Elbert Eatmon

{{Short description|Professional baseball player}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Elbert Eatmon | image = | image_size = | position = Pitcher | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|8|3|mf=y}} | birth_place = Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|2|9|1914|8|3|mf=y}} | death_place = Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | bats = Unknown | throws = Left | debutleague = Negro league baseball | debutdate = | debutyear = 1937 | debutteam = Birmingham Black Barons | finaldate = | finalyear = 1938 | finalteam = Birmingham Black Barons | statyear = | statleague = | stat1label = | stat1value = | stat2label = | stat2value = | stat3label = | stat3value = | teams = *Birmingham Black Barons (1937-1938) | highlights = }} '''Elbert "Lefty" Eatmon''' (August 3, 1914 – February 9, 1998) was an American professional baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues.<ref name="Riley">{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}</ref> He played with the Birmingham Black Barons in 1937 and 1938.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=eatmo01elb |title=Elbert Eatmon Seamheads Profile |publisher=seamheads.com |access-date=March 30, 2021}}</ref>

The Quad-City Times called Eatmon the "foremost southpaw" in the Negro American League in 1938.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78490546/birmingham-club-strong/|title=Birmingham Club Strong|page=10|work=Quad-City Times|via=Newspapers.com|date=1938-06-13 |accessdate=2021-05-27}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=e/eatmoel01}} and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=eatmo01elb Seamheads]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eatmon, Elbert}} Category:Birmingham Black Barons players Category:1914 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Baseball pitchers Category:Baseball players from Tuscaloosa, Alabama