John_Davis_(pitcher,_born_1883)

John Davis (pitcher, born 1883)

John Davis (pitcher, born 1883)

Baseball player

John Barton Davis (July 13, 1883 – October 7, 1946) was a Negro leagues pitcher for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League.

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A 1907 St. Paul newspaper paper noted that Davis and fellow St. Paul Colored Gophers pitcher Clarence Lytle both had No-hitter games to their credit.[2]

During World War I, when Davis registered for selective service and the draft, he listed he was working for International Harvester as a "dirt shaper" operator (which may have been a road grader). It also listed that he was married to Lizzie Davis.[3]

Davis died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1946 at the age of 63.

References

  1. [1]
    "Frank Lelands' Chicago Giants Base Ball Club" Fraternal Printing Company, 1910
  2. [2]
    "St. Paul Gophers Base Ball Club" The Appeal, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 31, 1907, Page 3, Columns 3 to 5
  3. [3]
    "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K87Y-FMN : accessed 29 Jan 2013), John Barton Davis
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