Lefty Boone

{{Short description|American baseball player}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Lefty Boone

| image = Lefty Boone Baseball.jpg

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|3|24|mf=y}}

| birth_place = East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|9|18|1920|3|24|mf=yes}}{{cite web |title=U.S., Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/345609:8750?tid=&pid=&queryId=385433a6c9555ceeadec1ad6ea59a7b7&_phsrc=qTy35&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry |access-date=28 November 2022}}

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| bats = Unknown

| throws = Left

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1940

| debutteam = Memphis Red Sox

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| finalyear = 1944

| finalteam = Cleveland Buckeyes

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| teams =

• Memphis Red Sox (1940)
• St. Louis–New Orleans/Harrisburg Stars (1941, 1943)
• New York Black Yankees (1942)
• Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes (1942, 1944)
• Jacksonville Red Caps (1942)
• Philadelphia Stars (1944)

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Charles Pernell "Lefty" Boone (March 24, 1920 – September 18, 1976), also nicknamed "Zoot Suit", was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues.{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 |postscript= }} He played with several teams from 1940 to 1944.{{cite web|url=http://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=boone01lef |title=Lefty Boone Seamheads profile |publisher=seamheads.com |access-date=February 1, 2021}}