Tenny Blount

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|name = Tenny Blount

|image = Tenny Blount.jpg

|image_size = 175px

|caption =

|birth_name = John Tenny Blount

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1873|1|29|mf=y}}

|birth_place = Montgomery, Alabama

|death_date = {{death date and age|1934|12|22|1873|1|29|mf=y}}

|death_place = Detroit, Michigan

|occupation = Negro league baseball executive

|years_active = 1919-1933

}}

John Tenny Blount (January 29, 1873 – December 22, 1934) was an American sports executive, who owned the Detroit Stars of the Negro National League. He was a friend of Rube Foster, and served as president of the Negro National League. Blount was a numbers banker and ran a gambling establishment.{{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 }}

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