Chubby Snyder

Alfred Joseph Schneider, commonly known as "Chubby Snyder", was born on August 20, 1890 in Buffalo, New York to Frank and Margret Schneider both of New York.[1][2] Frank Schneider was of Danish and German ancestry, while Margret Schneider was full German.[1] Frank Schneider worked as a contractor.[1] Chubby Snyder had two siblings, a sister, Willis Maischoss (née) Schneider and a brother, Frank L. Schneider.[3]

Before 1914, Snyder played semi-professional baseball in his home-town of Buffalo, New York.[3] In 1914, Snyder joined the Major League Baseball (MLB) Buffalo Buffeds of the short-lived Federal League.[3] Until 2010, Jack Snyder who played with the Brooklyn Robins in 1917 was credited as playing for the Buffeds in 1914.[3] Members of the Society for American Baseball Research discovered that it was in fact Chubby Snyder.[2][3] He played just one game with Buffalo that season.[2] In that game, Snyder made one plate appearance in which he drew a walk.[2] Defensively, he played catcher.[2] Snyder emerged in 1916 as a member a semi-pro baseball team called Pine Ridge.[4]

After his baseball career was over, Snyder served in World War I.[3] He later became a member of the Niagara Falls Rotary Club.[3] Snyder worked as a contractor and was a member of the National Association of Tile and Marble Contractors.[3] He attended St. John de LaSalle Church.[3] On March 24, 1954 he died at Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, New York.[2][3]

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
• Chubby Snyder at Find a Grave