| Roland Anderson | |
| Position: | Pitcher / Outfielder[1] [2] [3] |
| Bats: | Unknown |
| Throws: | Left[4] |
| Debutleague: | Negro league baseball |
| Debutyear: | 1933 |
| Debutteam: | Philadelphia Black Meteors |
| Finalyear: | 1946 |
| Finalteam: | Philadelphia Black Meteors |
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Roland "Schoolboy" Anderson was an American baseball pitcher and outfielder in the Negro leagues. He played with the Philadelphia Black Meteors, the Otto Briggs All Stars, and the Homestead Grays.__TOC__
From the team's inception in 1933, Anderson appears to have been a key component in the Meteors' success,[8] [9] [10] [11] eventually leading to an ultimately unsuccessful bid to acquire him by the 1934 Negro NL champion Philadelphia Stars. In July 1936, the Philadelphia Tribune reported:
The Stars are after Saddler of the Briggs Meteors and "Schoolboy" Anderson. But the newly elected associate Otto Briggs has told Webster McDonald to lay hands off, they're his boys.[12]Moreover, the value assigned Philadelphia's "schoolboy twirler"[13] did not derive solely from his mound exploits, as evidenced by a number of contemporaneous news items (including one featuring what may well be the only published photograph of Anderson),[4] documenting not merely some degree of batting prowess,[1] but also the fact that, in at least a handful of Meteors games, he started in either right, left or center field.[1] [2] [3]
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