George Aloys "Showboat" Fisher (January 16, 1899 – May 15, 1994) was a

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player who played in the 1930

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with the

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. He had a .335 lifetime

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(114-for-340) in

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with 8 home runs and 71 RBI in 138 games. He played several games for the racially integrated

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in 1934 under the management of

Ted Radcliffe Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe (July 7, 1902 – August 11, 2005) was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. An accomplished two-way player, he played as a pitcher and a catcher, became a manager, and in his old age ...

. 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.

References

'1934 Jamestown Red Sox', ''Pitch Black Baseball'' (2005)
Retrieved August 28, 2005.

External links

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