play 24 games with the Monarchs. He batted .321 while leading the league in runs (22), home runs (two), and runs batted in (eighteen). In the 1946 Negro World Series against the Newark Eagles, he batted .133 in four games with two RBI in the series loss. 1947 was his last year with the Monarchs. He played in 37 games and batted .210. He closed his major league career with the Indianapolis Clowns in 1948, batted .389 in twelve games. Basketball Strong also played basketball for the original Harlem Globetrotters from 1935 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1949, during the baseball off-season. In 1942, he also briefly played for the Chicago Studebaker Flyers of the National Basketball League, along with other Globetrotters, as one of the first black players in the league. References External links and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads 1914 births 1978 deaths Baseball players from Indiana Basketball players from Indiana Chicago American Giants players Chicago Studebaker Flyers players Harlem Globetrotters players Indianapolis Athletics players Indianapolis Clowns players Indianapolis ABCs (1938) players Kansas City Monarchs players American men's basketball players United States Navy personnel of World War II United States Navy sailors Seabees 20th-century African-American sportspeople African-American United States Navy personnel African Americans in World War II