George Gibson
Catcher, Baseball Player
1880 – 1967
Who was George Gibson?
George C. Gibson, nicknamed Mooney, was a Canadian baseball player who caught for two different Major League teams, starting in 1905 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and ending his playing career with the New York Giants in 1918. In the 1920s and 1930s he served as manager for Pittsburgh and for the Chicago Cubs. Before that, however, Gibson started his managerial career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a AAA Class team in the International League.
Gibson was the nephew of William Southam, founder of Southam Newspapers, the brother of Richard Southam, manager of the London Tecumsehs, and the father-in-law of Bill Warwick, a major league baseball player in the 1920s.
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- Born
- Jul 22, 1880
London - Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Jan 25, 1967
London
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on July 23, 2013
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