Steel Arm Dickey
Walter Claude Dickey
- Bats Left, Throws Left
- Debut 1922
- Final Game 1922
- Born June 2, 1896 in Morganton, GA USA
- Died March 11, 1923 in Etowah, TN USA
Biographical Information[edit]
Steel Arm Dickey was stabbed to death in a fight with white men in Etowah, TN. Some newspapers reported the cause of the altercation to be the sale of moonshine liquor and others that the two white men had come to an African-American neighborhood seeking trouble and had found it.
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