# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lefty-gomez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:43:40.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lefty-gomez"
name: "Lefty Gomez"
slug: "lefty-gomez"
description: "Vernon Louis \"Lefty\" Gomez was an American professional baseball player. A left-handed pitcher, Gomez played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1930 and 1943 for the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators and was a five-time World Series champion with the Yankees. He had the most strikeouts with 1,337 of any pitcher and the most All-Star selections with 7 of any player for the entire 1930s decade. Early on, Gomez was broadly known in major league baseball for his colorful personality and humor."
tagline: "Baseball player (1908-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LeftyGomezbaseballcard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1908-11-26"
deathDate: "1989-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.707496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.leftygomez.com"
sources:
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    title: "雷夫提·高梅茲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ليفتى جوميز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Gomez"
    title: "Lefty Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Gomez"
    title: "Lefty Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Gomez"
    title: "Lefty Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Gomez"
    title: "Lefty Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Gomez"
    title: "Lefty Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%95%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B9"
    title: "レフティ・ゴメス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%ED%94%84%ED%8B%B0_%EA%B3%A0%EB%A9%94%EC%A6%88"
    title: "레프티 고메즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Gomez"
    title: "Lefty Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Gomez"
    title: "Lefty Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1355631"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump