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.