# Rich Gee

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rich_Gee
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rich_Gee.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Gee
> Source revision: 1348482385
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1894–1968)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name          = Rich Gee
| image         =
| image_size         =
| position      = [Catcher](/source/Catcher)
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1894|7|16|mf=y}} 
| birth_place   = {{nowrap|[Cleburne, Texas](/source/Cleburne%2C_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](/source/Batting_average_(baseball))
| stat1value    =.288
| stat2label    =[Home runs](/source/Home_runs)
| stat2value    =5
| stat3label    =[Runs batted in](/source/Runs_batted_in)
| stat3value    =60
| teams         = 
*[New York Lincoln Giants](/source/New_York_Lincoln_Giants) ({{by|1923}}–{{by|1926}})
*[Brooklyn Royal Giants](/source/Brooklyn_Royal_Giants) ({{by|1927}})
*[New York Lincoln Giants](/source/New_York_Lincoln_Giants) ({{by|1929}})
| highlights    = 
}}

'''Richard Raymond Gee''' (July 16, 1894 – January 3, 1968) was an American [baseball](/source/baseball) [catcher](/source/catcher) in the [Negro leagues](/source/Negro_league_baseball).

==Biography==
Gee was born in [Cleburne, Texas](/source/Cleburne%2C_Texas). He played for the minor league [Abilene Eagles](/source/Abilene_Eagles) of the [West Texas League](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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>

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Baseballstats|mlb=819400|br=g/geeri01}} and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=gee--01ric Seamheads]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gee, Rich}}
Category:1894 births
Category:1968 deaths
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:Baseball catchers
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
Category:Brooklyn Royal Giants players

{{US-baseball-catcher-1890s-stub}}
{{Negro-league-baseball-catcher-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rich Gee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Gee) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Gee?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.