Arthur Lee Daney (July 9, 1904 – March 11, 1988) was an American

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. He played for the

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during the season. Daney's father was a full-blooded Choctaw and his mother was one-half Choctaw and one-half

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. He was the youngest of eleven children and attended the

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. Athletics coach

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discovered Daney playing

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baseball in

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and signed him to a contract before the start of the 1928 season.

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