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Negro League Baseball player
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16 September 1918 (aged 29 years)
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29 years
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Biography
Pearl F. "Specks" Webster (July 8, 1889 – November 16, 1918) was an American baseball catcher and first baseman in the Negro Leagues. He played from 1914 to 1918 with several teams.
In 1918, while playing for the Hilldale Club, Webster was drafted into the Army in Class 1-A.
He died of the Spanish flu pandemic while serving in the United States Army during World War I.
34 years after his death, Webster received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.
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