Bernard Fernandez (baseball)

{{short description|American baseball player}}

{{use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Bernard Fernandez

| image = Bernard Fernandez Baseball.jpg

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|3|5}}

| birth_place = Tampa, Florida

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|11|29|1918|3|5}}

| death_place = North Las Vegas, Nevada

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| teams =

• Nebraska Giants (1933–1935)
• Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) Baseball Team (1935–1938)
• Jacksonville Red Caps (1938, 1939)
• Atlanta Black Crackers (1938, 1939)
• Pepsi Cola Giants (1940, 1942, 1943–1944)
• Philadelphia Stars (1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946)
• Sandblast Indians (1941)
• Brooklyn Royal Giants (1941)
• Brooklyn Brown Dodgers (1945)
• Pittsburgh Crawfords (1946)
• Richmond Giants (1947–1948)
• New York Black Yankees (1948–1949)

| highlights =

}}

Bernardo Fernandez (March 5, 1918 – November 29, 2014) was a baseball pitcher who played in the Negro leagues. He played for the Atlanta Black Crackers, Jacksonville Red Caps, Philadelphia Stars, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Pittsburgh Crawfords and New York Black Yankees, among other independent and minor Negro league teams.{{Cite web |url=http://coe.k-state.edu/annex/nlbemuseum/history/players/fernandez.html |title=Negro League eMuseum |access-date=2015-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419215741/http://coe.k-state.edu/annex/nlbemuseum/history/players/fernandez.html |archive-date=2015-04-19 |url-status=dead }}[https://irp.cdn-website.com/33d0c3d0/files/uploaded/F-H-2020.pdf Center for Negro League Baseball Research]

He was born in Tampa, Florida, and died at 96 in North Las Vegas, Nevada, where he lived.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/nlb/player.cgi?id=fernan002ber Baseball Reference][https://web.archive.org/web/20141231060013/http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/negro-leagues-baseball-player-s-legacy-lives-family Negro Leagues baseball player’s legacy lives on in family]