From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)
Page, Theodore R.
(born: April 22, 1903 - died: December 1, 1984)Born in Glasgow, KY, Theodore R. Page was also known as Ted and Terrible Ted. He moved to Ohio when he was 9 years old.
Page played right field and first base from 1923-1937. He batted .362 in 1932-1933, and his lifetime average was .335; he also averaged .429 in exhibition games against major-league teams.
Page was an all-round athlete who declined a college football scholarship in exchange for a contract with baseball's Toledo Tigers. He also played for the Newark Stars, Brooklyn Royal Giants, and Baltimore Black Sox. He also played for the 1931 Homestead Grays and the 1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords. He was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1977.
Page had a temper and once knocked two teeth out of a teammate's mouth during a disagreement. In December of 1984, Ted was found bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat in in Pittsburgh, PA and is buried in the Allegheny Cemetery there.
For more see The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues, by J. A. Riley.
