{{Infobox baseball biography |name=Johnny Davis |image=Johnny B Davis.jpg |position=Pitcher |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{birth date|mf=yes|1883|7|13}} |birth_place=Kentucky |death_date={{death date and age|mf=yes|1946|10|7|1883|7|13}} |death_place=St. Paul, Minnesota |debutyear=1902 |debutteam=Columbia Giants |finalyear=1915 |finalteam=Chicago Giants |teams= * Columbia Giants ({{by|1902}}) * Algona Brownies ({{by|1903}}) * Chicago Union Giants ({{by|1903}}–{{by|1906}})<ref name="leland1910">[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdOGxTTXJvRVNWRmc "Frank Lelands' Chicago Giants Base Ball Club" Fraternal Printing Company, 1910]</ref> * Leland Giants ({{by|1905}}–{{by|1906}})<ref name="leland1910" /> * Philadelphia Giants ({{by|1907}}) * Club Fé ({{by|1907}}) * Cuban Stars (West) ({{by|1909}}) * St. Paul Colored Gophers ({{by|1907}}, {{by|1909}}–{{by|1910}})<ref name="gophers1907" /> * French Lick Plutos ({{by|1913}}) * Chicago Giants ({{by|1915}}) }}
'''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.
== Biography == 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.<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>
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.<ref name="1918draft">[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Wcncq5-bHdVXNxcTJ1TWNRSUU/edit "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]</ref>
Davis died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1946 at the age of 63.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Negro-league-stats |lg=ne_cu |seam=186 |brn=davis-022joh}}
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