Smoky Owens

{{Short description|Baseball player (1912–1942)}}

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| name = Smoky Owens

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| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = 1912

| birth_place = Alabama, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|09|07|1912}}

| death_place = Geneva, Ohio, U.S.

| bats = Unknown

| throws = RightDefender staff (June 7, 1941). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/2z81tfmeks69v7b "Jacksonville Depends on Them"]. The Chicago Defender. p. 29. Retrieved August 15, 2021.

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1939

| debutteam = Cleveland Bears

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| finalyear = 1942

| finalteam = Cincinnati Clowns

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• Cleveland Bears (1939–1940)
• St. Louis Stars (1939–1940)
• Cincinnati Clowns (1941–1942)

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Raymond "Smoky" Owens (1912 – September 7, 1942) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played from 1939 to 1942 with the Cleveland Bears, St. Louis Stars, and the Cincinnati Clowns. He was selected to the second 1939 East-West All-Star Game. Owens died in a car accident on September 7, 1942. Ulysses Brown also died, while Eugene Bremmer, Herman Watts, Alonzo Boone, and Wilbur Hayes were also injured.{{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 |postscript= }}