Southfield, Michigan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former Negro Leaguers star Kaiser dies at 94 )〕 It is believed that he may have been the oldest living Negro League player still alive at the time of his death. ==References== Born in Virginia about 1921 according to 1930 United States Federal census and his daughter Beatrice Brooks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cecil Kaiser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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