Morten Clark

Morten Clark
Morten Clark
	Shortstop
	Born: December 19, 1889; Bristol, Tennessee
	Died: November 17, 1943 (aged 53); Los Angeles, California
	Batted: Left Threw: Left
debut
	1908, for the Birmingham Giants
Last appearance
	1923, for the Baltimore Black Sox
Teams
	Birmingham Giants (1908); West Baden Sprudels (1910, 1912–1913); Philadelphia Giants (1911); Schenectady Mohawk Giants (1914); Brooklyn Royal Giants (1914); New York Lincoln Stars (1914–1915); Indianapolis ABCs (1915–1922) ; Lincoln Giants (1919, 1921); Washington Potomacs (1923); Baltimore Black Sox (1923);

Morten Avery "Specs" Clark (December 19, 1889 – November 17, 1943) was an American baseball shortstop in the pre-Negro leagues.

He was born December 19, 1889, in Bristol, Tennessee,^[2] and played professional baseball for the Birmingham Giants in 1908. He would play a large part of his career for the Indianapolis ABCs.^[1]

Clark died in Los Angeles on November 17, 1943, and is buried at the National Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. His World War I draft registration card showed him single, as of 1917.^[2]

Almost a decade after his death, Clark received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.^[3] (Some papers have him listed as "Martin" Clark.)

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Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads

[indy1915-1] "A.B.C.'s Take Three From the Sprudels" Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, IN, Wednesday, May 19, 1915, Page 10, Column 6

[1917draft-2] "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZ2M-GQQ : accessed 29 Jan 2013), Morten A. Clark

[poll-3] "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"

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