title: Ben Holmes (baseball)
text: # Ben Holmes (baseball)
  
  Benjamin F. Holmes (April 3, 1858 – May 11, 1949) was an American Negro league third baseman in the 1880s and 1890s.
  
  A native of King and Queen County, Virginia, Holmes played several seasons for the Cuban Giants between 1886 and 1891. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1949 at age 91.
  
  