Fats Fothergill
Robert Foy Fothergill

Bats Right
Throws Right
Height 5'10.5
Weight 230

Born August 16, 1897
Massillon, OH
Died March 20, 1938
Detroit, MI (Stroke)

Batting  

 Year Ag Tm     G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA  lgBA   SLG lgSLG   TB 
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1928 30 NDA       433  136  29   9   5   67   66                    12      .314  .278  .457  .376  198 
 1929 31 NDA       416  122  21   2  17   56   43                     5      .293  .265  .476  .391  198 
 1930 32 NDA         1    0   0   0   0    0    0                     0   0  .000  .280  .000  .430    0 
 1932 34 NDA    7    6    3   1   0   1    1    5                     0   0  .500  .244 1.167  .366    7 
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
  4 Seasons     7  856  261  51  11  23  124  114                    17   0  .305  .271  .471  .384  403
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 Career High       433  136  29   9  17   67   66                    12   0  .314  ----  .476  ----  198
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 Year Ag Tm     G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA  lgBA   SLG lgSLG   TB 

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards  

Stats are Year-Value-Rank

Triples
1928-9-3



Transactions

January 1, 1928: Drafted 25th round (198th overall) by North Dallas.
April 1, 1932: Signed as a Free Agent by Montgomery.


Biography
After Fothergill's career ended, he returned to Detroit where he played sandlot baseball and also worked at Ford Motor Company in Highland Park, Michigan. He was hired as the coach of the baseball team at Lawrence Institute of Technology in January of 1938, but suffered a stroke that March and died at the age of 39.



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