Alfred Saylor
American baseball player

Alfred Saylor

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American baseball player
A.K.A.
Alfred Harrison Saylor
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
31 December 1911(Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas, USA)
Death:
8 April 1955
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Biography

Alfred Harrison Saylor (December 31, 1911 – April 8, 1955), nicknamed "Greyhound", was an American Negro league pitcher for the Birmingham Black Barons in the 1940s.

A native of Blytheville, Arkansas, Saylor was on the mound for the Black Barons' Game 1 and Game 5 victories in the 1943 Negro World Series, but took the loss in the deciding Game 8. He died in Cleveland, Ohio in 1955 at age 43.