Dan McClellan (baseball)

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Dan McClellan

|image=Dan McClellan Baseball.jpg

|position=Pitcher / Manager

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{birth date|mf=yes|1878|7|1}}

|birth_place=Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|mf=yes|1962|3|10|1878|7|1}}

|death_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|debutyear=1903

|debutteam=Cuban X-Giants

|finalyear=1913

|finalteam=Paterson Smart Set

|teams=

• Cuban X-Giants ({{baseball year|1903}}–{{baseball year|1906}})[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Wcncq5-bHdVU1uNV9zRXpZa3M/edit "Cuban X-Giants are Champions" The Patriot, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday, September 19, 1903, Page 7, Column 1]
• Philadelphia Giants ({{baseball year|1905}}–{{baseball year|1910}})[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Wcncq5-bHdd204aGp5c3JMcEk/edit "Philadelphia Giants Subdue Leland Giants" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, August 21, 1909, Page 7, Columns 3 and 4]
• Habana ({{baseball year|1906}}–{{baseball year|1907}})
• New York Lincoln Giants ({{baseball year|1911}})
• Paterson Smart Set ({{baseball year|1912}}–{{baseball year|1913}})

}}

Daniel J. McClellan (July 1, 1878 – March 10, 1962) was an American baseball pitcher and manager who starred for top-tier independent black teams before the Negro National League was founded. His career began about 1903, and he continued as a playing manager and organizer of lesser teams well into the 1920s.

File:1904XGiants.jpg

With the Cuban X-Giants in 1903 he pitched the earliest known perfect game in black baseball against a semi-pro team. He switched to the Philadelphia Giants during the 1904 season and pitched for them through 1906. The X-Giants were arguably the best black team in 1903, and the Philadelphia Giants were also arguably the best black team in those three years while McClellan and Rube Foster were regular pitchers. McClellan was described as a "smart pitcher ... to offset his lack of a substantial fastball" by blackball historian Jame Riley.

Sportswriters Harry Daniels and Jimmy Smith both named McClellan to their 1909 "All American Team."[http://negroleagues.bravehost.com/pdf/001968.pdf "The Base Ball Spirit In The East." Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, December 25, 1909, Page 7, Columns 1 and 2]

McClellan was named as "Dream Team" coach in the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier poll of outstanding black baseball players.[http://johndonaldson.bravehost.com/a.html "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"]