Editing Joe Gordon (section)

==Early life==
Gordon was born in Los Angeles, on February 18, 1915, to Benjamin Lowell Gordon (1875–1946) and Lulu Pearl Evans (1893–1984).<ref name="bballref">{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gordojo01.shtml|title=Joe Gordon Statistics|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2008-12-09}}</ref> The family moved to [[Oregon]], where he attended [[Jefferson High School (Portland, Oregon)|Jefferson High School]].<ref name="oregonian">{{cite news|title=Portland native Joe Gordon elected to baseball's Hall of Fame|date=December 8, 2008|work=The Oregonian|publisher=OregonLive.com}}</ref> After graduation, Gordon attended the [[University of Oregon]],<ref name="bballref"/> where he also competed as a [[running back|halfback]] on the [[college football|football]] team as well as in [[gymnastics]], [[football (soccer)|soccer]] and the [[long jump]]. Not limiting himself to sports, he also played the [[violin]] in the college orchestra.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reidenbaugh |first=Lowell |author2=Steve Zesch |title=The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Teams |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AR7wAAAAMAAJ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310111054/https://books.google.com/books?id=AR7wAAAAMAAJ |archive-date=2016-03-10 |type=Hardback |year=1988 |edition=1 month=August |publisher=Sporting News |location=Charlotte, North Carolina, US |isbn=0-89204-280-X |page=166 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Playing on the [[Oregon Ducks baseball|Ducks baseball team]] during the 1934 and 1935 seasons, Gordon helped lead the team to a combined record of 30-14 – winning the [[Pacific Coast Conference]]'s Northern Division both years.<ref name="oregonian"/> Gordon hit .358 while at Oregon which ranks him tied for fourth in team history.<ref name="oregonian"/> While in college, Gordon was a member of the [[Sigma Chi]] fraternity.<ref>{{cite journal |year=1947 |title=Society of the Sigma |journal=Magazine of Sigma Chi |volume=66 |issue=4 |page=XI}}</ref>