Date:  October 13, 1969.  Donn Clendenon spent 12 years as a major league baseball player, playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Montreal Expos, the New York Mets, the St. Louis Cardinals.  Though born in Neosho, Missouri, Clendenon moved to Atlanta as a youngster and attended Booker T. Washington High School, where he ranked second in his class.  Following high school, he attended Morehouse College.  During his college years, Clendenon spent his summers playing baseball for the Atlanta Black Crackers, the black minor league baseball team that shared Ponce de Leon Park with the (white) Atlanta Crackers.

Following college, he spent a year or so teaching 4th grade before successfully trying out for the Pittsburgh Pirates.  He spent a few years proving himself in the minor leagues and was finally moved up in 1961 to play first base for Pittsburgh, where he spent the majority of his major league career.  After his retirement in 1972, he attended law school at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University.   After losing a battle with leukemia, he died in 2005 in Sioux City, South Dakota.