About Gene Layden
Lived 1894 – 1984 (aged 90). Gene Layden was an American baseball player.
Eugene Francis Layden (March 14, 1894 – December 12, 1984) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. Layden played for the New York Yankees in . In three career games, he had two hits in seven at-bats, with two RBIs. He batted and threw left-handed.
Layden was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Layden died on December 12, 1984 at the Forbes Gerontology Center at the age of 90. He had been a supervisor of Moore Park in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Brookline.
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American baseball player
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Gene Layden was born on 14 March 1894 in Pittsburgh.
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Gene Layden died on 12 December 1984 in Pittsburgh.
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