Cum Posey Marquee Hall of Fame 2006

Cum Posey built the Homestead Grays into one of Black baseball's defining clubs, first as a player and then as its owner. He also played basketball before concentrating on baseball. Born in June 1890 and dead in March 1946, he was elected as an executive by the special Negro Leagues committee in 2006.

He took over the Grays as a player in the 1910s and owned them by the 1920s. Under him they won nine pennants in twelve years from 1937, with Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard batting back to back, and split their home games between Pittsburgh and Griffith Stadium in Washington. Only the Kansas City Monarchs, with ten, won more.

He wrote a weekly column in the Pittsburgh Courier for years, which is a large part of why the period is documented at all. He died in 1946, months before Jackie Robinson reached Brooklyn and the Negro Leagues began to come apart.