But you don't even know half of the story
But he was smart AF. He kept getting jobs on different boats because he loved it. Soon he knew more about the boats than the captains.
So he learned how to pilot, fix and operate every kind of commercial boat.
So he convinced the top white engineer in the country to accompany him to a meeting.
But it wasn't a meeting.
And that's how Cumberland Posey became the first black licensed engineer in the country.
But Angelina was like: "You know what powers the steamboats?"
Cumberland was like: "Say no more."
You may know him as Andrew Carnegie of US Steel
"Cum" Jr. was a great athlete. He became a great football player, and baseball player but his best sport was basketball. He went to college and became a star.
They won the Colored Basketball World Championship.
Cumberland Sr. put up the money for a team Loendi "Big Five"
Then Cum retired and went on to become one of the best sportswriters in the country for the Pittsburgh Courier, which was one of the biggest and best black newspapers
They won THIRTEEN Negro League World Series titles
They beat the Birmingham Barons, who had a pretty good young player:
17-year-year-old Willie Mays.
When the Washington Nationals won the World Series, they were the first team to bring home a baseball championship since THAT team, the Homestead Grays
CumberlandPosey is the only human being ever inducted into both the Basketball and Baseball Hall of Fames