Wyatt "Sonny" Boswell (May 19, 1919 – October 19, 1964)[1][2] was an early African American professional basketball player.
He was born in Greenville, Mississippi and grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where he attended Scott High School.
[3] In 1940, Boswell was named MVP of the World Professional Basketball Tournament after scoring eleven points in the Globetrotters' 31–29 championship win over the Chicago Bruins.
He was one of a group of former Harlem Globetrotters who joined the previously all-white NBL to replace players who had recently been drafted for World War II.
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