Jo-Jo Moore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Major League Basrball left fielder
Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1908
Place of Birth: Gause, Texas, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 21-Apr-2001
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Jo-Jo Moore
- Joe Gregg Moore, Sr.
- (December 25, 1908 – April 1, 2001) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the New York Giants from 1930 through 1941.
- Moore batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
- He was born in Gause, Texas and nicknamed the "Gause Ghost." He was 5' 11" and weighed 155 pounds. Moore was an intimidating, left-handed-hitting leadoff man, a line-drive hitter who hit over .300 five times in his major league career and led the National League in at-bats in 1935.
- The free-swinging Moore never struck out more than 37 times in a season, collecting only 247 SO in 5427 at-bats (4.6%). In 1932, Moore enjoyed a 20-game hitting-streak despite appearing in just 86 games.
- His most productive season came in 1934, when he collected a career-high .331 batting average with 106 runs, 192 hits, 15 home runs and 37 doubles.
- A year later he fell to .295, but collected 201 hits with 108 runs, nine triples and 71 RBI, all career numbers, while adding 15 home runs.
- During the next three seasons Moore hit .316, .310 and .302, with a career-high 205 hits in 1936. Underrated because he was overshadowed by more colorful teammates, Moore was a fixture for the Giants in left field.
- He appeared in three World Series (1933, 1936–37), and six times was named to the National League All-Star team (1934–38 and 1940).
- In the 1933 Series Moore had two hits in one inning, and in the 1937 Series he tied a record of the time by collecting nine hits in a five-game series. In a 12-season career, Moore was a .298 hitter with 79 home runs and 513 RBI in 1335 games.
- In 16 World Series games, he hit .274 with one home run and three RBI. After the 1941 season, Moore was sold to the Cincinnati Reds.
- He played full-time in the 1942 and 1943 seasons for the Indianapolis Indians of the Minor League Baseball American Association.
- After his baseball career, he returned to Gause, Texas and raised cattle. Moore died in his hometown of Gause at the age of 92.
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