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American baseball player
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
7 March 1894(Chattanooga)
Death:
30 June 1973(Winston-Salem)
The details
Biography
McKinley "Bunny" Downs (March 7, 1894 - June 30, 1973) was a Negro Leagues Infielder and manager for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first several seasons.
He played a number of years with the Hilldale Club.
Downs attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia.
At age 56, Downs received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.