David Wyatt was born about June 19, 1871 in Nelsonville, Ohio and was a

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and

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for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League. He attended

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. His earliest records show he played for the

Hot Springs Arlingtons The Hot Springs Arlingtons were a professional Negro leagues baseball team based in Hot Springs, Arkansas from 1896 to 1904. The Hot Springs Arlingtons played as members of the Southern Negro League and hosted home games at Whittington Park. The ...

in 1897 and the

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as early as 1898. He was present on team lists for the

in 1902 and 1903. And he played for the

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in 1906. Wyatt made an appearance at a 1907 meeting at the

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Newspaper Building, where baseball club owners met to discuss a possible National Colored Base Ball League in 1908. Wyatt managed the Illinois Giants by 1909. Dave Wyatt died at the age of 78 on December 10, 1950 in Cook County, IL.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyatt, Dave Negro league baseball managers Leland Giants players People from Nelsonville, Ohio 1871 births 1950 deaths Hot Springs Arlingtons players Baseball players from Ohio Chicago Unions players Indiana State University alumni 20th-century African-American people