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Clarence Lester "Dude" Lytle (December 22, 1879 - March 4, 1937) was an American
baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...
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in the pre-
Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relativel ...
. He played from 1901"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 The Leland Giants, originally the Chicago Union Giants, were a Negro league baseball team that competed independently during the first decade of the 20th century. The team was formed via a merge of the Chicago Unions and the Chicago Columbia Gi ...
. 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 In baseball, a no-hitter or no-hit game is a game in which a team does not record a hit (baseball), hit through conventional methods. Major League Baseball (MLB) officially defines a no-hitter as a completed game in which a team that batted in ...
games to their credit."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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1879 births 1937 deaths Leland Giants players St. Paul Colored Gophers players 20th-century African-American sportsmen Baseball outfielders {{Negro-league-baseball-outfielder-stub