Alonzo Longware

{{Short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Alonzo Longware

|position=Third Baseman

|bats=

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date|mf=yes|1891|3|27}}

|birth_place=Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|mf=yes|1961|3|30|1891|3|27}}

|death_place=Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|debutyear=1920

|debutteam=Indianapolis ABCs

|finalyear=1920

|finalteam=Detroit Stars

|teams=

  • Indianapolis ABCs ({{by|1920}})[http://negroleagues.bravehost.com/pdf/000354.pdf "ABCs to Train in Birmingham, Alabama" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, March 27, 1920, Page 7, Columns 1 and 2]
  • Detroit Stars ({{by|1920}})

}}

Alonzo Longware (March 27, 1891 - March 30, 1961) was an American Negro leagues third baseman at the founding of the first Negro National League. He started the 1920 season playing for the Indianapolis ABCs and was traded during the first week of May to the Detroit Stars.[http://negroleagues.bravehost.com/pdf/000125.pdf "Jackson Nine Tackles Stars" Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI, Thursday, May 6, 1920, Page 15, Column 3]

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