| Bob Gilkerson | |
| Position: | Second baseman |
| Birth Date: | February 10, 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Newtown, Virginia |
| Death Place: | Spring Valley, Illinois |
| Debutleague: | Negro league baseball |
| Debutyear: | 1909 |
| Debutteam: | Illinois Giants |
| Finalyear: | 1913 |
| Finalteam: | Leland Giants |
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Robert Paul Gilkerson (February 10, 1886 – March 21, 1944) was an American Negro league second baseman in the 1900s and 1910s, and later owner of the eponymous Gilkerson's Union Giants club.
A native of Newtown, Virginia, Gilkerson played for the Illinois Giants in 1909, and for the Leland Giants in 1913.[1] [2] In 1917, he bought W. S. Peters' Chicago baseball club, and ran his barnstorming Gilkerson's Union Giants through the 1930s.[3] Gilkerson died in Spring Valley, Illinois in 1944 at age 58.