Laymon Yokely

{{Short description|Negro League Baseball player (1906–1975)}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Laymon Yokely

| image = Norman Yokely.jpg

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|5|30|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1975|11|26|1906|5|30|mf=y}}

| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1926

| debutteam = Baltimore Black Sox

| finaldate =

| finalyear = 1946

| finalteam = Brooklyn Brown Dodgers

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| teams =

• Baltimore Black Sox (1926–1933)
• Bacharach Giants (1934)
• Philadelphia Stars (1935–1937)
• Washington Black Senators (1938)
• Baltimore Elite Giants (1944)
• Brooklyn Brown Dodgers (1946)

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Laymon Samuel Yokely (May 30, 1906 – November 26, 1975) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played college baseball while attending Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina and played professionally from 1926 to 1946 with several teams.{{Cite book |

last=Riley |

first=James A. |

title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |

place=New York |

publisher=Carroll & Graf |

year=1994 |

isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}{{Cite web|title=Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum: Personal Profiles: Laymon Yokely|url=https://www.nlbemuseum.com/nlbemuseum/history/players/yokely.html|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.nlbemuseum.com}}