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Title
The John Henry "Pop" Lloyd Committee
Description
In 1938, a St. Louis sportswriter, asked to name the best player in baseball history, said,"If you mean in organized baseball, my answer would be Babe Ruth: but if you mean in all of baseball, my answer would have to be an Atlantic City colored man named John Henry Lloyd. "
Lloyd played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues from 1906 to 1932, including two stints with the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City. In 1910 he out-hit Ty Cobb in a Cuban winter league series, .500 to .385. His lifetime average of .368 is a point higher than Cobb's.
Lloyd was also a great teacher of baseball to young players. Countless Atlantic City kids learned about baseball and life from Lloyd, many of them when he filled the post of Little League Commissioner later in life.
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