George Alois Gerberman (March 8, 1942 – January 7, 2022) was an American professional baseball player. Gerberman, a , right-handed pitcher, had an eight-season (1961–1968) career spent in the

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and

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, but he appeared in one Major League Baseball game for the 1962 Cubs. He was the

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on September 23 against the first-year New York Mets at the

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and allowed only one earned run over 5⅓

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, but did not gain a decision in an eventual 2–1 Chicago defeat. Gerberman had been drafted by the Cubs out of the Brave organization after his debut season in professional baseball. After posting a 13–5 record with 13

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s with the Class B Wenatchee Chiefs in 1962, he was recalled by Chicago when the rosters expanded in September. In Gerberman's lone Major League appearance, he gave up only three

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, but allowed five

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and one home run, to the Mets' Frank Thomas. The long ball — only the second hit of the game for the Mets — tied the game at one in the sixth inning. Gerberman got the next hitter, Ed Kranepool, on a ground ball, but he then surrendered a

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and was relieved by

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thereafter. Gerberman recorded one strikeout (of Jim Hickman) in his only MLB appearance.

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