About Dusty Decker
Lived 1911 – 1962 (aged 50). Dusty Decker was an American baseball player and politician.
Charles Edward "Dusty" Decker (October 19, 1911 – October 11, 1962) was an American professional baseball shortstop in the Negro leagues. He played with the Indianapolis ABCs and Montgomery Grey Sox in 1932 and the Detroit Stars.
Early life and career Charles Edward Decker was born on October 19, 1911, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the oldest of two sons born to Edward Decker and Inez Caldwell. Approximately one month later, the family moved to Evansville, Indiana.
Decker graduated from Frederick Douglass High School before briefly attending Fisk University in 1928. The following two years, he majored in physical education at Lincoln University while winning All-Midwestern honors as quarterback for the Blue Tigers, acquiring an alternate nickname, "the Human Catapult", in the process.
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Who was Dusty Decker?
American baseball player and politician
When was Dusty Decker born?
Dusty Decker was born on 19 October 1911 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
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Dusty Decker died on 11 October 1962 in Evansville, Indiana.
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Dusty Decker was a baseball player and politician.
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Dusty Decker was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Dusty Decker. https://biography.guide/dusty-decker/
MLA: "Dusty Decker." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/dusty-decker/.
Chicago: "Dusty Decker." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/dusty-decker/.
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