Alex George (baseball)

Alex Thomas Michael George (born September 27, 1938) is a retired American professional baseball player.

He appeared in five Major League Baseball games at the age of 16 as a shortstop and pinch hitter for the Kansas City Athletics during the 1955 season.

George batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg).

He was signed by the Athletics during their first season in Kansas City out of Rockhurst, a local Jesuit high school.

He struck out in his first Major League plate appearance against relief pitcher Al Papai of the Chicago White Sox,[1] but four days later, on September 20, playing as the A's starting shortstop, he collected his only big league hit, a bunt single off Duke Maas of the Detroit Tigers.