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Baseball-reference.com indicates that Artis Demery "pitched in the waning days of the Negro Leagues" and just before he entered the minor leagues. He first pitched in the minors for the Bakersfield Indians in 1953. B-R indicates that he played for the San Francisco Sea Lions Negro League team in the West Coast Baseball League in 1946. I don't know if he played for any other Negro League team.

Artis was the father of major league pitcher Larry Demery and minor league pitcher Art Demery (who was on the KC Royals' spring roster in 1972).

The left-hand photo of Artis comes from the Bakersfield Californian of September 8, 1951 and shows him in a local Bakersfield uniform (not the Indians). The photo on the right shows him in a sweater, and comes from the Bakersfield Californian of August 16, 1949.