{{Infobox baseball biography |name=Wallace Clifford Gordon |image=Wallace Gordon.jpg |position=Utility player |bats=Unknown |throws=Right |birth_date={{birth date|mf=yes|1881|4|21}} |birth_place=Greenville, Pennsylvania |death_date={{death date|mf=yes|1955|11|5}} |death_place=Painesville, Ohio |debutyear=1907 |debutteam=Cuban Giants |finalyear=1915 |finalteam=Chicago Black Sox |teams= * Cuban Giants ({{by|1907}}–{{by|1909}}, {{by|1911}}, {{by|1913}})<ref name="bridgeton1907">[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdVUtxNE8zTTR3aXc "Cuban Giants Won Out 5 to 1" Bridgeton Evening News, Bridgeton, New Jersey, Thursday, July 25, 1907, Page 2, Column 6]</ref> * New York Black Sox ({{by|1910}}) * New York Lincoln Giants ({{by|1911}}) * Cuban Giants of Buffalo ({{by|1913}}) * Brooklyn All Stars ({{by|1914}}) <ref name="abcs1915" /> * Indianapolis ABCs ({{by|1914}}–{{by|1915}})<ref name="abcs1915">[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdTlRXOHl5bFRhSzQ "A.B.C.'s Trim Gunthers" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, IN, Saturday, July 17, 1915, Page 4, Column 4]</ref> * Chicago Black Sox ({{by|1915}}) }}
'''Wallace Clifford Gordon''' (April 21, 1881 - November 5, 1955) was a Negro leagues Utility player for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League.
Sportswriter Harry Daniels named Gordon to his 1909 "All American Team" saying he is "the best man ever to play third base in colored base ball." Daniels added that Gordon was "the peer of base-stealers."<ref name="1909AllAmerican">[http://negroleagues.bravehost.com/pdf/001968.pdf "The Base Ball Spirit In The East." Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, December 25, 1909, Page 7, Columns 1 and 2]</ref>
Gordon played for many different teams, and played with some of the top pre-Negro leagues players, such as Dizzy Dismukes, Bingo DeMoss, Oscar Charleston, and Ben Taylor.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Negro-league-stats |lg=ne_cu |seam=1158|brn=gordon000wal}}
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