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Batting average
  
.270

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Harry Wolter


Runs batted in
  
167

Home runs
  
12

Education
  
Santa Clara University

Harry Wolter

Died
  
July 6, 1970, Palo Alto, California, United States

Harry Meiggs Wolter (July 11, 1884 – July 7, 1970) was a professional baseball player. He played all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds (1907), Pittsburgh Pirates (1907), St. Louis Cardinals (1907), Boston Red Sox (1909), New York Highlanders/Yankees (1910–13) and Chicago Cubs (1917), primarily as an outfielder.

Harry Wolter Harry Wolter Society for American Baseball Research

Playing career

In seven major league seasons, Wolter played in 588 games and had 1,907 at bats, 286 runs, 514 hits, 69 doubles, 42 triples, 12 home runs, 167 RBI, 95 stolen bases, 268 walks, .270 batting average, .365 on-base percentage, .369 slugging percentage, 703 total bases and 56 sacrifice hits.

On April 20, 1912 he got the first ever hit at Fenway Park.

As a pitcher, Wolter had a 4–6 win-loss record in 15 games, 9 as a starter, with 1 complete game, 5 games finished, 84 innings pitched, 96 hits allowed, 40 runs allowed, 35 earned runs allowed, 1 home run allowed, 50 walks allowed, 29 strikeouts, 6 hit batsmen, 3 wild pitches, 338 batters faced, a 3.75 ERA and a 1.738 WHIP.

Following his playing career, he coached baseball at Stanford University for 26 years, in 1916, from 1923 to 1943, and again from 1946 to 1949.

He died in Palo Alto, California at the age of 85.

References

Harry Wolter Wikipedia