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Showboat Fisher

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Showboat Fisher
Outfielder
Born: (1899-01-16)January 16, 1899
Wesley, Iowa
Died: May 15, 1994(1994-05-15) (aged 95)
St. Cloud, Minnesota
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
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 runs8
Runs batted in71
Teams

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 (114-for-340) in Major League Baseball with 8 home runs and 71 RBI in 138 games. 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 last DC team to win the World Series, until the Nationals won in 2019.

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