Al Richter

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Al Richter

|position=Shortstop

|image=Al Richter.JPG

|caption=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1927|2|7}}

|birth_place=Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|2017|10|29|1927|2|7}}

|death_place=Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 23

|debutyear=1951

|debutteam=Boston Red Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=April 21

|finalyear=1953

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.091

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=0

|teams=

Boston Red Sox ({{baseball year|1951}}, {{baseball year|1953}})

}}

Allen Gordon Richter (February 7, 1927 – October 29, 2017) was an American professional baseball player.

Biography

A shortstop from Norfolk, Virginia, he was listed at {{convert|5|ft|11|in}} tall and {{convert|165|lb}}. He batted and threw right-handed. Richter was Jewish;{{cite journal |title=Big League Jews|journal=Jewish Sports Review |date=January–February 2020 |volume=12 |issue=137 |page=20}} he attended Matthew Fontaine Maury High School in Norfolk, the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/richtal01.shtml |title=Al Richter Stats |publisher=Baseball-Reference.com |date= |accessdate=2020-02-05}}

Richter played ten seasons (1945; 1947–55) in minor league baseball and appeared in six Major League games for the Boston Red Sox in the 1951 and 1953 seasons, hitting a single in 11 at bats for a .091 batting average while scoring one run. In four fielding appearances, he made clean plays on his 20 chances and posted a 1.000 fielding percentage. His lone hit came off Spec Shea at Yankee Stadium on September 30, 1951.{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1951/B09300NYA1951.htm|title=New York Yankees 3, Boston Red Sox 0|website=retrosheet.org|date=September 30, 1951|accessdate=November 1, 2017}} Richter's best minor league season came in 1951, when he batted .321 with 164 hits in 129 games played at the Triple-A level.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=richte001all|title=Al Richter Minor Leagues Statistics & History|publisher=sports-reference.com|website=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=November 1, 2017}} Richter died in October 2017, aged 90.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pilotonline/obituary.aspx?n=allen-gordon-richter&pid=187110573|title=Allen Gordon Richter 1927-2017|website=legacy.com|publisher=The Virginian Pilot|date=November 1, 2017|accessdate=November 1, 2017}}

References

External links

{{Baseballstats |mlb=121174 |espn= |br=r/richtal01 |fangraphs= |cube= |brm=richte001all }} and [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/R/Pricha101.htm Retrosheet]