Knucks James

{{short description|American Negro Leagues baseball player (1878–1966)}}

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| name = Knucks James

| image = Knucks James.jpg

| position = Second baseman

| birth_date = May 2, 1878
Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = June 1966
New York City, New York, U.S. (aged 88)

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1905

| debutteam = Brooklyn Royal Giants

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| finalyear = 1918

| finalteam = Brooklyn Royal Giants

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• Brooklyn Royal Giants (1905–1906, 1917–1918)
• Cuban X-Giants (1906)
• Philadelphia Giants (1908–1911)[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Wcncq5-bHdd204aGp5c3JMcEk/edit "Philadelphia Giants Subdue Leland Giants" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, August 21, 1909, Page 7, Columns 3 and 4]
• Paterson Smart Set (1912–1913)
• Schenectady Mohawk Giants (1913–1914)
• Louisville White Sox (1914)
• Lincoln Giants (1914–1915)
• Bacharach Giants (1916–1917)

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William "Knucks" James (May 2, 1878 – June 1966) was an American baseball second baseman in the Negro leagues. He played from 1905 to 1918 with several teams.{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |

title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile |url-access=registration |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}

James's wife Sadie traveled with him in 1914 when the Mohawk team traveled to Indianapolis and Chicago for a series of games.[http://negroleagues.bravehost.com/pdf/002874.pdf "Notes of the Game" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, July 18, 1914, Page 4, Column 6]