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Wallace Gordon

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Wallace Clifford Gordon
Utility player
Born: (1881-04-21)April 21, 1881
Greenville, Pennsylvania
Died: (1955-11-05)November 5, 1955
Painesville, Ohio
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Right
debut
1907, for the Cuban Giants
Last appearance
1915, for the Chicago Black Sox
Teams

Wallace Clifford Gordon (April 21, 1881 - November 5, 1955) was a Negro leagues Utility player for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League.

Sportswriter Harry Daniels named Gordon to his 1909 "All American Team" saying he is "the best man ever to play third base in colored base ball." Daniels added that Gordon was "the peer of base-stealers."[3]

Gordon played for many different teams, and played with some of the top pre-Negro leagues players, such as Dizzy Dismukes, Bingo DeMoss, Oscar Charleston, and Ben Taylor.

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