 Fred Snodgrass
New York N.L.
 Lifetime .275 BA
Attended St. Vincent's
College (Los Angeles, CA)
FRED SNODGRASS
Snodgrass, Frederick Carlisle "Snow"
b: 10/19/1887, Ventura, Cal. d: 4/5/74, Ventura, Cal.
BR/TR, 5'11.5", 175 lbs. Deb: 6/4/08
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YEAR TM/L G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG
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1908 NY-N 6 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 .250
1909 NY-N 28 70 10 21 5 0 1 6 7 .300
1910 NY-N 123 396 69 127 22 8 2 44 71 52 .321
1911 *NY-N 151 534 83 157 27 10 1 77 72 59 .294
1912 *NY-N 146 535 91 144 24 9 3 69 70 65 .269
1913 *NY-N 141 457 65 133 21 6 3 49 53 44 .291
1914 NY-N 113 392 54 103 20 4 0 44 37 43 .263
1915 NY-N 80 252 36 49 9 0 0 20 35 33 .194
Bos-N 23 79 10 22 2 0 0 9 7 9 .278
Yr 103 331 46 71 11 0 0 29 42 42 .215
1916 Bos-N 112 382 33 95 13 5 1 32 34 54 .249
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Total 9 923 3101 453 852 143 42 11 351 386 ?359 .275
Fred Snodgrass had a very eventful World Series when the NY Giants played the Boston Red Sox in the 1912 Fall Classic.
The events took place in the deciding 7th game. In a superbly pitched game (Christy Mathewson
vs. Smokey Joe Wood), the Giants in the top of the 10th inning scored the go-ahead run and
were 3 outs away from taking the series. In the bottom of the 10th, Clyde Engle lifted
a fly ball to centerfield that was dropped by Snodgrass. Harry Hooper, the next batter, hit a screaming line drive
that looked like it was going to be an extra base hit, but was spectacularly grabbed for an out by Snodgrass. After
Mathewson walked the next batter (Yerkes), Tris Speaker came up and hit a foul pop up
to the 1st base side. Mathewson called off the first baseman, Fred Merkle, who was closest
to the ball, and shouted for Chief Meyers, the catcher, to make the play. Meyers could
not reach it in time and Speaker hit the next pitch for a single to score Engle with the tying run. Boston went
on to score the winning run and claim the championship. Snodgrass was called by the NY papers the 'goat' of the
series but one could argue that Mathewson was the real 'goat'.
Memories don't fade away easily in baseball. In 1914, during an exhibition game between the same two teams,
Snodgrass was taunted, heckled, thrown at, and finally, was attempted to be tossed from the game by none other
than Boston's Mayor Curley. The Giants were beating the Red Sox badly in this game and the Red Sox pitcher, Tyler,
decided that Snodgrass was the perfect victim for target practice. According to Snodgrass, (as told to author Lawrence
S. Ritter in the classic book on this era of baseball, The Glory Of Their Times), Tyler threw at his
head 4 consecutive times and further insulted Snodgrass by mimicking Snodgrass dropping a fly ball. After the Giants
took the field in the next half-inning, the Boston fans who were stationed behind ropes in the outfield, were "all-over"
Snodgrass. Snodgrass, in response, said that he thumbed his nose to them. Mayor Curley, also in attendance, was
incensed at Snodgrass' reaction and, together with a Boston police officer, came onto the field and demanded to
Umpire Bill Klem that Snodgrass be thrown out of the game because he insulted the Boston fans. To his credit, Klem
did not cave in to the Mayor and Snodgrass stayed in the game.
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