{{Short description|American baseball player (1900–1984)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Tom Gee | image = | image_size = | position = Catcher | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|2|9|mf=y}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Cleburne, Texas, U.S.}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1984|8|15|1900|2|9|mf=y}} | death_place = {{nowrap|Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.}} | bats = Right | throws = Right | debutleague = Negro league baseball | debutdate = | debutyear = 1925 | debutteam = Lincoln Giants | finaldate = | finalyear = 1926 | finalteam = Lincoln Giants | statyear = | statleague = | stat1label = | stat1value = | stat2label = | stat2value = | stat3label = | stat3value = | teams = *Lincoln Giants (1925–1926) *Newark Stars (1926) | highlights = }}
'''Thomas Henry Gee, Jr.''' (February 9, 1900 – August 15, 1984) 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 to 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&q=tom+gee+Negro+Leagues&pg=PA219|accessdate=18 July 2014}}</ref> He then played for the Lincoln Giants in 1925. In 1926, he started the year with the Newark Stars, but returned to the Giants after Newark disbanded midseason.<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>
He died on August 15, 1984, in Phoenix, Arizona.
==Family life== Gee's brother, Rich Gee, also played in the Negro leagues, and was Tom'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 |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}</ref>
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==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=g/geeto01}} and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=gee--01tom Seamheads]
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