It's with a heavy heart that I pass along news of the death of Joe Henry. The former Negro League baseball player died early Friday morning after suffering several weeks of ill health.
"Prince" Henry, as Joe was known on the ball diamond, played in the Negro Leagues throughout the 1950s, most notably for the Memphis Red Sox and the Indianapolis Clowns -- baseball's equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters. For the past three decades Henry has lived in a small mobile home in Brooklyn, Il
Photo courtesy Sean MuhammadThis photo of Prince Joe Henry will soon be a logo on a line of replica Negro League apparel.Just got word that Sean Muhammad, grandson of former Negro Leaguer (and Riverfront Times columnist) "Prince" Joe Henry, is coming out with a line of baseball collectibles to honor his late grandfather. Muhammad, who's already compiled a book about his grandfather titled Princoirs, says he'll introduce early in 2010 a line of clothing and other keepsakes paying tribute to the B
