Boid Buie

Boid Buie, born July 19th, 19221 in Pine Bluff, AR,2 was a Negro baseball player in 1948.

Biography

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Buie was the son of Romaggie (nee Jones) Buie Teasley.3 He grew up in southeast Arkansas near the towns of Tillar, AR and Portland, AR. As a teenager, Buie lost nearly all of his left arm in a car accident. Nevertheless, he became a star basketball player at St. Peter's High School and J.C. Corbin High School in Pine Bluff, AR.4 Later, he briefly attended Arkansas A&M College before enrolling at Tennessee A&I State College where he captained the school's basketball team.

Buie was best known as a professional basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters and other similar black touring teams. However, Boid also a short career in Negro Baseball, appearing as a pitcher for the Harlem Globetrotters baseball team in 1948.5 6

Buie died on February 20th, 1996 in Los Angeles, CA.7 He was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Garden in Gardena, CA.8

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"Boyd [sic] Buie, one armed basketball sensation of the [Harlem] Globetrotters, is with the [Harlem Globetrotters] baseball club. He is one of the best hurlers on the staff."9