Freddie Lindstrom

Frederick "Freddie" Lindstrom began his professional baseball career at the ripe age of 16. One of the finest athletes to come out of Chicago, he had tryouts with both the Cubs and the New York Giants. He was signed by the Giants organization, and played for their affiliate Toledo Mud Hens in 1922. Lindstrom hit .304 in 18 games with the minor league club, making a big impression for such a young player.

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Someone once wrote that his rise to fame was meteoric, and like a meteor his flame burned out quickly. Certainly his rise was rapid. At 16 he was playing in the highest classification of minor league baseball. Two years later he became the youngest player ever to appear in the World Series, a distinction he still holds as of 2011. He was known as the "boy wonder" of the major leagues. For several years his star shined brightly in the National League. When his stardom faded, the afterglow was strong enough to secure the election of Freddie Lindstrom to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, despite the objections of his detractors.

Career: 103 HR, .311 BA (94th), 779 RBI, 3B/OF, HOF in 1976, Giants/Pirates/... 1924-1936, b:R/t:R, 1x H Leader, born in Unite. 1905, died 1981

Fred Lindstrom, a third baseman and outfielder for nine seasons with the New York Giants and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, died Sunday at Mercy Hospital in Chicago after a long illness. He was 75 years old. He played 13 seasons with the Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers. The youngest man ever to play in a World Series, he batted .300 or better from 1926 through 1931, and had a .379 average in 1930. His career mark was .311.

Frederick Charles Lindy Lindstrom (November 21, 1905 – October 4, 1981) was a National League baseball player with the New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1924 until 1936. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. At the age of 23, Lindstrom hit .358 for the Giants and was named The Sporting News Major League All Star team's third baseman ahead of Pittsburgh's Harold "Pie" Traynor.[1] Two years later, he repeated the honor while scoring 127 runs and batting .379, second only to Rogers Hornsby among right-handed batters in National League history.[2]