Bunny Downs

McKinley "Bunny" Downs was a Negro [league baseball|Negro leagues] infielder and manager for several years before the founding of the first Negro [National League (1920-1931)|Negro National League], and in its first several seasons.
A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Downs attended Morris [Brown College] in Atlanta, Georgia. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1914 with the West Baden Sprudels, and went on to play for several teams, including a six-year stretch from 1917 to 1922 with the Hilldale Club. At age 56, Downs received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever. He died in Winston-Salem, [North Carolina] in 1973 at age 79.