George Shively, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Shively

Negro League Baseball player

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1893

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1962

Profession: baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About George Shively

  • George "Rabbit" Shively (January 3, 1893 – June 7, 1962) was an African-American baseball left fielder in the Negro Leagues.
  • He played from 1910 to 1924 with various teams.
  • He played mostly with the Indianapolis ABCs.He was asked to leave the Indianapolis ABCs to Captain the "Lyon's Black Devils" baseball team of Kokomo, Indiana for part of the 1919 season, then later that year left for the East Coast where he appears to have played the rest of his career. Shively died in 1962 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Bloomington, Indiana.
  • A limestone monument was dedicated on his gravesite in the Rosehill Cemetery on April 4, 2015 in a community ceremony memorializing Shively and 10 other African Americans also buried in unmarked graves.

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