{{Short description|American baseball player (1894–1968)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Rich Gee | image = | image_size = | 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 = MLB | debutdate = | debutyear = 1923 | debutteam = New York Lincoln Giants | finalleague =MLB | finalyear = 1929 | finalteam = New York Lincoln Giants | statleague =MLB | stat1label =Batting average | stat1value =.288 | stat2label =Home runs | stat2value =5 | stat3label =Runs batted in | stat3value =60 | teams = *New York Lincoln Giants ({{by|1923}}–{{by|1926}}) *Brooklyn Royal Giants ({{by|1927}}) *New York Lincoln Giants ({{by|1929}}) | highlights = }}
'''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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> He played for the Lincoln Giants from 1923 to 1926.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="Riley">{{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 }}</ref>
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==External links== {{Baseballstats|mlb=819400|br=g/geeri01}} and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=gee--01ric Seamheads]
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