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Gordon Calvin Coleman (July 5, 1934 – March 12, 1994) was a Major League first baseman with the Cleveland Indians (1959) and the Cincinnati Reds (1960–1967). He helped the Reds win the 1961 National League pennant, and he has been inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. In nine Major League seasons, he played in 773 games, with 98 home runs, 387 runs batted in, and a .273 batting average. ==Early life and career== Gordy Coleman was born July 5, 1934, in Rockville, Maryland. He was a star athlete at Richard Montgomery High School, earning letters in baseball, football, basketball, and track. He was All-State in football, led the school's basketball team to the state finals his senior year, and in baseball he excelled as both a pitcher and a hitter. He attended Duke University on a football scholarship, playing both baseball and football as a freshman.〔https://rockmail.rockvillemd.gov/clerk/egenda.nsf/d5c6a20307650f4a852572f9004d38b8/2431acb4785826ca852574740052e4ab?OpenDocument〕 Coleman was signed as an amateur free agent by the Cleveland Indians prior to the 1953 season at age 18 and assigned to the Reading Indians of the Eastern League. He was an outfielder until being converted to a first baseman in the spring of 1956. He was out of baseball in 1957 and 1958 while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort McPherson, Georgia.〔http://1967topps.blogspot.com/2010/02/final-card-gordy-coleman.html〕 Returning to baseball in 1959, with the Indians' AA affiliate Mobile Bears of the Southern Association (for whom he had played in 1956), he won the Triple Crown with 30 home runs, 110 runs batted in and a .353 average, earning a promotion to the parent club.〔http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=colema001gor〕 Coleman made his Major League debut for the Indians on Sept. 19, 1959 at age 25 in a game hosted by the Kansas City Athletics and won by the Indians, 13-7. In one at-bat as a pinch hitter, he got his first big-league hit, a fifth-inning triple off Bob Grim.〔http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/colemgo01.shtml〕 After one season with Cleveland, he was traded with Billy Martin and Cal McLish to the Cincinnati Reds for Johnny Temple.〔(Reds trade Temple for Martin, pair )〕 In 1960 he split time with the Reds, for whom he played 66 games, and the Reds' AAA affiliate Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. In the 1961 World Series against the New York Yankees, Coleman batted .250 (5 for 20) with 1 home run and two runs batted in. His two-run homer came in game 2 at Yankee Stadium in the fourth inning off pitcher Ralph Terry in a 6-2 Reds' win, their only one of the series. He was the Reds' starting first baseman in the 1961 through 1963 seasons, then in the following four seasons he split time at first base with Deron Johnson and later Tony Pérez. In 1967, his last in the Major Leagues, he played in two games for the Reds, playing most of the year with the Reds' AAA affiliate in the International League the Buffalo Bisons and later with the Los Angeles Dodgers' AAA affiliate the Spokane Indians, hitting a combined .197.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gordy Coleman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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