Did you know? Nicknamed "Fat-Freddie" back in the days when body-shaming was socially accepted, if not tolerated ... led the NL in winning percentage in 1930 (.731) and again 10 years later in 1940 (.889).
Post-game: Managed in the big leagues, served as a general manager for a professional football team, and thereafter returned to coach in the big leagues and manage in the minor leagues during a span of 19 years, retiring in 1966 ... appeared in a 1976 episode of The Way It Was, a weekly PBS sports nostalgia television show hosted by Curt Gowdy ... died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at age 78 on November 18, 1979.
Sources: Baseball Reference; SABR Bio; Arcadia Tribune, 3/5/1967; Boston Globe, 12/9/1979; Los Angeles Times, 1/25/1976, 3/10/1976, 12/7/1979.
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