title: Buddy Hayes (baseball)
text: # Buddy Hayes (baseball)
  
  Melvin "Buddy" Hayes (March 7, 1894 – death date unknown) was an American Negro league catcher in the 1910s and 1920s.
  
  A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Hayes made his Negro leagues debut in 1916 with the St. Louis Giants and the Chicago American Giants. He went on to play for the Toledo Tigers and the Milwaukee Bears in 1923.
  
  