George LeClair

{{short description|American baseball player (1886-1918)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=George LeClair

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1886|10|18}}

|birth_place=Milton, Vermont, US

|death_date={{death date and age|1918|10|10|1886|10|18}}

|death_place=Farnham, Quebec, Canada

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=June 5

|debutyear={{By|1914}}

|debutteam=Pittsburgh Rebels

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 2

|finalyear={{By|1915}}

|finalteam=Baltimore Terrapins

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=7–12

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.36

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=91

|teams=

• Pittsburgh Rebels ({{by|1914}}–{{by|1915}})
• Buffalo Blues (1915)
• Baltimore Terrapins (1915)

}}

George Lewis "Frenchy" LeClair (October 18, 1886 – October 10, 1918) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Rebels and Baltimore Terrapins in the Federal League in {{by|1914}} and {{by|1915}}.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-marion-star-pittsburgh-federal-line/149565974/ |title=Pittsburgh Federal Line-Up |newspaper=The Marion Star |place=Pittsburgh |page=2 |date=1914-03-11 |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-fielders-want-walsh-t/149566708/ |title=Fielders Want Walsh: Terrapin Machine Doomed |first=C. Starr |last=Matthews |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |page=6 |date=1915-08-30 |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=Newspapers.com}} He died at age 31, a victim of the 1918 flu pandemic. George was born in Milton, Vermont.