Inducted into the Ebony Lifeline All Sport Hall of Fame, Ted Toles was honored in 1941 for his
    outstanding performance and leadership as a New Castle Indians baseball player.  
          Theodore Toles graduated from Bracevill High School in 1943. His first stop after high school was
    playing for Charlie Caffle’s Warren GC’s.
    In 1946 he played for the Pittsburgh Crawfords of the Negro Leagues, often barnstorming with the
    Jackie Robinson All Stars on exhibition tours across the country.  He played with ball players like Larry
    Doby and Warren native Bill White, who was an outstanding major league player. He was signed by the
    Cleveland Indians and spent time in their farm system, as well as in the Philadelphia Athletics System.  
    He also was an outstanding boxer and track star.  Today, he still shoots a mean game of pool!  Ted is
    married to Jean and they are the proud parents of six sons; Theodore III, Nelson, Leslie, Robert, Lonnie
    and Larry, and one daughter; Evelyn.  Other sports notables in Ted's family include NFL's Deryck
    Toles,  Track Star Walter Toles, and Heavyweight Boxing Legend Roscoe Toles.  Ted's sons, Lonnie and
    Larry received full football scolarships to Youngstown State University.                                             



           The road Ted Jr paved for others to follow is an important part of Negro Sport’s History. The racial
    slurs shouted at him, the filthy run-down rooms he stayed in because hotels didn’t allow blacks as guests
    and the meager paychecks were important moments that can’t be forgotten. Ted has been able to
    overcome the racial injustice he experienced throughout his career by never straying from his father’s
    advice... “Don’t let any white man think he’s better than you.”  
    Ted Junior's father,  Theodore Toles, was the first black Deputy Sherrif in Trumbull County in 1942.    
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WBO Heavyweight Champion, Roscoe Toles 13-3-1, relinquished his belt in his first defense against Joe Louis 11-0. The Fight was a shutout when it was stopped in the 11th round. Tasting the canvas in the 2nd, 5th, 10th and twice in the 11th and final round. In what turned out to be a very lackluster bout, Joe Louis delivered just enough damage to win each round. It seemed as if Mr. Louis was afraid of permanently injuring Roscoe.
Deryck Toles, Harding High School outstanding athlete and scholar, Penn State Linebacker, played for the Indianapolis Colts until an injury put him back in Warren, Ohio where he started a program called Inspiring Minds, a non-profit group that matches kids with their dream careers, literally showing them how to get there through field trips to New York, Atlanta and Milwaukee.
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