Samuel Harding "Sam" Hairston

Hairston's major league career was seven weeks long, and his family's is still going. He played for the White Sox from July 21 to August 26, 1951. His son Jerry Sr. and Johnny both reached the majors, and so did his grandsons Jerry Jr. and Scott; the five Hairstons tie the Delahanty brothers for the most from one family. Sam himself played for the Birmingham Black Barons in 1944 and the Clowns from 1945 to 1950, and he was an All-Star in the Negro National League in 1948. He died in Birmingham in 1997.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 12 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Waverley Mansion — 18 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 21 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 23 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.

More markers nearby

• Big Joe Williams — 11 mi
• Confederate Decoration Day — 12 mi
• Columbus, Mississippi Blues — 12 mi
• Robinson Road — 12 mi