# Greg Mulleavy
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{{Short description|American baseball player (1905–1980)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{One source|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Greg Mulleavy
|image=Greg Mulleavy.jpg
|position=[Shortstop](/source/Shortstop)
|birth_date={{Birth date|1905|9|25}}
|birth_place=[Detroit, Michigan](/source/Detroit%2C_Michigan), U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1980|2|1|1905|9|25}}
|death_place=[Arcadia, California](/source/Arcadia%2C_California), U.S.
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=July 4
|debutyear=1930
|debutteam=Chicago White Sox
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=April 13
|finalyear=1933
|finalteam=Boston Red Sox
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[Batting average](/source/Batting_average_(baseball))
|stat1value=.260
|stat2label=[Home run](/source/Home_run)s
|stat2value=0
|stat3label=[Runs batted in](/source/Runs_batted_in)
|stat3value=28
|teams=
'''As player'''
* [Chicago White Sox](/source/Chicago_White_Sox) ({{mlby|1930}}, {{mlby|1932}})
* [Boston Red Sox](/source/Boston_Red_Sox) ({{mlby|1933}})
'''As coach'''
* [Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers](/source/Los_Angeles_Dodgers) ({{mlby|1957}}–{{mlby|1960}}, {{mlby|1962}}–{{mlby|1964}})
|highlights=
* 2× [World Series champion](/source/World_Series_champion) ({{wsy|1959}}, {{wsy|1963}})
}}
'''Gregory Thomas''' "'''Moe'''" '''Mulleavy''' (September 25, 1905 – February 1, 1980) was an American professional [baseball](/source/baseball) [shortstop](/source/shortstop), [manager](/source/manager_(baseball)), [coach](/source/coach_(baseball)), and [scout](/source/scout_(sport)).
Born in [Detroit, Michigan](/source/Detroit%2C_Michigan), his father, Thomas, was a machinist in a Detroit automobile factory, having moved from Canada to the United States in 1903 with his wife, Bertha (Freytag) Mulleavy. Gregory was born on September 25, 1905, their elder child. A daughter, Eleanor, was later born.[{{sabrbio|c6855584|Bill Nowlin|July 18, 2013}}] He attended the [University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy](/source/University_of_Detroit_Jesuit_High_School_and_Academy) prior to beginning his baseball career in 1927.[{{Cite web |title=Greg Mulleavy Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mullegr01.shtml |access-date=2025-12-10 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}]
==Coach and manager==
He joined the [Brooklyn Dodgers](/source/Brooklyn_Dodgers) organization in 1946 and became a longtime member of the Dodger system in both [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn%2C_New_York) and [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles%2C_California). Mulleavy managed the [Triple-A](/source/Triple-A_(baseball)) [Montreal Royals](/source/Montreal_Royals) for the full seasons of 1955–56 and through the mid-season of 1957. On June 14, he was reassigned to the Major League coaching staff of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and he remained as an aide to [Walter Alston](/source/Walter_Alston) after the franchise moved West (1958–60; 1962–64). He served on two world champions for Los Angeles (1959; 1963). Mulleavy was a scout for the Dodgers from 1950 to 1954, in 1961, and from 1965 until his death in 1980.[[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmullg101.htm Coach's page] in [Retrosheet](/source/Retrosheet)]