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- Ron Teasley, a notable Negro League veteran and the third-oldest major league player, died at 99, as announced by Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
- Teasley was the first African American baseball captain at Northwestern High School in Detroit and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Cubans.
- After his baseball career, he earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Wayne State University and worked for 34 years with the Detroit Board of Education.
- Teasley is survived by three children, seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
