Donaldson will be the next baseball Hall of Famer from the Negro Leagues, when the next round comes up in a couple years.
Read a clip of an article from Omaha, Nebraska published in 1946. Read and know people have written of his greatness for more than 100 years. We are ‘Always Looking’ to keep his memory alive and restore his legacy.
Legendary Donaldson By Robert Phipps
JOHN DONALDSON has a unique place in baseball history. You won’t find him mentioned in the official histories of the game. He has not been proposed for the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y., where the stories and likenesses of a select group of outstanding performers have been embalmed. Yet he deserves something more than he has been getting. He has been accorded endless eulogies by the men who played against him, a flattering but perishable compliment. He was something of a forerunner for Satchel Paige and Joe Louis and an antidote for Jack Johnson. LIKE Paige, he was a baseball player. But this does not rule out comparisons with fighters like Louis and Johnson. An outstanding athlete is always an example, good or bad. Donaldson, like the others mentioned, was a Negro. He was distinctly a credit to his race.
