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Charlie Parks

1917–1987

United States

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Charles Ederson Parks (June 19, 1917 – September 13, 1987) was an American Negro league baseball catcher in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Chester, South Carolina, Parks made his Negro leagues debut for the New York Black Yankees in 1938. He played with the Newark Eagles for several seasons, beginning in 1941.

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