James Foster ( 1786 – 1853 ) was a prominent Worcestershire ironmaster and senior partner in the important iron company of John Bradley & Co., Stourbridge, taking its name from his elder half-brother.

Rube Foster, a former ballplayer, founded the Negro National League in 1920.

** Andrew " Rube " Foster, American Negro League baseball player

* Rube Foster — Baseball player, manager and pioneer executive in the Negro Leagues.

In America from the 1840s Stephen Foster had reinvigorated folk song with the admixture of Negro spiritual to produce a new type of popular song.

Foster, “ The Colonization of Free Negroes, in Liberia, 1816 – 1835 ”, The Journal of Negro History ( 1953 )

* Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League ( NNL ) and owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, suffers a nervous breakdown and has to be confined to an asylum.

* Bill Foster ( baseball ) ( 1904 – 1978 ), Negro League baseball player

William Hendrick " Bill " Foster ( June 12, 1904 – September 16, 1978 ) was an American left-handed pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues in the 1920s and 1930s, and had a career record of 143-69.

Foster played for Chicago American Giants teams that won the Negro National League pennant and the Negro League World Series championship in 1926 and 1927, the Negro Southern League pennant in 1932, and the Negro National League pennant in 1933.

In 1926, Foster won 23 games in a row and 26 overall, but his most amazing performance came the last day of the playoffs to determine the Negro National League title.

The St. Louis chapter of the Midwest Clergy Conference on Negro Welfare arranged in 1943 for Webster College to admit a black female student, Mary Aloyse Foster, which would make it the city's first Catholic college to integrate.

The Negro National League was founded in by Rube Foster, independent of Organized Baseball's National Commission ( 1903 – 1920 ).

While Foster was commander of the Department of North Carolina, in 1863 he appointed Horace James, a Congregational chaplain, as " Superintendent of Negro Affairs for the North Carolina District ", encouraging him to support the former slaves in becoming educated, growing their own food, and working.

Appearing as " The Prince of Negro Songwriters ," he was invited to give command performances for Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, and that after Stephen Foster, Bland is " the most distinguished creator of sentimental songs about the Negro and the South " and the " first major black popular song composer " to emerge from the black minstrel show.

Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew " Rube " Foster.

Other statues commemorate Rube Foster, the founder of the Negro National League, and Buck O ' Neil, a former Kansas City Monarch and a member of the board of the Museum until his October 6, 2006 death.

The growth and establishment of the AFL as a major market league spawned a developmental league that Foster also helped co-found, a minor league called Arena Football 2 ( af2 ), in 2000.

The other two partners are Chicago based lawyers Bill Niro and Jerry Kurz, who in early 1989 joined Foster to help secure the patents on the Arena Football game system and re-establish the Arena Football League in early 1990 as a franchised league after successfully removing a small group of limited partners for multiple breaches of the limited partnership agreement that was the basis for operating the AFL during the 1988 season.

A five-time All-Star ( 1976 – 79, 1981 ), Foster was a member of the 1970s Big Red Machine, leading the league in home runs in 1977-78, runs batted in from 1976 – 78, and OPS in 1977.

In, Foster hit 52 home runs, making him the only major league player to belt 50 or more homers in a single season during a 25-year period ( between Willie Mays with 52 in and Cecil Fielder with 51 in ).

Foster finished the 1931 campaign with J. L. Wilkinson's Kansas City Monarchs where on October 4, 1931 he blew his fast ball past a major league all-star team composed of such legendary men as Babe Herman, Joe Kuhel and both Waner brothers, Lloyd and Paul.

Motivated by the Monarchs ' runaway pennant victory, NNL president Rube Foster changed the league schedule to a split-season format for 1925.

* 1948 – George Foster, American baseball player

* 1977 – Jeff Foster, American basketball player

* 1983 – Mark Foster, English rugby player

** Goalkeeper Derek Foster of Sunderland becomes the youngest-ever player to play in the Football League, aged 15 years and 185 days.

Also appearing on the record was bassist Malcolm Foster ( ex-Pretenders ), as The Rutles had no bass player.

* Je ' Kel Foster, basketball player.

Ben Foster is the only player to win the award more than once ( in 2009 and 2011 ).

* Murray Foster is the bass player for Great Big Sea and is part of the band Great Atomic Power, with Dave Matheson, Tory Cassis, Mark Mariash and Jason LaPrade.

Most recently, Foster has been touring as part of Great Big Sea, replacing bass player and singer Darrell Power.

Reunited with Mel Gaynor, Simple Minds hired Malcolm Foster ( ex-Pretenders ) as the new bass player and expanded the live band again by recruiting three additional touring members – backing singer Annie McCaig, percussionist Andy Duncan and violinist Lisa Germano ).

Foster, a French horn player, joined with others in a small brass and reed band in Queensbury in 1816.

* Greg Foster – Former NBA player and one time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers

They are business simulation games, presented in an isometric view in 2D with graphics by Simon Foster, in which the player is in control of a transport company, and can compete against rival companies to make as much profit as possible by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea and air.

Foster Hewitt called the plays and former player Brian Conacher was the commentator for all of the games.

* George Foster ( American football ) ( born 1980 ), American football player

* George Foster ( baseball ) ( born 1948 ), former American baseball player

* George Foster ( footballer ) ( born 1956 ), former British football player and manager for Plymouth Argyle F. C.

In, he became the first player to reach the 50-home run mark since George Foster hit 52 for the Cincinnati Reds in.

Even so, John Pepper, the Comintern's representative in the U. S., and those, such as Charles Ruthenberg, who had criticized Foster for his closeness to Fitzpatrick now directed Foster to make the CPUSA an important player in this new party.