Walt McCredie

Walt McCredie
File:Walt McCredie 1918.jpeg
Outfielder
Born: (1876-11-09)November 9, 1876 Manchester, Iowa
Died: Portland, Oregon
Batted: Left Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 20, 1903, for the Brooklyn Superbas
Last MLB appearance
June 27, 1903, for the Brooklyn Superbas
MLB statistics
Batting average	.324
Home runs	0
Runs batted in	20
Teams
Brooklyn Superbas (1903)

McCredie is one of the most notable Portland Beavers.

Walter Henry McCredie (November 9, 1876 in Manchester, Iowa – July 29, 1934 in Portland, Oregon), was a professional baseball player who played outfield for the Brooklyn Superbas during the 1903 baseball season. He managed for 18 years in the minor leagues, from 1905-1921 and 1934, 17 years of which was for the Portland Beavers, and one year of which (1917) was with the Salt Lake City Bees, both of the Pacific Coast League.

Views on the baseball color line

While serving as manager, McCredie consistently tested baseball's unwritten rule of barring African Americans and certain minorities from organized professional baseball. McCredie often paid Negro league baseball teams to play against his teams in spring training. In 1914 McCredie signed Lang Akana who was born in Hawaii and of Chinese descent. According to The Oregonian several Pacific Coast League players said they would boycott games if Akana played for the Beavers. McCreidie released him after a few weeks, but told The Oregonian that "I don't think the color of skin ought to be a barrier in baseball ... Here in the Pacific Coast League we have a Mexican and a Hawaiian and yet the laws of baseball bar Negroes from organized diamonds ... The crack Negro ballplayer should not be thus discriminated against. He is welcome in nearly every other branch of athletics."

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
• BR Bullpen biography