Lonny Frey
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| Second baseman / Shortstop | |||
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Born: August 23, 1910 St. Louis, Missouri |
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Died: September 13, 2009 (aged 99) Coeur d'Alene, Idaho |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 29, 1933, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |||
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| September 28, 1948, for the New York Giants | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .269 | ||
| Home runs | 61 | ||
| Runs batted in | 549 | ||
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Linus Reinhard Frey [Junior] (August 23, 1910 – September 13, 2009) was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1933 through 1948 for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1933–1936), Chicago Cubs (1937, 1947), Cincinnati Reds (1938–1943, 1946), New York Yankees (1947–1948), and New York Giants (1948). He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Frey began his career as a switch hitter and continued to bat from both sides of the plate until the end of 1938. Starting in 1939, he batted exclusively from the left side of the plate. He started at shortstop with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1933 and switched to second base after leading the National League in errors in 1935 (44) and 1936 (51). Traded to the Chicago Cubs before the 1936 season he developed as a competent second baseman.
Frey enjoyed his best years with the Cincinnati Reds, helping them to reach two consecutive World Series in 1939 and 1940, after hitting .291 with 11 home runs and 95 runs (1939) and leading the National League with 22 stolen bases (1940) while scoring 102 runs. Five days before the 1940 World Series against Detroit, Frey injured his foot when he dropped the iron lid of the dugout water cooler on it. Eddie Joost replaced him at second base for the series.
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