{{short description|American baseball player}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Claude Grier | image = Claude Red Grier.jpg | position = Pitcher | birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|3|24|mf=y}} | birth_place = Catawba County, North Carolina, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|3|1|1904|3|24|mf=y}} | death_place = Newton, North Carolina, U.S. | bats = Left | throws = Left | debutleague = Negro league baseball | debutdate = | debutyear = 1924 | debutteam = Washington/Wilmington Potomacs | finaldate = | finalyear = 1928 | finalteam = Bacharach Giants | statyear = | statleague = | stat1label = | stat1value = | stat2label = | stat2value = | stat3label = | stat3value = | teams = * Washington/Wilmington Potomacs (1924–1925) * Bacharach Giants (1925–1928) |highlights= * Pitched a no-hitter on October 3, 1926 }}
'''Claude Bonds Grier''' (March 24, 1904 – March 1, 1967), nicknamed "'''Red'''", was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s.
A native of Catawba County, North Carolina, Grier attended North Carolina A&T State University. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1924 for the Washington Potomacs, and split time between Wilmington and the Bacharach Giants the following season. Grier went on to play three more seasons with the Bacharach club, where he spun a historic no-hitter in the 1926 Colored World Series, and finished his career in 1928.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=grier01cla |title=Claude Grier |publisher=seamheads.com |date= |accessdate=October 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=grier-000red |title=Red Grier |publisher=baseball-reference.com |date= |accessdate=October 7, 2020}}</ref> He died in Newton, North Carolina in 1967 at age 62.
==See also== * List of Negro league baseball no-hitters
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=g/griercl01}} and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=grier01cla Seamheads]
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