Showboat Fisher
Showboat Fisher | |||
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Outfielder | |||
Born: Wesley, Iowa | January 16, 1899|||
Died: May 15, 1994 95) St. Cloud, Minnesota | (aged|||
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MLB debut | |||
April 24, 1923, for the Washington Senators | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
August 4, 1932, for the St. Louis Browns | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .335 | ||
Home runs | 8 | ||
Runs batted in | 71 | ||
Teams | |||
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George Aloys "Showboat" Fisher (January 16, 1899 – May 15, 1994) was a baseball player who played in the 1930 World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals. He had a .335 lifetime batting average in Major League Baseball. He played several games for the racially integrated Jamestown Red Sox in 1934 under the management of Ted Radcliffe.
He was the last surviving member of the 1924 Washington Senators, the only Washington, D.C.-based baseball team to win a World Series.
References
- '1934 Jamestown Red Sox', Pitch Black Baseball (2005) Retrieved August 28, 2005.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
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