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Arthur Fletcher (January 5, 1885 – February 6, 1950) was an American shortstop, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. Fletcher was associated with two New York City baseball dynasties: the Giants of John McGraw as a player; and the Yankees of
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as a coach.


Career

Born in Collinsville, Illinois, he batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Fletcher came to the Giants in after only one season of
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experience, and became the club's regular shortstop two years later. He played in four World Series while performing for McGraw (
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). Traded to the
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in the midst of the season, he retired after the 1922 campaign with 1,534
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and a .277 batting average. Fletcher is the Giants' career leader in being hit by pitches (132) and ranks 29th on the MLB career list (141) for the same statistic. In he replaced
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as manager of the seventh-place Phillies and led the club through four losing seasons, bookended by last-place finishes in 1923 and 1926. In October 1926, he was replaced by Stuffy McInnis. Fletcher then began a 19-year tenure (1927–1945) as a coach for the Yankees, where, beginning with the legendary 1927 team, he would participate on ten American League pennant winners and nine World Series champions. On a tragic note, he served as the acting manager of Yankees for the last 11 games of the season when Huggins, 50, was fatally stricken with erysipelas and pyaemia. Fletcher won six of those 11 games, to compile a career major league managing record of 237–383 (.382).


Managerial record


Post career

Fletcher retired after the 1945 season and died from a heart attack in 1950 in Los Angeles at the age of 65. Arthur Fletcher Field, in his Illinois hometown, is named for him. The field is home of the Collinsville High School Kahoks, the Collinsville Miners American Legion team, and the Collinsville Herr Travelers junior legion team.


See also

* List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders


References


External links


The Dead Ball Era
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fletcher, Art 1885 births 1950 deaths Baseball players from Illinois Dallas Giants players Major League Baseball shortstops Major League Baseball third base coaches New York Giants (NL) players New York Yankees coaches New York Yankees managers People from Collinsville, Illinois Philadelphia Phillies managers Philadelphia Phillies players