Samuel Burris
- July 21, 1919
- June 19, 1982
- 62 years
About Samuel Burris
Samuel Burris, 62, American baseball pitcher
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|Samuel James Burris (July 21, 1919 – June 19, 1982), nicknamed "Speed", was an American Negro league baseball pitcher in the 1940s.
A native of Centralia, Illinois, Burris played for the Birmingham Black Barons and St. Louis–New Orleans Stars in 1940. Burris died in 1982 at age 62.
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