# Mule Armstrong

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**George Isaac** "**Mule**" **Armstrong** (July 28, 1885 – April 27, 1954) was a [Negro leagues](/source/Negro_league_baseball) [catcher](/source/Catcher) for several years before the founding of the first [Negro National League](/source/Negro_National_League_(1920-1931)).

While catching for the [Buxton Wonders](/source/Buxton_Wonders), a traveling team from [Buxton, Iowa](/source/Buxton,_Iowa), Armstrong and teammate [Lefty Pangburn](/source/Lefty_Pangburn) were picked up by the [St. Paul Colored Gophers](/source/St._Paul_Colored_Gophers) where he played for two seasons in 1910 and 1911 (the second season the team changed their name to the Twin Cities Gophers).

In 1912, he and fellow players [Dicta Johnson](/source/Dicta_Johnson) and Bee Seldon moved to the French Lick Plutos of Indiana. Armstrong and [Bingo DeMoss](/source/Bingo_DeMoss) moved to the [Chicago Giants](/source/Chicago_Giants) in the following year.

## References

1. ["Chicago Unions Winning" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, August 7, 1909, Page 5, Column 4](https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdNHFkSUhCYVJzalU)

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