{{short description|American baseball player (1910-1980)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name=Pepper Bassett | image=Pepper Bassett.png | position=Catcher | birth_date={{Birth date|1910|8|5|mf=y}}<br/>Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. | death_date={{death date and age|1980|12|28|1910|8|5|mf=y}}<br/>Los Angeles, California, U.S.<ref>{{cite web| title=Lloyd Pepper Bassett |url= https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VPJN-7PN | work= California, Death Index, 1940-1997|author= Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento| publisher= FamilySearch}}</ref> | bats=Both | throws=Right | debutleague=Negro league baseball | debutdate= | debutyear=1934 | debutteam=New Orleans Crescent Stars | finalleague=Negro league baseball | finaldate= | finalyear=1954 | finalteam=Detroit Stars | statyear= | statleague= | stat1label= | stat1value= | stat2label= | stat2value= | stat3label= | stat3value= | teams= *New Orleans Crescent Stars (1934) *Philadelphia Stars (1935) *Homestead Grays (1936)<ref name="grays1936">[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdMnBNRTRjaGNSWUE "Colored Teams to Appear at Riverside Park" Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, September 16, 1936, Page 8, Column 7"]</ref> *Pittsburgh Crawfords (1937–1938) *Chicago American Giants (1939, 1941) *Nuevo Laredo Tecolotes (1940) *Cincinnati Clowns (1943-1944) *Birmingham Black Barons (1944–1950) | highlights= }} '''Lloyd "Pepper" Bassett''' (August 5, 1910 – December 28, 1980) was an American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues and the Mexican League. He played professionally from 1934 to 1954, playing mainly with the Birmingham Black Barons; he was All-Star seven times.<ref>{{cite book|title=Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953|first=Larry|last=Lester|authorlink=Larry Lester|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|page=412|year=2001|isbn=9780803280007}}</ref>
Bassett was 15 years old when began his career in 1934 with the minor league New Orleans Crescent Stars; while playing for New Orleans, he suggested to the team owner that as a stunt to draw a larger audience, he should catch some games while sitting in a rocking chair; the stunt was a success, and he would occasionally resort to that stunt throughout his career.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
During the 1944 Negro World Series, Bassett was injured in a car accident, along with Tommy Sampson, John Britton, and Leandy Young.<ref name="Riley">{{cite book|last=Riley|first=James A.|title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile|url-access=registration|place=New York|publisher=Carroll & Graf|year=1994|isbn=0-7867-0959-6}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Baseballstats|mlb=820570|br=b/bassepe01}} and [https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=basset000llo Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats] and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=basse01pep Seamheads] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20111013181213/http://nlbpa.com/bassett__lloyd.html NLBPA.com]
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