Fritz Mollwitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German baseball player
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Place of Birth: Coburg, Germany
About Fritz Mollwitz
- Fritz Mollwitz (Frederick August Mollwitz) was born in Coburg, Stadtkreis Coburg, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany on June 16, 1890.
- He was a Major League Baseball first baseman.
- Mollwitz was drafted in 1913 by the Chicago Cubs from the minor leagues, where he had been playing in the Wisconsin-Illinois League.
- He would play with the Cubs beginning that season and into the next season until he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for Claud Derrick.
- 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 of the American Association from the Cubs.
- Later that year, he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates along with a player to be named later for players to be named later.
- Eventually, Roy Sanders was sent to Pittsburgh and Alex McCarthy, Ray Miller and Ike McAuley were sent to Kansas City to complete the trade.
- In 1919, the St.
- Louis Cardinals purchased Mollwitz from the Pirates. Fritz died on October 3, 1967.
- He is buried in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
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