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{{Short description|American baseball player (1894–1968)}}
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| name          = Rich Gee
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| position      = [[Catcher]]
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1894|7|16|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = {{nowrap|[[Cleburne, Texas|Cleburne]], [[Texas]]}}
| death_date     = {{death date and age|1968|1|3|1894|7|16|mf=y}}
| death_place   = {{nowrap|[[Cleburne, Texas|Cleburne]], [[Texas]]}}
| bats          = Right
| throws        = Right
| debutleague   = [[Negro league baseball]]
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| debutyear     = 1923
| debutteam     = [[Lincoln Giants]]
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| finalyear     = 1926
| finalteam     =  [[Lincoln Giants]]
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*[[Lincoln Giants]] (1923–1926)
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'''Richard Raymond Gee''' (July 16, 1894&nbsp;– January 3, 1968) was an American [[baseball]] [[catcher]] in the [[Negro league baseball|Negro leagues]].
==Biography==
Gee was born in [[Cleburne, Texas]]. He played for the minor league [[Abilene Eagles]] of the [[West Texas League]] from 1920-1922.<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&dq=tom+gee+Negro+Leagues&pg=PA219|accessdate=18 July 2014}}</ref> He played for the [[Lincoln Giants]] from 1923 to 1926.<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>
==Family life==
Gee's brother, [[Tom Gee]], also played in the Negro leagues, and was Rich'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 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile |url-access=registration |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}</ref>
==Notes==
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==External links==
{{Baseballstats|br=g/geeri01}} and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=gee--01ric Seamheads]
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[[Category:1894 births]]
[[Category:1968 deaths]]
[[Category:New York Lincoln Giants players]]
[[Category:Baseball players from Johnson County, Texas]]
[[Category:People from Cleburne, Texas]]
[[Category:20th-century African-American sportsmen]]
[[Category:Baseball catchers]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]
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