Pete Suder

Peter Suder (April 16, 1916 – November 14, 2006), nicknamed "Pecky", was an American professional baseball player, a utility infielder for the Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics (1941–43 and 1946–55). Born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, Suder threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg).

Pete Suder
Infielder
Born: (1916-04-16)April 16, 1916
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
Died: November 14, 2006(2006-11-14) (aged 90)
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 15, 1941, for the Philadelphia Athletics
Last MLB appearance
May 30, 1955, for the Kansas City Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average.249
Home runs49
Runs batted in541
Teams

Suder's 20-year career began in 1935 and was interrupted during World War II by 1944–45 service in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations.[1]

Suder led the American League in grounding into double plays (23) in 1941. He is also the Athletics' all-time leader in grounding into double plays (158). Suder was a member of the 1949 Philadelphia Athletics team that set a Major League team record of 217 double plays, a record which still stood as of 2010.[2][3]

In 13 seasons he played in 1,421 games, had 5,085 at bats, 469 runs, 1,268 hits, 210 doubles, 44 triples, 49 home runs, 541 runs batted in, 19 stolen bases, 288 bases on balls, a .249 batting average, .290 on-base percentage, .337 slugging percentage, 1,713 total bases and 92 sacrifice hits.

He died, aged 90, in Aliquippa.

See also

References
  1. Baseball in Wartime.com
  2. Macht, Norman (December 1989). Old A's Were Masters of the Double Play. Baseball Digest. Books.Google.com. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  3. "A Record with Legs: Most Double Plays Turned in a Season". philadelphiaathletics.org. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2016.


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