is a member both of the Negro League Hall of Fame and of the National Baseball Congress Hall of Fame. His nephew Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd pitched for three MLB teams, most notably the Boston Red Sox, between 1982 and 1991. See also List of Negro league baseball players List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball Sources Interview with Bob Boyd Negro League Baseball Players Association National Baseball Congress Hall of Fame Bob Boyd - Baseballbiography.com Retrosheet Official Web Page References External links and Seamheads 1919 births 2004 deaths African Americans in World War II Baltimore Orioles players Baseball players from Mississippi Charleston Senators players Chicago White Sox players Colorado Springs Sky Sox (WL) players Deaths from cancer in Kansas Houston Buffaloes players Kansas City Athletics players Louisville Colonels (minor league) players Major League Baseball first basemen Memphis Red Sox players Milwaukee Braves players Oklahoma City 89ers players People from Marshall County, Mississippi Sacramento Solons players San Antonio Bullets players Seattle Rainiers players Baseball players from Wichita, Kansas Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players United States Army personnel of World War II 21st-century African-American people African-American United States Army personnel