Talk:Eddie Logan

Question about Negro Leagues service

There has been considerable scholarly research into the Negro Leagues over the last three decades, much of it compiling rosters and individual records. In the years before such research was done, many claimed to play for one of the great teams, but were found to be in error. Frequently they played for a semi-pro team that played against one of those teams, or played on a team in a lower league than the top Negro Leagues. It may well be the case here.

Eddie Logan shows up on no rosters in the 1920s and 1930s on any team, particularly the Kansas City Monarchs and Homestead Grays, for which he claimed to have played sometime during those decades. One of Mr. Logan's specific claims was that he caught Satchel Paige in Paige's prime. Paige first pitched for the Monarchs in 1935 and 1936 (Mr. Logan said he played in the "late 20s and/or early 30s), when the team's starting catchers were T.J. Young and Quincy Trouppe, respectively. Mr. Logan does not appear on the roster. Paige never pitched for the Homestead Grays, so a Paige/Logan battery could have never happened with the Grays.

I can find no evidence of anyone matching him in the Negro Leagues, either through the rosters published in The Negro Leagues Book, The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Leagues, or The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues, the three best sources for such information for such information; he was not among those former Negro Leaguers symbolically "drafted" by MLB teams; he is not listed by the Negro League Baseball Players Association, nor by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Absent any documentation, I believe that categorizing Mr. Logan as a Negro League player is incorrect. -- Couillaud (talk) 08:13, 1 February 2009 (UTC)