Fred Snodgrass Baseball player

Frederick Carlisle "Snow" Snodgrass (October 19, 1887 – April 5, 1974) was an American center fielder in Major League baseball from 1908 to 1916 for the New York Giants and the Boston Braves. He played under manager John McGraw and with some of the game's early greats, including Christy Mathewson. He is best known for dropping a key fly ball in the 1912 World Series. Snodgrass was immortalized in the Lawrence Ritter book The Glory of Their Times.

Personal facts

Fred Snodgrass
Birth dateOctober 18, 1887
Date of deathApril 05, 1974

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Baseball player

Career startJune 04, 1908
Career endOctober 05, 1916
batting sideRight
former teams
Atlanta Braves
San Francisco Giants
position
Outfielder
teams
Atlanta Braves
San Francisco Giants
throwing sideRight

Fred Snodgrass on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Fred_Snodgrass_1887