:George Hale (baseball)

{{short description|American baseball player (1894-1945)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=George Hale

|position=Catcher

|image=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1894|8|3}}

|birth_place=Dexter, Kansas

|death_date={{death date and age|1945|11|1|1894|8|3}}

|death_place=Wichita, Kansas

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=August 24

|debutyear=1914

|debutteam= St. Louis Browns

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 26

|finalyear=1918

|finalteam= St. Louis Browns

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.175

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=9

|teams=

• St. Louis Browns ({{mlby|1914}}, {{mlby|1916}}–{{mlby|1918}})

}}

George Wagner Hale (August 3, 1894 – November 1, 1945) was a professional baseball player. Nicknamed "Ducky", he was a catcher over parts of four seasons (1914, 1916–18) with the St. Louis Browns. For his career, he compiled a .175 batting average in 103 at-bats, with nine runs batted in.

He was born in Dexter, Kansas and died in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 51.