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(aged 59)<br /><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati, Ohio</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-baseball-bio-batsthrows"><div><b>Batted:</b> Left</div><div><b>Threw:</b> Right</div></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB debut</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">September 19, 1959, for the Cleveland Indians</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Last MLB appearance</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">May 3, 1967, for the Cincinnati Reds</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; 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href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> (<a href="/wiki/1959_in_baseball" title="1959 in baseball">1959</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> (<a href="/wiki/1960_in_baseball" title="1960 in baseball">1960</a>–<a href="/wiki/1967_in_baseball" title="1967 in baseball">1967</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-highlights"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame">Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gordon Calvin "Gordy" Coleman</b> (July 5, 1934 – March 12, 1994) was an American <a href="/wiki/Professional_baseball" title="Professional baseball">professional baseball</a> <a 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He played in <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>. He helped the Reds win the 1961 <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> pennant, and was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame">Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame</a> in 1972. </p><p>In nine Major League seasons, he appeared in 773 games, totaled 98 home runs, 387 runs batted in, and compiled a .273 batting average. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gordy_Coleman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gordy Coleman was born July 5, 1934, in <a href="/wiki/Rockville,_Maryland" title="Rockville, Maryland">Rockville, Maryland</a>. He was a star athlete at <a href="/wiki/Richard_Montgomery_High_School" title="Richard Montgomery High School">Richard Montgomery High School</a>, earning <a href="/wiki/Letterman_(sports)" title="Letterman (sports)">letters</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Track_and_field" title="Track and field">track</a>. 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. </p><p>He attended <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a> on a football scholarship, playing both baseball and football as a freshman.<sup id="cite_ref-rockvillemd1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rockvillemd1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coleman was signed as an amateur <a href="/wiki/Free_agent" title="Free agent">free agent</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> prior to the 1953 season at age 18 and assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Reading_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Reading Indians">Reading Indians</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_League_(1938%E2%80%932020)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern League (1938–2020)">Eastern League</a>. He was an outfielder until being converted to a first baseman in the spring of 1956. </p><p>He was out of baseball in 1957 and 1958 while serving in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army">U.S. Army</a> at <a href="/wiki/Fort_McPherson" title="Fort McPherson">Fort McPherson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Returning to baseball in 1959, with the Indians' AA affiliate <a href="/wiki/Mobile_Bears" title="Mobile Bears">Mobile Bears</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Association" title="Southern Association">Southern Association</a> (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.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coleman made his Major League debut for the Indians on Sept. 19, 1959 at age 25 in a game hosted by the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Bob_Grim_(baseball)" title="Bob Grim (baseball)">Bob Grim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-baseball-reference1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-reference1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After one season with Cleveland, he was traded with <a href="/wiki/Billy_Martin" title="Billy Martin">Billy Martin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cal_McLish" title="Cal McLish">Cal McLish</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> for <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Temple" title="Johnny Temple">Johnny Temple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1960 he split time with the Reds, for whom he played 66 games, and the Reds' AAA affiliate <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Rainiers" title="Seattle Rainiers">Seattle Rainiers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Coast_League" title="Pacific Coast League">Pacific Coast League</a>. </p><p>In the 1961 <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a> against the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, Coleman batted .250 (5 for 20) with 1 home run and 2 runs batted in. His two-run homer came in game 2 at <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium" title="Yankee Stadium">Yankee Stadium</a> in the fourth inning off starting pitcher <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Terry" title="Ralph Terry">Ralph Terry</a> in a 6-2 Reds' win, their only one of the series. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Deron_Johnson" title="Deron Johnson">Deron Johnson</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Tony_P%C3%A9rez" title="Tony Pérez">Tony Pérez</a>. 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 <a href="/wiki/International_League" title="International League">International League</a> the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bisons" title="Buffalo Bisons">Buffalo Bisons</a> and later with the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>' AAA affiliate the <a href="/wiki/Spokane_Indians" title="Spokane Indians">Spokane Indians</a>, hitting a combined .197.<sup id="cite_ref-baseball-reference1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-reference1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gordy_Coleman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After his playing career ended, beginning in 1968, Coleman worked for many years in public relations for the Cincinnati Reds as director of the team's speakers bureau, making hundreds of appearances speaking at civic and other organizations' events. He also served as a <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> on Reds TV broadcasts from 1990 to 1994. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gordy_Coleman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coleman married Marian Huggins (b. 1934) on October 12, 1955; she still resides in Cincinnati. They had a son, Shawn.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coleman died of a heart attack at age 59 on March 12, 1994, in <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati, Ohio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city of his birth, Rockville, Maryland, declared July 5, 2008, (what would have been his 74th birthday) Gordy Coleman Day after a group of Richard Montgomery High School alumni sought to raise funds for a new baseball field scoreboard and plaque commemorating Coleman's life and to name the field in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-rockvillemd1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rockvillemd1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading 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