{{Infobox baseball biography |name=Art Pennington |image=Art Pennington Baseball.jpg |position=First baseman |bats=Switch |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1923|5|18}} |birth_place=Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|2017|1|4|1923|5|18}} |death_place=Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. |debutleague=NLB |debutdate= |debutyear=1941 |debutteam=Chicago American Giants |finaldate= |finalyear=1950 |finalteam=Chicago American Giants |statleague=Negro American League |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value= .259 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value= 3 |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat3value= 18 |teams=<!--This forces MediaWiki to recognize the first bullet. Kind of a workaround to a bug.--> ; Negro leagues (incomplete) * Chicago American Giants ({{Baseball year|1941}}–{{Baseball year|1945}}, {{Baseball year|1950}}) * Birmingham Black Barons ({{Baseball year|1945}}) ; Mexican League * Monterrey Industriales ({{Baseball year|1946}}) * Veracruz Azules ({{Baseball year|1946}}) * Puebla Angeles ({{Baseball year|1946}}–{{Baseball year|1948}}) |highlights= * 2× Negro league All-Star (1942, 1950) }}
'''Arthur David "Superman" Pennington''' (May 18, 1923 – January 4, 2017) was an American Negro league baseball all-star player in the 1940s.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ogden|first1=J.R.|title=Baseball legend Art Pennington dead at 93|url=http://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/blogs/community-corner-by-jr-ogden/baseball-legend-art-pennington-dead-at-93-20170105|website=TheGazette.com|publisher=The Cedar Rapids Gazette|accessdate=5 January 2017}}</ref>
Pennington played for the Chicago American Giants (1941–1945, 1950), the Birmingham Black Barons (1945), as well as in the Mexican Baseball League (1946–1948), the U.S. minor league system (1949, 1952–1954, 1958–1959), and in Cuban and Venezuelan leagues.
He played in the 1942 and 1950 East-West All-Star Game.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://coe.ksu.edu/nlbemuseum/history/players/pennington.html|title=Art Pennington|publisher=Negro League Baseball Museum|accessdate=2009-08-06|archive-date=2012-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224122855/http://coe.ksu.edu/nlbemuseum/history/players/pennington.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Pennington retired from Rockwell Collins in 1985; his house was badly damaged in a 2008 flood that destroyed most of his personal baseball memorabilia.
He is included as card # 97 in the Topps 2009 Allen & Ginter baseball card nostalgia set.
His Great Grandfather is David Newton Pennington a Methodist minister and Confederate Veteran. His 4th Great Grandfather is Cherokee Chief Joseph Tuttle. He is a Descended from the British monarchy.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *Figueredo, Jorge S. (2011). ''Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878-1961''. McFarland & Company. {{ISBN|978-0-78-646425-8}}
==External links== {{Baseballstats|mlb=817805|br=p/penniar01|brm=pennin001art}}, or [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=penni01art Seamheads]
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