Roland Anderson (baseball)

Roland "Schoolboy" Anderson was an American baseball pitcher and outfielder in the Negro leagues. He played with the Philadelphia Black Meteors, the Otto Briggs All Stars, and the Homestead Grays.

Roland Anderson
Pitcher / Outfielder[1][2][3]
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Left[4]
Negro league baseball debut
1933, for the Philadelphia Black Meteors
Last appearance
1946, for the Philadelphia Black Meteors
Teams
  • Philadelphia Black Meteors (1933–1934, 1936, 1940–1946)[5]
  • Otto Briggs All-Stars (1934)[6]
  • Homestead Grays (1944)[7]

Career

From the team's inception in 1933, Anderson appears to have been a key component in the Meteors' success,[8][9][10][11] eventually leading to an ultimately unsuccessful bid to acquire him by the 1934 Negro NL champion Philadelphia Stars. In July 1936, the Philadelphia Tribune reported:

The Stars are after Saddler of the Briggs Meteors and "Schoolboy" Anderson. But the newly elected associate Otto Briggs has told Webster McDonald to lay hands off, they're his boys.[12]

Moreover, the value assigned Philadelphia's "schoolboy twirler"[13] did not derive solely from his mound exploits, as evidenced by a number of contemporaneous news items (including one featuring what may well be the only published photograph of Anderson),[4] documenting not merely some degree of batting prowess,[1][3] but also the fact that, in at least a handful of Meteors games, he started in either right, left or center field.[1][2][3]

Further reading

Notes
  1. In the Pittsburgh Courier's account of the game, the Cubans' Bill Anderson pitched in the contest, not Roland Anderson.[14]

References
  1. "Meteors Top Renault Via Triple Play".Philadelphia Tribune. June 29, 1933. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  2. "Meteors Cop 2; Play 2 Sunday". Philadelphia Tribune. June 6, 1942. p. 13. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  3. "Meteors Top Vineland as Cain Hurls Shutout". Philadelphia Tribune. May 27, 1944. p. 10. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  4. "Batting Star". Philadelphia Tribune. June 6, 1942. p. 12. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
  5. "Anderson Hurls". Philadelphia Tribune. June 29, 1933. p. 11. Retrieved May 1, 2021. See also:
  6. "Brigg's Youngsters Nip Orioles' Winning Streak". Philadelphia Tribune. September 27, 1934. p. 11. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
  7. "Roland Anderson Seamheads Profile". seamheads.com. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  8. "Anderson Stars". Philadelphia Tribune. June 8, 1933. p. 2. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  9. "Black's Boys Click". Philadelphia Tribune. June 8, 1933. p. 10. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  10. "Black's Meteors Shut Out McGrail Giants". Philadelphia Tribune. August 16, 1934. p. 12. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  11. "Black's Meteors Slap City Line in Double-Header; Anderson Misses No-Hit Game in Second When Opponent Slaps Single". Philadelphia Tribune. September 6, 1934. p. 9. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  12. Harris, Ed R. (July 23, 1936). "The Gossip Post!!!". Philadelphia Tribune. p. 10. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  13. "Meteors Win Again in Fleisher League". Philadelphia Tribune. June 22, 1933. p. 11. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
  14. Jensen, Morgen S. (July 26, 1941)."Record Crowd at Yankee Stadium for 4-Team Card". The Pittsburgh Courier. p. 16. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
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