George Spencer (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1926
Place of Birth: Bexley, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 10-Sep-2014
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About George Spencer (baseball)
- George Elwell Spencer (July 7, 1926 – September 10, 2014) was an 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 (1.85 m) tall and weighed 215 pounds (98 kg). A graduate of Bexley High School 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 13?1/2-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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