Joe Spencer (baseball)

Joseph Beverly Spencer Jr. (August 4, 1919 – May 17, 2003) was an American Negro league second baseman in the 1940s.

A native of Gretna, Louisiana, Spencer attended Xavier College in New Orleans, Louisiana. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1942 with the Birmingham Black Barons, and played for the Homestead Grays during their Negro World Series championship 1943 and 1944 seasons. In 1946, he played for the Seattle Steelheads of the short-lived West Coast Negro Baseball Association, and finished his Negro league career with the New York Black Yankees in 1947 and 1948.

Following his Negro league career, he spent five seasons in minor league baseball, including the 1951 season when he played for the Elmwood Giants of the Mandak League. Spencer died in Gretna in 2003 at age 83.