Professional Baseball Player. He played in the Negro Leagues during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born one of three children as Benjamin Franklin Adams to Herbert Adams (1902-1983), and his wife Lossie Latham Adams (1901-1967), in Norfolk, Virginia, on October 13, 1936. He played as a pitcher with the Indianapolis Clowns making his professional baseball debut with them in 1952. He also played with the Memphis Red Sox in 1953, the Grand Rapids Black Sox from 1956 to 1957, the Detroit Clowns in 1958, the Detroit Stars in 1959, the Birmingham Black Barons in 1962, the Kansas City-Grand Rapids Monarchs in 1964, and the Kansas City Monarchs from 1955 to 1959, and 1965 to 1969. During this time he also served with the rank of Private in the United States Army, having also played military baseball in Korea in the All Far East Championship. He finished out his professional baseball career playing with the Kansas City Monarchs in 1969, and local baseball teams in the Winter Leagues that were part of businesses in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Grand Rapids Sullivan's, Grand Rapids Fox Jewellery, and Grand Rapids Steel Case Company from 1963 to 1969. Following his professional baseball career, he worked with Abraham & Sons for ten years and for Spartan Foods until his retirement. He passed away in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 21, 2005, at the age of 68. Following his death, his funeral service was held at the Ivy K. Gillespie Memorial Chapel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he was buried with full military honors in Fort Custer National Cemetery in Augusta, Michigan. He was also a member of the Teamsters Union. He was married twice, first to Virginia Lee Woodis Adams (1934-1959), in Norfolk, Virginia, on April 9, 1956, until her death on February 6, 1959, and second to Jean McVeigh Adams (1940-2009). His wife Jean passed away on May 6, 2009, at the age of 68, and she is also buried in Fort Custer National Cemetery in Augusta, Michigan. The couple had five children together, Michael, Margaret, Brian, Karen, and Amy.