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Al Richter
Allen Gordon Richter (February 7, 1927 – October 29, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. BiographyA shortstop from Norfolk, Virginia, he was listed at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg). 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] See alsoReferences
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