Cornelius Cook

Leading passer on BHS football team … school dropped baseball as varsity sport in late 1920s … pitcher, made it to highest league available to African-Americans at the time, the Negro American Baseball League, in mid-1930s, played for Pittsburgh Crawfords with and against all-time greats Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston and Cool Papa Bell … after NABL, barnstormed with mixed teams around nation … entered military during World War II, left baseball after war to work in Bloomington.