Thomas Cafego ( ; August 21, 1911 – October 29, 1961) was an American baseball player who played briefly in

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as an

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. He played for the

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in ."Tom Cafego Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-09. He was the brother of

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George Cafego George Cafego (August 29, 1915 – February 9, 1998) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He played college football at the University of Tennessee, earning varsity letters 1937 - 1939, and professionally in the N ...

, who played halfback at the

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. Cafego supported his family, thereby helping his brother finish school, by playing professional baseball and mining coal in the offseasons.

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