Draft:Richard Kent
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Richard W. Kent[1] was a businessman and baseball team proprietor in St. Louis, Missouri. He owned Calumet Cab Company. He was reportedly a numbers runner.[2] He and two partners, Richard W. Kent and Samuel Shepard, acquired the St. Louis Giants[3] and built a stadium for the team, renamed the St. Louis Stars.[2][4]
He was a director of the Negro National League (NNL).[5]
Silas E. Garner was a lawyer for the Calumet Cab Company.[6]
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- ^ Lomax, Michael E. (27 June 2014). Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: The Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5282-3.
- ^ a b Gaus, Ed (18 July 2001). Beerball: A History of St. Louis Baseball. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-19172-7.
- ^ Morris, Ann (1999). Lift Every Voice and Sing: St. Louis African-Americans in the Twentieth Century : Narratives. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1253-5.
- ^ Flaspohler, Brian (2022). St. Louis Baseball History: A Guide. Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-4671-5124-5.
- ^ Lester, Larry (14 September 2012). Rube Foster in His Time: On the Field and in the Papers with Black Baseball's Greatest Visionary. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3927-0.
- ^ "Who's who in Colored America". 1942.