STATISTICS & HISTORY
Wyatt “Sonny” Boswell was a basketball and baseball star at LIbbey High School in Toledo, Ohio. At age 18, Boswell began his pro basketball career with a two year stint barnstorming with Jessie Owens’ Olympians. In 1939, Boswell was signed by Abe Saperstein to tour with the Harlem Globetrotters for the next two seasons. During the 1942-43 season, Boswell played in the National Basketball League with Chicago tStudebaker Flyers, the first fully integrated team in pro basketball history. Boswell was Chicago’s top scorer and was the third leading scorer in the entire NBL Boswell made seven straight appearances in the World Basketball Tournament. After retiring from basketball in 1947, Boswell became a successful businessman in Chicago before he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1964 at the age of 45.
| SONNY BOSWELL | Height: | 6:02 | Weight: | 175 | College: | None | ||||
| Wyatt Boswell | Born: May 19, | 1919 | Died: Oct 19, 1964 | Hometown: | Toledo, OH. | |||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG |
| 1937-38 | Jessie Owens Olympians | Indep | ||||||||
| 1938-39 | Jessie Owens Olympians | Indep | ||||||||
| 1938-39 | Harlem Globetrotters | Indep | ||||||||
| 1939-40 | Harlem Globetrotters | Indep | ||||||||
| 1940-41 | Harlem Globetrotters | Indep | ||||||||
| 1941-42 | New York Rens | Indep | ||||||||
| 1942-43 | Chicago | NBL | 22 | 88 | 53 | 81 | .654 | 229 | 10.4 | |
| 1942-43 | New York Rens | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Harlem Globetrotters | Indep | ||||||||
| 1944-45 | New York Rens | Indep | ||||||||
| 1945-46 | Chicago Monarchs | Indep | ||||||||
| 1945-46 | Anderson Chiefs | Indep | 4 | 11 | 4 | 8 | .500 | 26 | 6.5 | |
| 1946-47 | Dayton Mets | Indep | ||||||||
| Major League Totals | 22 | 88 | 53 | 81 | .654 | 229 | 10.4 | |||
| POST SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG |
| 1939-40 | Harlem Globetrotters | WBT | 4 | 20 | 9 | 15 | .600 | 49 | 12.3 | |
| 1940-41 | Harlem Globetrotters | WBT | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | .833 | 15 | 7.5 | |
| 1941-42 | New York Rens | WBT | 2 | 13 | 17 | .765 | 47 | 23.5 | ||
| 1942-43 | Chicago | NBL | 3 | 4 | 30 | 10.0 | ||||
| 1942-43 | South Bend | WBT | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | .500 | 11 | 11.0 | |
| 1943-44 | Harlem Globetrotters | WBT | 4 | 5 | 5 | 9 | .556 | 15 | 3.8 | |
| 1944-45 | New York Rens | WBT | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 1 | 0.5 | |
| 1945-46 | Anderson Chiefs | WBT | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | .429 | 17 | 8.5 | |
| Major League Totals | 20 | 72 | 41 | 185 | 9.3 | |||||