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Richard W. Kent was an American businessman and baseball team proprietor based in St. Louis, Missouri. He owned the Calumet Cab Company and was reportedly involved in numbers running.

Together with Samuel Shepard and another business partner, Kent acquired the St. Louis Giants, building a stadium for the team. They later rebranded the team as the St. Louis Stars.

Kent also served as a director of the Negro National League (NNL), a key institution in African-American baseball history.

Silas E. Garner, a notable lawyer, provided legal services for the Calumet Cab Company.

See also

• Calumet City

References

1. Lomax, Michael E. (June 27, 2014). Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: The Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5282-3.
2. ^ Gaus, Ed (July 18, 2001). Beerball: A History of St. Louis Baseball. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-19172-7.
3. Morris, Ann (1999). Lift Every Voice and Sing: St. Louis African-Americans in the Twentieth Century : Narratives. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1253-5.
4. Flaspohler, Brian (2022). St. Louis Baseball History: A Guide. Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-4671-5124-5.
5. Lester, Larry (September 14, 2012). Rube Foster in His Time: On the Field and in the Papers with Black Baseball's Greatest Visionary. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3927-0.
6. "Who's Who in Colored America". 1942.

• Businesspeople from Missouri
• Negro league baseball executives
• African-American businesspeople
• Baseball executives
• 20th-century American businesspeople