Belmont County Sheriffs Residence Museum Lecture Series

The Belmont County Sheriff’s Residence Museum is excited to announce the second event in its new lecture series.  On Thursday, October 8, 2015, at 7 PM, Daniel L. Frizzi, Jr. of Bellaire will be giving a presentation at the museum on King Solomon “Sol” White.

Born in Bellaire in 1868, King Solomon “Sol” White grew up loving baseball.  He was an avid fan of the local amateur team, the Bellaire Globes, and was invited one day during a game to play for them when one of their players had their finger smashed.  He was attracting attention to his skills at the age 16 while playing for the Wheeling Green Stockings, and in 1887 he joined the Pittsburgh Keystones of the National Colored Base Ball League.  He would then go on to play for and also manage several teams, and act as an executive in the Negro Baseball Leagues.  In 1907, White also wrote one of the first definitive books on the history of black baseball titled “History of Colored Base Ball by Sol White.”