Clifford Nolen Richardson (January 18, 1903 – September 25, 1951) was a

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. He was born in

Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020 ...

and attended college at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

where he was a member of the

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fraternity. Richardson played for the Detroit Tigers,

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and Cincinnati Reds in a span of six seasons between 1929 and 1939. In 168 career games, he collected 117 hits in 473 at bats for a .247 batting average. In between, Richardson was the

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and team captain of the 1937 Newark Bears, which is widely regarded as the best in Minor League Baseball history.Minor League Baseball Top Teams
''MiLB.com.'' Retrieved on February 20, 2018. Afterwards, Richardson became the head baseball coach at the

. Richardson died on September 25, 1951 in

Athens, Georgia Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the sta ...

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