Allen Gordon Richter is a retired American

United States

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 professional baseball

Professional baseball

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 player. A shortstop

Shortstop

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, he was listed at 5 in 11 in (1.8 m) tall and 165 pounds (74.8 kg). He batted and threw right-handed.

Richter played ten seasons (1945; 1947–1955) in minor league baseball

Minor league baseball

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 and appeared in six Major League

Major League Baseball

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 games for the Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

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 in the and seasons, hitting a single

Single (baseball)

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 in 11 at bats for a .091 batting average

Batting average

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 while scoring one run

Run (baseball)

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. In four fielding appearances, he made clean plays on his 20 chances and posted a 1.000 fielding percentage

Fielding percentage

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. His lone hit came off Spec Shea

Spec Shea

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 at Yankee Stadium on September 30, 1951.

Richter's finest minor league season came in 1951, when he batted .321 with 164 hits

Hit (baseball)

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 in 129 games played

Games played

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 at the Triple-A level.

External links

• Retrosheet
• http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=2972&pid=11911Nowlin, Bill, "Al Richter," SABR
  Society for American Baseball Research
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