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Wallace Clifford Gordon

Utility player

Born: April 21, 1881
Greenville, Pennsylvania

Died: November 5, 1955
Painesville, Ohio

Batted: Unknown

Threw: Right

debut

1907, for the Cuban Giants

Last appearance

1915, for the Chicago Black Sox

Teams

Cuban Giants (1907–1909, 1911, 1913)
New York Black Sox (1910)
New York Lincoln Giants (1911)
Cuban Giants of Buffalo (1913)
Brooklyn All Stars (1914)
Indianapolis ABCs (1914–1915)
Chicago Black Sox (1915)

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."

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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