Grave Of Legendary Ohio Baseball Player Gets A Marker

The western New York grave of an African-American baseball legend from Ohio who played more than a century ago now has a marker. A tombstone and memorial for Grant "Home Run" Johnson are at Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg, New York. Johnson was a star in semiprofessional leagues and the Negro Leagues in the 1890s and early 20th century, once hitting 60 home runs in a season during the sport's dead-ball era. Johnson, of Findlay, died poor in 1963 and was buried in an unmarked grave. The marker comes through the efforts of the Society for American Baseball Research's Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project.