Cliff Blackmon
American baseball player
Clifford Lorenza "Sleepy" Blackmon (March 25, 1914 – December 17, 1995) was an American professional baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played with several teams from 1937 to 1941.
Blackmon was regarded as the ace of the Black Barons in 1938, and was compared to Satchel Paige in the Quad-City Times.
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