George Spencer
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1926 –
Who is George Spencer?
George Elwell Spencer is a retired American pitcher in Major League Baseball. A right-hander, he was primarily a relief pitcher for the New York Giants and the Detroit Tigers. Spencer stood 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 215 pounds.
A graduate of Bexley High School in Columbus and The Ohio State University, where he played quarterback on the OSU varsity football team, Spencer was a key member of the 1951 Giants' pitching staff, leading the club in saves and winning ten of 14 decisions, including a key August start over the front-running Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants would famously overcome a 13½-game, mid-August deficit to tie Brooklyn on the season's final day, then defeated the Dodgers for the National League pennant on Bobby Thomson's historic Game 3 home run.
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- Born
- Jul 7, 1926
Columbus - Profession
- Education
- Ohio State University
- Lived in
- Columbus
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on July 23, 2013
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