Archie Ware

{{short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Archie Ware

|image=Archie Ware Baseball.jpg

|caption=

|position=First baseman

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1918|6|19}}

|birth_place=Greenville, Florida, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1990|12|13|1918|2|15}}

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

|debutyear=1942

|debutteam=Cincinnati/Cleveland Buckeyes

|finalyear=1952

|finalteam=Lewiston Broncs

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .288

| stat2label = Hits

| stat2value = 159

| stat3label = Home runs

| stat3value = 2

| stat4label = Runs batted in

| stat4value = 81

| stat5label = Stolen bases

| stat5value = 10

|teams=

• Cincinnati/Cleveland Buckeyes (1942)
• Cleveland Buckeyes (1943–1948)
• Farnham Pirates (1951)
• Lewiston Broncs (1952)

|highlights=

• 4× All-Star (1944–1946)
• Negro League World Series champion (1945)
• Negro American League batting champion (1946)

}}

Archie Virgil Ware (June 19, 1918 – December 13, 1990) was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball. He played between 1942 and 1952.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/nlb/player.cgi?id=ware--001arc Archie Ware Statistics and History]. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on June 12, 2012.

In between, Ware played winter ball in Venezuela with the Navegantes del Magallanes club in the 1947–48 season,[https://www.pelotabinaria.com.ve/beisbol/mostrar.php?ID=warearc001 Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional – Archie Ware]. Pura Pelota. Retrieved on January 27, 2016. and for the Spur Cola Colonites of Panama in 1950–51, playing for Spur Cola in the 1951 Caribbean Series.Nuñez, José Antero (1994). Serie del Caribe de la Habana a Puerto La Cruz. JAN Editor. {{ISBN|980-07-2389-7}}