Clarence “Fats” Jenkins was born on January 10, 1898, in New York City, and died on December 4, 1968, in Philadelphia. He was best known as two-sport player, equally great at both basketball and baseball.
Jenkins, during his more than 20-year career in baseball, played for the Harrisburg Giants, 1923-1927.
His baseball statistics are found at Seamheads.
A biographical sketch of him is found at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Part of that sketch sketch is reproduced below:
He began his professional baseball career with the 1920 New York Lincoln Giants. His skills and success on the diamond led him to manager Oscar Charleston‘s Harrisburg Giants in 1923, where he was the right fielder and lead-off hitter for the next five years, recording batting averages of .317, .315, .283, and .398 for the 1924-1927 seasons, until they dropped out of the Eastern Colored League…..
In 2019, “Fats” Jenkins was inducted into the Capital Area (Pennsylvania) Sports Hall of Fame.
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Note: It was during the time period that Jenkins played for Harrisburg, that the Ku Klux Klan held rallies on City Island where the baseball stadium was located. In 1927, the Harrisburg team had to dropout of league it was in because it lost its home field. The Klan was also very active in the Lykens Valley area, with a major rally in 1924 at the Gratz Fairgrounds with an estimated 5000 people attending.
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