Art "Superman" Pennington (born May 18, 1923, Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

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) was a Negro League baseball

Negro league baseball

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 player who currently lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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. Pennington played for the Chicago American Giants

Chicago American Giants

Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball...

 (1940–1946, 1950), the Pittsburgh Crawfords

Pittsburgh Crawfords

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named after the Crawford Grill, a club in the Hill District of Pittsburgh owned by Gus Greenlee, the Crawfords were originally a youth semipro team sponsored by...

 (1946), as well as the Mexican Baseball League (1946–1950), the U.S. minor league

Minor league baseball

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 system (1951–1959), and in Cuban

Baseball in Cuba

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 and Venezuelan leagues. He played in the 1942 and 1950 East-West All-Star Game. Pennington retired from Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins

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 in 1985; his house was badly damaged in a 2008 flood that destroyed most of his personal baseball memorabilia. He is included in the Topps

Topps

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baseball card nostalgia set Allen & Ginter; he supplements his retirement income from autographs of cards and other memorabilia.