Al Richter
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Allen Gordon Richter (February 7, 1927 – October 29, 2017) was an American professional baseball player.
Biography
A shortstop from Norfolk, Virginia, he was listed at Script error: No such module "convert". tall and Script error: No such module "convert".. He batted and threw right-handed. Richter was Jewish;[1] he attended Matthew Fontaine Maury High School in Norfolk, the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.[2]
Richter played ten seasons (1945; 1947–55) in minor league baseball and appeared in six Major League games for the Boston Red Sox in the 1951 and 1953 seasons, hitting a single in 11 at bats for a .091 batting average while scoring one run. In four fielding appearances, he made clean plays on his 20 chances and posted a 1.000 fielding percentage. His lone hit came off Spec Shea at Yankee Stadium on September 30, 1951.[3] Richter's best minor league season came in 1951, when he batted .321 with 164 hits in 129 games played at the Triple-A level.[4] Richter died in October 2017, aged 90.[5]
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- Career statistics from Script error: No such module "String".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and Retrosheet
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- 1927 births
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- Baseball players from Norfolk, Virginia
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- Jewish American baseball players
- Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
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- Major League Baseball shortstops
- Oneonta Red Sox players
- Rochester Red Wings players
- San Diego Padres (minor league) players
- Scranton Red Sox players
- University of Miami alumni
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- 21st-century American Jews
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