Oscar Boone

{{short description|American baseball player (1911-1958)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Oscar Boone

| image = Oscar Boone Baseball.jpg

| position = Catcher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|3|28|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Cameron, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1958|10|12|1911|3|28|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Eloy, Arizona, U.S.

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1939

| debutteam = Atlanta Black Crackers

| finaldate =

| finalyear = 1941

| finalteam = Chicago American Giants

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• Atlanta Black Crackers (1939)
• Baltimore Elite Giants (1939)
• Chicago American Giants (1941)

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}} (March 28, 1911 – October 12, 1958), nicknamed "the San Angelo Sheepherder", was an American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues.

A native of Cameron, Texas, Boone played for the Atlanta Black Crackers and Baltimore Elite Giants in 1939 and the Chicago American Giants in 1941.{{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 }} He died in Eloy, Arizona in 1958 at age 47.