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Gibson, (Joshua) Josh

(1911–47) baseball player; born in Buena Vista, Ga. As a catcher for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays of the 1930s and 1940s black baseball leagues, he was known as "the black Babe Ruth." One of the most powerful homerun hitters in the game's history (he is unofficially credited with almost 800), he was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1972.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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This news follows reports of 19-yearold Josh Gibson from Warrington who died in the early hours of Saturday, August 24, after falling ill at the fourday dance music festival in Daresbury.
Tributes poured in after the death of the man named on social media as Josh Gibson.
He has been named locally on social media as Josh Gibson, who is understood to have attended Warrington Collegiate, reports theLiverpool Echo.
The man, named on social media as Josh Gibson, was spotted looking unwell by security staff who took him to a medical tent at the dance music festival in Daresbury,near Warrington.
The man, named in reports as Josh Gibson, was taken to Warrington District GeneralHospitalin the early hours of Saturday, August 24.
The Midland College student was named as the Jack Nicklaus player of the year for the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) level, earning him a place in the shootout on Saturday at Ohio State University's Scarlet Course in Columbus along with fellow Jack Nicklaus award winners Matthew Wolff of Oklahoma State, Barry's Jorge Garcia, Josh Gibson of Hope and Coastal Georgia's Mark David Johnson.
Another addition is the company's new Head of Capital Markets, Josh Gibson, coming from Venture Capital firm Bluenode Capital and Citibank's Institutional Foreign Exchange desk in New York.
It had four Hall-of-Fame players, including the legendary Josh Gibson and Smokey Joe Williams.
sweetFrog Frozen Yogurt has transferred ownership at five locations to multi-unit franchisee Josh Gibson. Also a Subway multi-unit franchisee, Gibson has worked with his partners, Adam Balestino and Matt Stopp, to build Frozen Ventures, which owns seven sweetFrog stores.
"Black Diamond" reflects on the legend of Josh Gibson, the "black Babe Ruth," and his premature demise.
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