Acie Griggs | |
Position: | Second baseman |
Birth Date: | September 13, 1923 |
Birth Place: | Union Springs, Alabama |
Death Place: | Birmingham, Alabama |
Bats: | Right |
Throws: | Right |
Debutleague: | Negro league baseball |
Debutyear: | 1948 |
Debutteam: | New York Cubans |
Finalyear: | 1957 |
Finalteam: | Birmingham Black Barons |
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Asa Griggs (September 13, 1923 - June 11, 2007), nicknamed "Skeet", was an American Negro league second baseman in the 1940s and 1950s.
A native of Union Springs, Alabama, Griggs was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer Wiley Griggs. Older brother Acie graduated from A. H. Parker High School and Alabama A&M University,[1] [2] and served in the US Navy during World War II.[3] He played for the New York Cubans in 1948, and joined the Birmingham Black Barons in 1949, where he played through 1957.[4] Griggs died in Birmingham, Alabama in 2007 at age 83.
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