{"id":47689,"date":"2016-06-16T20:08:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47689"},"modified":"2016-06-19T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T18:32:28","slug":"former-duquesne-penn-state-athlete-cumberland-posey-elected-to-basketball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47689","title":{"rendered":"Former Duquesne, Penn State athlete Cumberland Posey elected to Basketball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Duquesne, Penn State athlete Cumberland Posey elected to Basketball Hall of Fame<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>
\n2016-04-05<\/p>\n

Stephen J. Nesbitt<\/strong><\/a>, Beat Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nCourtesy of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Will become only person inducted into both professional basketball, baseball halls of fame<\/em><\/p>\n

The grass-roots campaign to get Cumberland \u201cCum\u201d Posey<\/a> enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame<\/a> began one day in 2002 when two men met at a Starbucks in Pittsburgh<\/a> and drafted a plan to unearth the story of one of the best athletes the area has seen.<\/p>\n

On Monday, 14 years later, Claude Johnson<\/a> and Rob Ruck<\/a> were together again to celebrate the campaign\u2019s joyous conclusion. Mr. Posey will be inducted in September, the hall announced.<\/p>\n

Mr. Posey, who was born in Homestead<\/a> in 1890 and died in 1946, was the first black athlete at Penn State and Duquesne<\/a> and was a player, manager and owner of the Homestead Grays<\/a> baseball team. He will be the first to be voted into both the professional basketball and baseball halls of fame.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we honor a man who could be called Pittsburgh\u2019s forgotten champion,\u201d said Duquesne president Charles Dougherty<\/a> at a ceremony Monday night on Duquesne\u2019s campus, with a number of Mr. Posey\u2019s descendants in attendance.<\/p>\n

Mr. Posey is best known for helping build the Grays into a national power, and his basketball prowess seemed lost to history until Mr. Ruck, a history professor at Pitt, wrote the book \u201cSandlot Seasons,\u201d which told of prominent people and places in Pittsburgh\u2019s black sports history…<\/p>\n

…While leading Duquesne in scoring every season from 1916-18, Mr. Posey played under the alias \u201cCharles Cumbert.\u201d There are a few theories as to why \u2014 eligibility concerns is one \u2014 but Mr. Johnson said Mr. Posey tried passing as white<\/a> because opponents would refuse to play a black person…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Duquesne, Penn State athlete Cumberland Posey elected to Basketball Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2016-04-05 Stephen J. Nesbitt, Beat Writer Courtesy of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y. Will become only person inducted into both professional basketball, baseball halls of fame The grass-roots campaign to get Cumberland \u201cCum\u201d Posey enshrined in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20],"tags":[7947,11052,24136,24137,24134,24127,24129,24128,15631,4889,24133,9457,24135,7222,24130,24131,24132],"class_list":["post-47689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-charles-cumbert","tag-charles-dougherty","tag-claude-johnson","tag-cumberland-posey","tag-duquesne","tag-duquesne-university","tag-homestead-grays","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-post-gazette","tag-rob-ruck","tag-sports","tag-stephen-j-nesbitt","tag-stephen-nesbitt","tag-the-pittsburgh-post-gazette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47692,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689\/revisions\/47692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}