found: African American National Biography, accessed March 04, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Peeples, Nat; baseball player; born 29 June 1926 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States; completed Booker T. Washington High School (1944); served in the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor (1944-1946); played professional baseball with the Memphis Red Sox of the Negro American League; reserve catcher and outfielder with two legendary Negro League teams, the Kansas City Monarchs, and the Indianapolis Clowns (1949-1951); promoted to the Atlanta Crackers, making history by breaking the color line in the Southern Association (1954); played the season in Jacksonville, and for the first time in four tries, finally hit Class A pitching (1954); first and only successful year at AA playing for Austin in the Texas League (1958); played in only two games for the Mexico City Reds of the Mexican League (1960); honored by the Memphis Chics, a former Southern Association team, as the first man who broke the color line in the league (1993))
