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Batting average
  
.335

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Showboat Fisher

Runs batted in
  
71

Home runs
  
8


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Died
  
May 15, 1994, St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States

George Aloys "Showboat" Fisher (January 16, 1899 – May 15, 1994) was a baseball player who played in the 1930 World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals. He had a .335 lifetime batting average in Major League Baseball. He played several games for the racially integrated Jamestown Red Sox in 1934 under the management of Ted Radcliffe.

He was the last surviving member of the 1924 Washington Senators, the only Washington, D.C.-based baseball team to win a World Series.

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