About O'Neal Pullen
Lived 1892 – 1944 (aged 51). O'Neal Pullen was an American baseball player.
O'Neal Pullen (September 8, 1892 – April 19, 1944) was an American Negro league catcher for the Brooklyn Royal Giants and Baltimore Black Sox in the early 1920s.
A native of Beaumont, Texas, Pullen served in the US Army in France in the 509th Colored Engineers battalion during World War I. He began his Negro leagues career in 1920 with the Brooklyn Royal Giants, and later played for the Baltimore Black Sox. Pullen spent the majority of his professional baseball career in the integrated California Winter League, and also was one of the first American baseball professionals to tour Japan.
Pullen died in Los Angeles, California in 1944 at age 51.
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Who was O'Neal Pullen?
American baseball player
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O'Neal Pullen was born on 8 September 1892 in Beaumont.
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O'Neal Pullen died on 19 April 1944 in Los Angeles, California.
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O'Neal Pullen was a baseball player.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). O'Neal Pullen. https://biography.guide/o-neal-pullen/
MLA: "O'Neal Pullen." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/o-neal-pullen/.
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