Bunny Downs

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Bunny Downs

|image=Bunny Downs.jpg

|position=Infielder / Manager

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date|mf=yes|1894|3|7}}

|birth_place=Chattanooga, Tennessee

|death_date={{death date and age|mf=yes|1973|6|30|1894|3|7}}

|death_place=Winston-Salem, North Carolina

|debutyear=1914

|debutteam=West Baden Sprudels

|finalyear=1929

|finalteam=Hilldale Club

|teams=

• West Baden Sprudels ({{by|1914}}, {{by|1915}})
• Louisville White Sox ({{by|1915}})
• St. Louis Giants ({{by|1916}})
• Philadelphia All Stars ({{by|1917}})
• Victory's All Stars ({{by|1917}})
• Bacharach Giants ({{by|1917}}–{{by|1918}}, {{by|1923}})
• Hilldale Club ({{by|1917}}–{{by|1922}}, {{by|1929}})[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdelZPc0FUaDJDZEk "Hilldale Again" Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, June 30, 1918, Page 20, Column 2]
• Brooklyn Royal Giants ({{by|1923}}–{{by|1925}})
• Harrisburg Giants ({{by|1925}})
• Wilmington Potomacs ({{by|1925}})
• Philadelphia Tigers ({{by|1928}})

}}

McKinley "Bunny" Downs (March 7, 1894 - June 30, 1973) was a Negro leagues infielder and manager for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first several seasons.

A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Downs attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1914 with the West Baden Sprudels, and went on to play for several teams, including a six-year stretch from 1917 to 1922 with the Hilldale Club. At age 56, Downs received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever.[http://johndonaldson.bravehost.com/a.html "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"] He died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1973 at age 79.