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Negro League Baseball player
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Male
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Birth:
12 March 1907(Moberly, USA)
Death:
6 February 1968(Saint Paul, USA)
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The details
Biography
Leroy Matlock (March 12, 1907 - February 6, 1968) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues. He played from 1929 to 1938 with several teams. He was selected to the 1935 and the 1936 East-West All-Star Game. Matlock was considered one of the top left handed pitchers of the 1930s.
At age 45, Matlock received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.
He is listed as buried in the Elmhurst Cemetery in St. Paul, Minnesota.