Fraley Rogers

{{Short description|American baseball player (1850–1881)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Fraley Rogers

|image=Fraley Rogers.jpg

|position=Right fielder

|birth_date ={{birth date|1850|12|25}}

|birth_place=Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

|death_date ={{death date and age|1881|5|10|1850|12|25}}

|death_place=New York City, New York, U.S.

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Unknown

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 30

|debutyear=1872

|debutteam=Boston Red Stockings

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 16

|finalyear=1873

|finalteam=Boston Red Stockings

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.276

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=RBI

|stat3value=30

|teams=

;  National Association of Base Ball Players

: Resolute of Brooklyn (1865)

: Star of Brooklyn (1866–1870)

;  National Association of Professional BBP

: Boston Red Stockings ({{baseball year|1872}}–{{baseball year|1873}})

|highlights=

• Led the National Association in games played by a right fielder in {{baseball year|1872}}
• Played on the National Association championship team, 1872

}}

Fraley W. Rogers (December 25, 1850 – May 10, 1881) was an American baseball player at the dawn of the professional era. He played primarily for the amateur Star club of Brooklyn. In {{baseball year|1872}} he moved to right field for the Boston Red Stockings in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, the first professional league now in its second season.

Boston won the championship. It was Rogers' only full season with the pros, but he did play in two games for the Red Stockings in 1873.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rogerfr01.shtml|title=Fraley Rogers Stats|publisher=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=2017-03-01}}

Rogers committed suicide with a gun,{{cite web|url=http://thedeadballera.com/suicides.html|title=Suicides|publisher=thedeadballera.com|accessdate=2008-11-11}} at the age of 30 in New York City, and is interred at Pine Grove Cemetery in Westborough, Massachusetts.{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/R/Progef101.htm|title=Fraley Rogers' career statistics|publisher=retrosheet.org|accessdate=2008-11-11}}