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George T. Fair was a Major League Baseball second baseman who played one game for the New York Mutuals in 1876. The twenty-year-old Fair failed to get a hit in four at-bats in his lone big-league contest on July 29,then was dropped by the club. Subsequently,he played for the Rhode Islands of the New England League,making his last professional baseball appearance in 1877. Born in Boston,Fair died in Roslindale,Massachusetts in 1939 at the age of 83. At the time of his death,Fair was the last living member of the Mutuals National League franchise,which was expelled from the NL after the 1876 season.
Dale Scott Thayer is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays,New York Mets,and San Diego Padres.
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Claude Allen Greene IV,is the former director of athletics for Auburn University from 2018 to 2022. He previously served as athletic director for the University at Buffalo,and as assistant athletic director for the University of Mississippi. Greene attended college at the University of Notre Dame,and was a two-year starter on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team. He was a ninth-round draft pick of the New York Yankees in the 1998 Major League Baseball draft,and went on to a four-year career in the minor leagues for the Yankees,playing for the Oneonta Yankees,Greensboro Bats,Tampa Yankees,and Elmira Pioneers. He grew up in Bellevue,Washington and attended O'Dea High School in Seattle,playing baseball and basketball,graduating 1995.
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