:Sumpter Clarke

{{Short description|American baseball player (1897–1962)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Sumpter Clarke

|position=Outfielder

|image=Clark, Cleveland, 1924 LOC npcc.11163 (cropped).jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1897|10|18}}

|birth_place=Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1962|3|16|1897|10|18}}

|death_place=Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 27

|debutyear={{Baseball year|1920}}

|debutteam=Chicago Cubs

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 19

|finalyear={{Baseball year|1924}}

|finalteam=Cleveland Indians

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.227

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=11

|teams=

• Chicago Cubs (1920)
• Cleveland Indians (1923–24)

}}

Sumpter Mills Clarke (October 18, 1897 – March 16, 1962) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians from 1920 to 1924.

Clarke was suspended from playing baseball in August 1921; he got into a fight with the manager of the Birmingham minor league team on August 29, 1921 over a missed ground ball. While fellow Birmingham player Pie Traynor was called up to Bigs to help Pittsburgh with their run for the National League pennant, Clarke would sit out the remainder of the season.{{cite news |author= |title=Pirates Call Traynor From Birmingham Club|url= https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1921-08-30/ed-1/seq-3/|work=The Pensacola Journal |date= August 30, 1921|access-date=January 15, 2020 }}