Charles Anthony Snell (born Charles Anthony Schnell; November 29, 1893 – April 4, 1988), was a
Major League Baseball
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catcher
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who played in with the
St. Louis Browns
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. He batted and threw right-handed. Snell had a .211
batting average
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in 8 games, with 4 hits in 19 at-bats, during his one-year career.
After his time, with St. Louis, he played minor league baseball with the Montgomery Rebels and Memphis Chickasaws of the
Southern Association
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in 1913, the two Toronto teams in 1914 and the
Chambersburg Maroons
The Chambersburg Maroons were a baseball team located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. They called historic Henninger Field their home, and had done so since the club's creation in 1895. They played their last season in 2010, ending 116 years of ex ...
of the
Blue Ridge League
The Blue Ridge League was the name of two minor league baseball organizations that operated in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States.
History
The first league operated for the better part of sixteen years, from 1915 throu ...
in 1915.
He was born in
Hampstead, Maryland
Hampstead is a town in Carroll County in the U.S. state of Maryland. The population was 6,323 at the 2010 census.
History
Between 1736 and 1738, Robert Owings was assigned to "cut a new road as Christopher Gist had marked it" south from Conewago ...
, and died in
Reading, Pennsylvania
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.
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1893 births
1988 deaths
Major League Baseball catchers
Baseball players from Maryland
St. Louis Browns players
Montgomery Rebels players
Memphis Chickasaws players
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players
Toronto Beavers players
Chambersburg Maroons players
People from Hampstead, Maryland
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