Bunny Downs

McKinley "Bunny" Downs
McKinley "Bunny" Downs
	Infielder / Manager
	Born: March 7, 1894; Chattanooga, Tennessee
	Died: June 30, 1973 (aged 79); Winston-Salem, North Carolina
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
debut
	1914, for the West Baden Sprudels
Last appearance
	1929, for the Hilldale Club
Teams
	West Baden Sprudels (1914, 1915); Louisville White Sox (1915); St. Louis Giants (1916); Philadelphia All Stars (1917); Victory's All Stars (1917); Bacharach Giants (1917–1918, 1923); Hilldale Club (1917–1922, 1929); Brooklyn Royal Giants (1923–1925); Harrisburg Giants (1925); Wilmington Potomacs (1925); Philadelphia Tigers (1928);

McKinley "Bunny" Downs (March 7, 1894 - June 30, 1973) was a Negro leagues infielder and manager for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first several seasons.

A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Downs attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1914 with the West Baden Sprudels, and went on to play for several teams, including a six-year stretch from 1917 to 1922 with the Hilldale Club. At age 56, Downs received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever.^[2] He died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1973 at age 79.

References[edit]

^ "Hilldale Again" Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, June 30, 1918, Page 20, Column 2
^ "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"

External links[edit]

Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
Bunny Downs managerial career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com

[hilldale1918-1] "Hilldale Again" Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, June 30, 1918, Page 20, Column 2

[poll-2] "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"

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