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Batting average
  
.228

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Charlie Niebergall

Runs batted in
  
8

Home runs
  
0


Died
  
August 29, 1982, Holiday, Florida, United States

Charles Arthur Niebergall (May 23, 1899 – August 29, 1982) was an American professional baseball player and scout. The catcher appeared in 54 Major League games over three seasons (1921; 1923–24) for the St. Louis Cardinals. Nicknamed "Nig," he was born in New York, New York. He threw and batted right-handed, was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 160 pounds (73 kg).

Niebergall spent the entire 1924 season with the Cardinals, getting into 40 games (17 as starting catcher) and batting .293. All told, he had 21 big-league hits, with eight doubles and eight runs batted in. He played in the minor leagues for all or part of 14 years (1920–23; 1925–32; 1934–35), and scouted for the Boston Red Sox after his playing career ended.

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