# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oscar-charleston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:54.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oscar-charleston"
name: "Oscar Charleston"
slug: "oscar-charleston"
description: "Oscar McKinley Charleston was an American center fielder, first baseman and manager in Negro league baseball and the Cuban League. Over his 43-year baseball career, Charleston played or managed with more than a dozen teams, including the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Negro league baseball's leading teams in the 1930s. He also played nine winter seasons in Cuba and in numerous exhibition games against white major leaguers. He was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976."
tagline: "American Hall of Fame baseball player (1896-1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oscar_Charleston.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1896-10-14"
deathDate: "1954-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.509044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "오스카 찰스턴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "أوسكار تشارلستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اوسكار تشارلستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Charleston"
    title: "Oscar Charleston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Charleston"
    title: "Oscar Charleston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Charleston"
    title: "Oscar Charleston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Charleston"
    title: "Oscar Charleston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "オスカー・チャールストン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3063511"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump