Gordon Mackenzie
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Gordon Mackenzie (born July 9, 1937 in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a major league baseball player. In 1956, he was signed as an amateur free agent by the Kansas City Athletics. Mackenzie made his major league debut on August 13, 1961 against the Chicago White Sox. He made it into eleven games that year as a catcher and never returned to the major leagues as a player.
During the winter of 1963, Mackenzie was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the minor league draft.
Mackenzie has been a minor league manager and won the Carolina League championship while managing the Kinston Indians in 1995. He was inducted in the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005.
