Editing Ted Radcliffe (section)

{{Infobox baseball biography 
|name=Ted Radcliffe
| image         = Ted Radcliffe.JPG
| caption       = Radcliffe c. 1935<!--The inclusion of this image is believed to be fair use in this biography because it is a historically significant photo of a famous individual that is only being used for informational purposes and is reproduced at a much lower resolution than the original. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article in a manner that is historically significant to the general public.-->
|birth_date={{Birth date|1902|7|7}}
|birth_place=[[Mobile, Alabama]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2005|8|11|1902|7|7}}
|death_place=[[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.
|position=[[Pitcher]], [[Catcher]]
|team = 
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|debutleague = [[Negro league baseball]]
|debutdate=
|debutyear= 1929
|debutteam= [[Chicago American Giants]]
|finalleague = [[Negro league baseball]]
|finaldate= 
|finalyear= 1946
|finalteam= [[Homestead Grays]]
|stat1label=Win–loss record
|stat1value=32–24
|stat2label=[[Earned run average]]
|stat2value= 3.68
|stat3label=[[Strikeout]]s
|stat3value=216
|stat4label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat4value=.271
|stat5label=[[Home run]]s
|stat5value=17
|stat6label=[[Run batted in]]
|stat6value=183
|stat7label=Managerial record
|stat7value=165–148–5
|teams=
'''As player'''
{{bulleted list | [[Detroit Stars]] (1928) | [[Chicago American Giants]] (1929, 1934, 1942–1943) | [[St. Louis Stars (baseball)|St. Louis Stars]] (1930) | [[Homestead Grays]] (1931) | [[Pittsburgh Crawfords]] (1932) | [[Columbus Blue Birds]] (1933) | [[New York Black Yankees]] (1933) | [[Bismarck Churchills]] (1935) | [[Brooklyn Eagles]] (1935) | [[Cincinnati Tigers]] (1937) | [[Memphis Red Sox]] (1939, 1941) | [[Birmingham Black Barons]] (1943–1944) | [[Louisville Buckeyes]] | [[Kansas City Monarchs]] (1945) | [[Homestead Grays]] (1946)}}
'''As manager'''
* [[Cincinnati Tigers]] (1937) 
* [[Memphis Red Sox]] (1938–1939, 1941)
* [[Chicago American Giants]] (1943)
|highlights=
*6× [[East-West All Star Game]] (1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944)
*[[Negro American League]] pennant (1938)
}}
'''Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe''' (July 7, 1902&nbsp;– August 11, 2005) was an American professional baseball player in the [[Negro leagues]]. An accomplished [[two-way player]], he played as a [[pitcher]] and a [[catcher]], became a manager, and in his old age became a popular ambassador for the game. He is one of only a handful of professional baseball players who lived past their 100th birthdays, next to [[Red Hoff]] (who lived to 107) and fellow Negro leaguer [[Silas Simmons]] (who lived to age 111).

Newspaperman [[Damon Runyon]] coined the nickname "Double Duty" because Radcliffe played as a catcher and as a pitcher in the successive games of a 1932 [[Doubleheader (baseball)|doubleheader]] between the [[Pittsburgh Crawfords]] and the [[New York Black Yankees]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ted Radcliffe |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Radcliffe |website=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=18 January 2021}}</ref> In the first of the two games at [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]], Radcliffe caught the pitcher [[Satchel Paige]] for a [[shutout]] and then pitched a shutout in the second game. Runyon wrote that Radcliffe "was worth the price of two admissions." Radcliffe considered his year with the 1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords to be one of the highlights of his career.<ref name=autogenerated2>McNary 1994</ref>

Of the six [[East–West All-Star Game]]s in which he played, Radcliffe pitched in three and was a catcher in three. He also pitched in two and caught in six other All-Star games. He hit .376 (11-for-29) in nine exhibition games against [[Major League Baseball|major leaguers]].<ref name=autogenerated2 />