Clarence Lytle

{{Short description|American baseball player}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Clarence Lytle |image=Clarence Lytle, Pitcher for Chicago Union Giants of 1905.jpg |caption=Clarence Lytle, 1905 |image_size=250px | position = Pitcher | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1879|12|22}} |birth_place = Unknown | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1937|3|4|1879|12|22}} |death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | bats = Right | throws = Right | debutleague = Negro league baseball | debutdate = | debutyear = 1901 | debutteam = Chicago Union Giants | finaldate = | finalyear = 1911 | finalteam = St. Paul Colored Gophers | statyear = | statleague = | stat1label = | stat1value = | stat2label = | stat2value = | stat3label = | stat3value = | teams = * Chicago Union Giants ({{baseball year|1901}}–{{baseball year|1909}})<ref name="freeman1909">[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdSlRualo5NUpjZVk "Chicago Union Giants Close Successful Trip" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, IN, September 25, 1909, Page 7, Columns 3 and 4]</ref> * St. Paul Colored Gophers ({{baseball year|1907}}–{{baseball year|1908}}, {{baseball year|1911}})<ref name="gophers1907" /> | highlights = }}

'''Clarence Lester "Dude" Lytle''' (December 22, 1879{{snd}}March 4, 1937) was an American baseball pitcher in the pre-Negro leagues. He played from 1901<ref name="leland1910">[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdOGxTTXJvRVNWRmc "Frank Lelands' Chicago Giants Base Ball Club" Fraternal Printing Company, 1910]</ref> to 1911 with various teams. He played mostly with the Chicago Union Giants.

left|thumb|250px|1907 St. Paul Colored Gophers In 1907, Lytle signed with the new St. Paul Colored Gophers team. Later that year, a 1907 St. Paul newspaper paper noted that Lytle and fellow St. Paul Colored Gophers pitcher Johnny Davis both had no-hitter games to their credit.<ref name="gophers1907">[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdWno4Tms5b3hpU00 "St. Paul Gophers Base Ball Club" The Appeal, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 31, 1907, Page 3, Columns 3 to 5]</ref>

Lytle died in Chicago, Illinois, on March 4, 1937, at the age of 57.

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==External links== *Baseball statistics and player information from [https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=lytle-000cla Baseball-Reference Black Baseball Stats] and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=lytle01cla Seamheads]

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