:George Creamer

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=George Creamer

|position=Second baseman

|image=CreamerGeorge.jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date=1855

|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1886|06|27|1855}}

|death_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate= May 1

|debutyear= 1878

|debutteam= Milwaukee Grays

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate= October 2

|finalyear= 1884

|finalteam= Pittsburgh Alleghenys

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.215

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=99

|teams=

As player

Milwaukee Grays ({{Baseball year|1878}})
Syracuse Stars ({{Baseball year|1879}})
Worcester Ruby Legs ({{Baseball year|1880}}–{{Baseball year|1882}})
Pittsburgh Alleghenys ({{Baseball year|1883}}–{{Baseball year|1884}})

As manager

Pittsburgh Alleghenys ({{Baseball year|1884}})

|highlights=

}}

George W. Creamer (1855 – June 27, 1886), born George W. Triebel, was an American Major League Baseball second baseman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played with four teams in two leagues: the Milwaukee Grays ({{Baseball year|1878}}), the Syracuse Stars ({{Baseball year|1879}}), the Worcester Ruby Legs ({{Baseball year|1880}}–{{Baseball year|1882}}), and the Pittsburgh Alleghenys ({{Baseball year|1883}}–{{Baseball year|1884}}).{{cite web| title = George Creamer's Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/Pcreag101.htm | access-date = 2008-03-06 }}

On August 20, 1883, after a game between the Louisville Eclipse and the Alleghenys‚ Creamer and fellow players Billy Taylor and Mike Mansell were each fined $100 and suspended indefinitely for drunkenness.{{cite web| title = 1883 Chronology | work = baseballlibrary.com | url=http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1883 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206205029/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1883 | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 6, 2007 | access-date = 2008-03-06 }}

In {{Baseball year|1884}}, the Alleghenys finished with a 30–78–2 record and went through five managers. Creamer was the fourth of these managers, serving from August 6 to August 16 and losing all eight games he managed.{{cite web |title=1884 Pittsburgh Alleghenys Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PIT/1884.shtml |website=Baseball-Reference.com |access-date=October 31, 2021 |language=en}}

Creamer was signed by the Baltimore Orioles before the 1885 season, but in March, newspaper reports said that he was very sick with tuberculosis and not expected to play baseball again.{{cite news |title=Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/32973730/ |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=March 15, 1885}} Players from the Chicago White Stockings took up a collection for Creamer and gave him $65. A benefit for him was scheduled for May 1 at the Academy of Music in Pittsburgh.{{cite news |title=Diamond chips |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/137820811/ |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=April 25, 1885}} A July 1885 newspaper article referred to a benefit that raised $200 for Creamer.{{cite news |title=Diamond dust |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/584969002/ |work=Memphis Avalanche |date=July 25, 1885}}

In early May 1886, newspaper reports described Creamer as very ill in Waterbury, Connecticut.{{cite news |title=Notes and comments |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/32444026/ |work=The Courier-Journal |date=May 7, 1886 | page=6}} He died in Philadelphia, where he was interred at Greenwood Cemetery.Philadelphia Death Certificate, retrieved from familysearch.org

Creamer was a member of the Knights of Pythias.{{cite news |title=Base-ball |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/262597894/ |work=Black Hills Weekly Herald |date=July 17, 1886 |language=en}}