Winfield Welch

Winfield Welch
Outfielder/Manager
Born: (1899-09-09)September 9, 1899 Napoleonville, Louisiana
Died: March 2, 1980(1980-03-02) (aged 80) Pineville, Louisiana
Batted: Left Threw: Left
Negro league baseball debut
1920, for the New Orleans Ads
Last appearance
1941, for the Birmingham Black Barons
Negro Leagues statistics
Managerial Record	227-214
Winning %	.514
Managerial record at Baseball Reference
Teams
As player (incomplete) New Orleans Ads (1919-1920) New Orleans Crescent Stars (1921) New Orleans Black Pelicans (1930-31) Birmingham Black Barons (1941) As manager New Orleans Black Pelicans (1930-1931) Algiers Giants (1933) Shreveport Acme Giants (1935-1936) Shreveport Black Sports (1938) Birmingham Black Barons (1941–1945) Cincinnati Crescents (1946-1947) New York Cubans (1948) Chicago American Giants (1949, 1951)
Career highlights and awards
2× Negro American League Pennants (1943, 1944)

Winfield Scott Welch (September 9, 1899 – March 2, 1980), nicknamed "Gus" and "Moe", was an American Negro league outfielder and manager. Welch spent most of his playing career with minor Negro teams. He is best known as a successful manager, lauded by some as "the Connie Mack of Negro baseball"^[1]