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American baseball player
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Male
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Birth:
28 August 1893
Death:
28 August 1962
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Biography
John W. Goodgame (August 28, 1893 – August 28, 1962) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1910s.
A native of Talladega, Alabama, Goodgame attended Atlanta Baptist College and Talladega College. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1911 with the Leland Giants, and played for the Brooklyn Royal Giants and Chicago Giants the following season. Goodgame died in Birmingham, Alabama in 1962 at age 69.