Clarence "Jack" Matchett (February 4, 1908 – March 19, 1979) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...

Negro league baseball 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 for the

Kansas City Monarchs The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by J. L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 193 ...

and

Cincinnati Clowns The Indianapolis Clowns were a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. Tracing their origins back to the 1930s, the Clowns were the last of the Negro league teams to disband, continuing to play exhibition games into the 1980s. Th ...

between 1940 and 1945."Jack Matchett Negro League Statistics & History"
baseball-reference.com. Retrieved June 10, 2012.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matchett, Jack 1908 births 1979 deaths Kansas City Monarchs players Sportspeople from Palestine, Texas 20th-century African-American sportsmen Baseball players from Anderson County, Texas