Rich Gee
{{Short description|American baseball player (1894–1968)}}
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| position = Catcher
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|7|16|mf=y}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|Cleburne, Texas, U.S.}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|1|3|1894|7|16|mf=y}}
| death_place = {{nowrap|Cleburne, Texas, U.S.}}
| bats = Right
| throws = Right
| debutleague = Negro league baseball
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| debutyear = 1923
| debutteam = Lincoln Giants
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| finalyear = 1926
| finalteam = Lincoln Giants
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- Lincoln Giants (1923–1926)
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Richard Raymond Gee (July 16, 1894 – January 3, 1968) was an American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues.
Biography
Gee was born in Cleburne, Texas. He played for the minor league Abilene Eagles of the West Texas League from 1920-1922.{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=Frazier|title=Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball League|date=2000|publisher=Syracuse University Press|page=13|isbn=9780815606581|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydTRTGftqLcC&dq=tom+gee+Negro+Leagues&pg=PA219|accessdate=18 July 2014}} He played for the Lincoln Giants from 1923 to 1926.{{cite web|url=https://irp.cdn-website.com/33d0c3d0/files/uploaded/217932%20George%20Tubby%20Scales%20Single%20Pages.pdf|title= Forgotten Heroes: George "Tubby" Scales|publisher=Center for Negro League Baseball Research|access-date= July 18, 2014}}
Family life
Gee's brother, Tom Gee, also played in the Negro leagues, and was Rich's teammate with the Giants in 1925 and 1926.{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile |url-access=registration |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}
Notes
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External links
{{Baseballstats|br=g/geeri01}} and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=gee--01ric Seamheads]
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Category:New York Lincoln Giants players
Category:Baseball players from Johnson County, Texas
Category:Sportspeople from Cleburne, Texas
Category:20th-century African-American sportsmen
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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