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Cincinnati Enquirer recounts that the current Class A League champions, the White Sox, played the Goodyear Shoe Repair team. According to the Enquirer the White Sox pitcher Rogers and Moss “...engaged in a thrilling pitchers’ duel.” Moss struck out nine batters and Rogers retired thirteen.
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in two games. Memphis, with the infusion of talent from
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in 1937. Moss, who continued to pitch for the club, would have 59 strikeouts over 86.1 innings for the year. The numbers equate to six strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. Moss was again elected to the East Team for the East-West All-Star game. This time, he would pitch six innings. Four runs
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with 12 strike outs. He pitched in at least two of the four games the Tiger played during the
Indiana-Ohio League elimination series and was the losing pitcher for each match. The first game of the series Moss held the Richmond Lincos to five hits and one run but the Tigers lost 1 to 0. The second
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In 1933, Porter Moss was a pitcher for the
Goodyear Shoe Repair Team, a community Class A team which played against other local Cincinnati teams. Moss began to distinguish himself when on April 30, 1933, Moss struck out 15 batters in a game, but still lost the game. A week later, Moss again struck
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Moss was again sent to the East West All-Star game in 1943. This year he would be an alternate for Hilton Smith who was ill. Early in the year he had thrown two complete games shutouts against both the
Chicago American Giants and the Cincinnati Clowns. At the East-West game Moss was brought in to
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Jackson, Tennessee, more than twelve hours after he was shot. His death was announced after the first game of a Sunday double header between the Red Sox and the
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September 18, 1941, Moss had his best performance of the year pitching against the
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Moss was elected to the East Team for the East-West All-Star game and was selected to play in the North-South Game in 1936. He did not play in the East-West game though as only three of the five pitchers were used in the game:
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785:"Revised Schedule for Next Four Weeks Given: Cincinnati Tigers, Strong Negro Team, Strengthens Circuit; Search for Eighth Member To Be Continued".
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Moss left behind a wife, Artie Moss. He was buried in
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1580:The Negro Baseball Leagues, A Photographic History
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1488:"Six Chicagoans Picked on Negro All-Star Squad".
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1181:"Porter Moss - Seamheads Negro Leagues Database"
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250:(June 10, 1910 – July 16, 1944) was an American
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1699:(PhD Dissertation). The University of Memphis.
1518:"Memphis Hurling Stops Cincinnati, 7-3, 3-0".
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1220:"Colored Nines Meet Today in All-Star Game".
971:"Pitching Duel is Assured by Colored Stars".
300:In 1934, Porter Moss joined the newly formed
986:"24,000 See East Humble West in Chi, 10-2".
833:"Jocab Hurls Richmond Nine to 1-0 Triumph".
1298:"West Colored All-Star Nine Is Announced".
1152:"Memphis Red Sox Nine to have Powerlast=".
736:"William D. Hubbard - Ohio History Central"
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573:where he was born and his mother resided.
1098:. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
101:1932, for the Indianapolis ABCs
629:"Porter Moss was "the best of it all"".
265:and was a three-time participant in the
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1582:. Mattituck, NY: Amereon House.
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1269:. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
1224:. August 21, 1938. p. 28.
1129:The Negro Leagues, 1869 - 1960
990:. August 29, 1936. p. 15.
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1659:. July 22, 1944. p. 12.
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1522:. June 19, 1943. p. 18.
1492:. July 25, 1943. p. 23.
1462:. July 27, 1942. p. 17.
1302:. July 30, 1939. p. 22.
1237:The Negro Leagues Chronology
1235:Hauser, Christopher (2006).
1209:. July 30, 1938. p. 16.
1050:. March 3, 1937. p. 20.
1020:. June 22, 1936. p. 16.
1005:. July 30, 1936. p. 15.
819:. July 14, 1934. p. 13.
804:. August 2, 1934. p. 8.
681:. July 10, 1933. p. 12.
647:"Community League Class A".
633:. April 5, 1993. p. 38.
228:Career highlights and awards
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789:. June 6, 1934. p. 8.
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666:. May 8, 1933. p. 12.
651:. May 1, 1933. p. 14.
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1604:"Negro League No Hitters"
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881:"New Players to Show".
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1031:"Tigers Break Even".
1001:"Tigers Win Easily".
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866:"Tigers Break Even".
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695:"Tigers Cop Double".
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252:Negro league baseball
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443:Kansas City Monarchs
183:Kansas City Monarchs
1655:"Hunt for Slayer".
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1046:"In Negro League".
973:The Chicago Tribune
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662:"Class A League".
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