Lewis Thomas Leyton Gettinger (December 11, 1868 – July 26, 1943) was an American professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

player who played two seasons for the St. Louis Brown Stockings and one season with the

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. He was born in

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and died at the age of 74 in

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