Mule Suttles

CTL-E-6230 · Person · other · 1901–1966; playing career 1921–1944

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Combined Graph record U-07425 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6230.

George "Mule" Suttles was a slugging first baseman and outfielder whose Negro leagues career ran from 1921 to 1944, spanning almost the entire golden era of segregated Black baseball. Born March 31, 1901, he emerged from Alabama coal country, where he had worked in the mines as a teenager, and joined the Birmingham Black Barons in 1923. He starred for the St. Louis Stars, helping them to Negro National League titles, and later played for the Chicago American Giants and the Newark Eagles, where he formed a celebrated infield alongside Willie Wells and Ray Dandridge. A right-handed hitter noted for tape-measure home runs, he topped .300 in twelve full seasons and was selected to five East-West Classic All-Star Games, hitting the first home run in that event in 1933 and a game-winning three-run homer in 1935. Fans greeted his at-bats with chants recorded by SABR. He managed the Newark Eagles in 1943 and 1944 and mentored younger players. Suttles died July 9, 1966, in Newark, New Jersey, and was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

The record

• Also known as: George Suttles, George "Mule" Suttles

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 6 — 747 Program, Wave 13; sixth Scan Tail packet at the founder’s 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): Gate A CLEAR (script + hand-checked 2026-10-16): no Mule Suttles entity, alias, or variant in the live graph (3,910 entities). ID CTL-E-6230 free at staging. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger — scan string #2446 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json), banked in the Scan Tail Wave 5 reserve (Appendix E), re-screened CLEAR against the live graph at 3,910 entities by this wave. The supply supplied the name only; every fact is sourced under CTL-GOV-004. SCOPE GATE: Negro leagues first baseman/outfielder and manager; scan rank #2446, Scan Tail Wave 6 Batch D. Not the similarly named other Suttles family members. Vital status: DECEASED. Born March 31, 1901 (Hall of Fame: Edgewater, Alabama; SABR: Blocton, Alabama — place conflict shown, not blended; SABR notes the family had moved to the Edgewater Coal Mining Camp by 1920). Died July 9, 1966, Newark, New Jersey (Hall of Fame; SABR adds death from cancer and burial at Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield, New Jersey). STATISTICS — Fragmentary by era; sources disagree and are not blended. SABR (accessed 2026-10-16), citing Seamheads, estimates a .317 career batting average, and gives .322 with 33 home runs and 125 RBIs in 136 Newark games (1936–1940). The Hall of Fame (accessed 2026-10-16) gives no career average, but records 12 full seasons over .300 and five East-West selections. No single career home-run total is asserted here because opened sources give none in common. MEDIA: photo HELD (HELD — candidate: SABR BioProject portrait of Suttles (SuttlesMule.jpg, as carried on the SABR page opened 2026-10-16); no license claimed — file-level rights read required under CTL-PHOTO-001 before any use.); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6230-mule-suttles.svg); video HELD (HELD — no Short in the CTL Shorts Link Map (2026-10-15) under Suttles, George Suttles, or Mule; no near-miss title found in the map.); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map N/A. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record’s sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (HELD — no Short in the CTL Shorts Link Map (2026-10-15) under Suttles, George Suttles, or Mule; no near-miss t) | audio = HELD (HELD: No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging.)

Relationships

• Birmingham Black Barons — played for
  SABR: left coal mining in 1923 to play professional baseball for the Birmingham Black Barons; Hall of Fame lists Birmingham among the great squads he starred with.
• Chicago American Giants — affiliated with
  SABR: played for the Chicago American Giants 1933–1935; Hall of Fame lists the American Giants among his star teams.
• St. Louis Stars — played for
  SABR: joined the St. Louis Stars in 1926; helped them win Negro National League titles, including the 1930 championship series.

Referenced by

• Willie Wells — collaborated with → this record

Sources

• National Baseball Hall of Fame, Suttles, Mule (accessed 2026-10-16) — born March 31, 1901, Edgewater, Ala.; career 1921–1944; starred with Newark Eagles, Chicago American Giants and Birmingham Black Barons; topped .300 in 12 full seasons; five East-West Classic selections, first home run in the event in 1933; passed away July 9, 1966; inducted 2006 — https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/suttles-mule (primary source · build store)
• SABR BioProject, Mule Suttles (Stephen V. Rice) (accessed 2026-10-16) — born March 31, 1901, Blocton, Alabama; worked in coal mines as a teenager; joined Birmingham Black Barons 1923; St. Louis Stars from 1926 and Negro National League titles in 1928 and 1930; Chicago American Giants 1933–1935; Newark Eagles 1936–1940 with a .322 average in 136 games per Seamheads; managed Newark 1943–1944; career average estimated .317 by Seamheads; died of cancer in Newark in July 1966; buried Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield, New Jersey — https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/mule-suttles/ (build store)
• BlackPast, 'George “Mule” Suttles (1901–1966)', accessed 2026-11-03 (build store)

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