About: George Washington (baseball)
Sloan Vernon "George" Washington (June 4, 1907 – February 17, 1985) was a professional baseball outfielder. He played all of 1935 and part of 1936 in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox. Washington's minor league baseball career spanned twenty seasons, from 1931 until 1950. He served as player-manager of the Texarkana Bears of the Big State League in 1947-48. In 1949, while playing for the Gladewater Bears, Washington won the Class-C East Texas League batting title at age 42.
