Quincy Trouppe

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Quincy Trouppe

|image=Quincy Trouppe.jpg

|image_size=

|caption=

|position=Catcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1912|12|25}}

|birth_place=Dublin, Georgia, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1993|8|10|1912|12|25}}

|death_place=Creve Coeur, Missouri, U.S.

|debutleague = NgL

|debutdate=

|debutyear=1930

|debutteam=St. Louis Stars

|debut2league = MLB

|debut2date=

|debut2year=April 30, 1952

|debut2team=Cleveland Indians

|finalyear=May 10, 1952

|finalteam=Cleveland Indians

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .259

| stat2label = Hits

| stat2value = 127

| stat3label = Home runs

| stat3value = 6

| stat4label = Runs batted in

| stat4value = 73

| stat5label = Stolen bases

| stat5value = 7

| stat6label = Managerial record

| stat6value = 174–140–8

|teams=

Negro leagues

St. Louis Stars ({{mlby|1930}}–{{mlby|1931}})
Kansas City Monarchs ({{mlby|1932}}, {{mlby|1935}})
Homestead Grays ({{mlby|1932}})
Detroit Wolves ({{mlby|1932}})
Chicago American Giants ({{mlby|1933}})
Bismarck Churchills ({{mlby|1935}})
Indianapolis ABC's/St. Louis Stars ({{mlby|1938}})
Cleveland Buckeyes ({{mlby|1945}}–{{mlby|1947}})
Chicago American Giants ({{mlby|1948}})

Major League Baseball

Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1952}})

| highlights =

8× All-Star (1938, 1945, 1946–1948²)
Negro World Series champion (1945)

}}

Quincy Thomas Trouppe (December 25, 1912 – August 10, 1993) was an American professional baseball player and an amateur boxing champion. He was a catcher in the Negro leagues from 1930 to 1949. He was a native of Dublin, Georgia.

Early life

He was born Quincy Thomas Troupe on December 25, 1912. He later changed the spelling to Trouppe in 1946.{{cite web | url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/quincy-trouppe/ | title=Quincy Trouppe – Society for American Baseball Research }}

Career

He also played in the Mexican League, and the Canadian Provincial League. His teams included St. Louis Stars, Detroit Wolves, Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABC's/St. Louis Stars, Cleveland Buckeyes (whom he managed to Negro American League titles in 1945 and 1947), New York Cubans, and Bismarcks (a/k/a Bismarck Churchills). He played in Latin America for fourteen winter seasons and barnstormed with black all-star teams playing against white major league players. He managed the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican winter league, winning the 1947-48 season championship.{{cite web|last=Revel|first=Layton & Luis Munoz|title=Forgotten Heroes: Pedro Anibal "Perucho" Cepeda|url=https://irp.cdn-website.com/33d0c3d0/files/uploaded/Pedro-Anibal-Perucho-Cepeda.pdf|publisher=Center for Negro League Baseball Research|access-date=12 September 2013}}

Trouppe caught six games for the 1952 Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball and made 84 appearances with their Triple-A farm club.[https://baseballbiography.com/quincy-trouppe Kleinknecht, Merl F. 'Quincy Trouppe', Baseball Library (2002)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051123131453/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/T/Trouppe_Quincy.stm |date=November 23, 2005}} Retrieved July 25, 2005. When he made his major league debut on April 30, 1952 at Shibe Park he became one of the oldest rookies in MLB history. He was 39 years old. On May 3, he was behind the plate when relief pitcher "Toothpick Sam" Jones entered the game, forming the first black battery in American League history. Trouppe played his last game for the Indians on May 10. In his short stint with Cleveland he was 1-for-10 with a single (off Tommy Byrne of the St. Louis Browns in his last major league game), a walk and a run scored. He handled 25 chances in the field flawlessly for a fielding percentage of 1.000.

He died at the age of 80 in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

Managerial record

rowspan="2"\|Team	rowspan="2"\|Year	colspan="5"\|Regular season	colspan="4"\|Postseason
class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;"
Games	Won	Lost	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Win %	Result
style="background:#fde910" !CLE	1945	95	67	25	{{Winning percentage\|67\|25}}	1st in NAL	4	0	1.000	Won Negro World Series (HG)
CLE\|\| 1946 \|\|79\|\|36\|\|40\|\|{{Winning percentage\|36\|40}}\|\| 3rd in NAL \|\| – \|\| – \|\| – \|\| –
CLE\|\| 1947 \|\|70\|\|42\|\|25\|\|{{Winning percentage\|7\|7}}\|\| 1st in NAL \|\| 1 \|\| 4 \|\| .200 \|\| Lost Negro World Series (NYC)
CAG\|\| 1948 \|\|78\|\|\|27\|\|50\|\|{{Winning percentage\|27\|50}}\|\| 5th in NAL \|\| – \|\| – \|\| – \|\| –
colspan="2"\|Total \|\| 322{{efn\|Trouppe also managed in eight games that ended in ties}} \|\|174 \|\| 140 \|\| {{Winning percentage\|174\|140}} \|\| \|\| 5 \|\| 4 \|\| .556 \|\|