Maurice Wayne Fisher (February 16, 1931 – May 13, 2022) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who had an eight-season (1949–56) career in pro baseball, but appeared in only one major league game as a member of the Cincinnati Redlegs. The native of

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, was listed as tall and . Fisher's lone big league appearance came on April 16, 1955, against the

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. He relieved

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Jim Pearce in the third

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with one

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, two runs in, and

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s on first and second bases. He retired Joe Adcock on a fly ball, then gave up an RBI

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to Johnny Logan, before getting Jack Dittmer for the third out. In the fourth inning, Fisher allowed the only two runs of his big league career, on a home run to

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and an RBI single to

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, then held the Braves off the scoresheet in the fifth inning before his removal for a

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. Pearce was charged with the eventual 9–5 Cincinnati defeat.Retrosheet box score: 1955-04-16
/ref> After his lone appearance for the Redlegs, Fisher was sent to the

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, where he spent the rest of the 1955 season. In 2

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, Fisher allowed five

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, two earned runs and two walks, resulting in a major league earned run average of 6.75. He registered one

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(of Bill Bruton in the fifth inning).

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