That's when Bellaire, Ohio, native, Harlem resident and hardball legend King Solomon "Sol" White was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A man who had excelled as a player ...

he began playing pro baseball at age 16 with the Bellaire Globes. Former Pittsburgh Pirate, Al Oliver, said it’s hard to imagine what Sol White endured. “He was a player, coach, manager.

He was the first Black player in Major League Baseball. But decades before Robinson ... matched Hall of Famer contemporaries like Sol White and Frank Grant. THORN: The thing that left him off ...

A historical marker dedication was unveiled at Bellaire's Union Park on Friday for King Solomon "Sol" White. A Bellaire native born in 1868, White was a former baseball infielder and a pioneer of ...