John Davis
American baseball player
Died when: 63 years 86 days (758 months)Star Sign: Cancer

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