Fritz Mollwitz was a Major League Baseball

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 first baseman

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. Mollwitz was drafted in 1913 by the Chicago Cubs

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 from the minor leagues, where he had been playing in the Wisconsin-Illinois League

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. He would play with the Cubs beginning that season and into the next season until he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds

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 for Claud Derrick

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. In 1916, he would return to Chicago when the Cubs purchased him from the Reds. The following year, Mollwitz returned to the minor leagues when he was purchased by the Kansas City Blues

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 of the American Association

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 from the Cubs. Later that year, he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates

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 along with a player to be named later for players to be named later. Eventually, Roy Sanders

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 was sent to Pittsburgh and Alex McCarthy

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Alexander George McCarthy) was a professional baseball infielder. He played all or part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball from 1910 to 1917. He played over 100 games each as a second baseman, shortstop and third baseman....

, Ray Miller

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 and Ike McAuley

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 were sent to Kansas City to complete the trade. In 1919, the St. Louis Cardinals

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 purchased Mollwitz from the Pirates.

He is buried in Brookfield, Wisconsin

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