George Bristow (baseball)
Major League Baseball outfielder
George Gates Bristow (May 13, 1870 – October 17, 1939) was an American professional baseball player. He played three games as an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Spiders in 1899. Bristow was 5 feet, 10 inches, and weighed 170 pounds.
Career
Bristow was born in Paw Paw, Illinois, in 1870. He started his professional baseball career in 1894. In 1895, Bristow was a pitcher and captain for the Texas-Southern League's Galveston Sandcrabs. He won 23 consecutive games that year, breaking Jack Luby's "world's record" of 20. Bristow, who played second base while not pitching, also had a batting average of .341 in 89 games.
Bristow spent most of the following season playing for the Newark Colts of the Atlantic League. In 52 games there, he batted .324 and had a 10-7 win–loss record as a pitcher.
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