George Creamer

Who was George Creamer?

George W. Creamer, born George W. Triebel, was an American Major League Baseball second baseman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played with four different teams in two leagues: the Milwaukee Grays, the Syracuse Stars, the Worcester Ruby Legs, and the Pittsburgh Alleghenys.

On August 20, 1883, after a game between the Louisville Eclipse and the Alleghenys‚ Creamer and fellow players Billy Taylor and Mike Mansell were each fined $100 and suspended indefinitely for drunkenness. In 1884, he briefly managed the Alleghenys, but he lost all the games he oversaw.

Creamer died of consumption in Philadelphia, where he was interred at Greenwood Cemetery.