Riley Stewart

{{short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Riley Stewart

| image = Riley Stewart Baseball.jpg

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|3|14|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Benton, Louisiana, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|12|10|1919|3|14|mf=y}}

| death_place = Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.

| bats = Left

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1946

| debutteam = Chicago American Giants

| finaldate =

| finalyear = 1948

| finalteam = Chicago American Giants

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• Chicago American Giants (1946–1948)

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Riley Anderson Stewart (March 14, 1919 – December 10, 2000) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s.

A native of Benton, Louisiana, Stewart served in the United States Army during World War II.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.baseballinwartime.com/negro.htm |title=Negro Leaguers Who Served With The Armed Forces in WWII |publisher=baseballinwartime.com |date= |accessdate=August 4, 2020}} He began his Negro league career in 1946 with the Chicago American Giants,{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=stewa01ril |title=Riley Stewart |publisher=seamheads.com |date= |accessdate=August 4, 2020}} and also played for the Memphis Red Sox.{{cite web|author=Courtland Milloy |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/12/02/call-me-a-friend-of-the-all-star-family/d0bb6a14-4126-41a5-9a2d-7892b5168cbe/ |title=Call Me a Friend of the All-Star Family |work=washingtonpost.com |date=December 2, 1998 |accessdate=August 4, 2020}}

After his playing career, Stewart was a teacher and coach in Shreveport, Louisiana.{{cite web|author= |url=https://irp.cdn-website.com/33d0c3d0/files/uploaded/Demise%20of%20the%20Negro%20Leagues.pdf |title=The Demise of Negro League Baseball |publisher=Center for Negro League Baseball Research |date= |access-date=August 4, 2020}} Stewart and major league slugger and Shreveport native Albert Belle were responsible for renovating Shreveport's historic SPAR Stadium, which was then renamed "Galilee's Stewart–Belle Stadium". Stewart died in Shreveport in 2000 at age 81.