Mike McGeary, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Major League Baseball player
Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1847
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Mike McGeary
- Michael Henry McGeary (February 12, 1851 – October 2, 1933) was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned from 1871 to 1882.
- He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball, playing principally as an infielder and catcher, for seven different major league clubs: the Troy Haymakers (1870–1871), the Philadelphia Athletics (NA) (1872–1874), the Philadelphia White Stockings (1875), the St.
- Louis Brown Stockings (1876–1877), the Providence Grays (1879)–(1880), the Cleveland Blues (1880–1881) and the Detroit Wolverines (1882).
- Three of those clubs, the Philadelphia White Stockings, Providence Grays and Cleveland Blues, also employed him as player-manager. In 11 major league seasons, McGeary compiled a .276 career batting average with 484 runs scored in 547 major league games.
- Rumors that he threw games persisted throughout his career, though such rumors were never proven.
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