George Louis Wheeler (born George L. Heroux, August 3, 1869 – March 23, 1946) was a professional baseball

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

. He played all or part of four seasons in

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from 1896 to 1899 for the

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. Wheeler, primarily a right-handed pitcher, threw left-handed on a handful of occasionsGeorge Wheeler's page at Baseball-Reference
/ref> to become one of the few known " switch pitchers" in MLB history.

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