Frederick Charles Lindstrom was a National League baseball player with the New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1924 until 1936.
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12 Facts About Freddie Lindstrom
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Freddie Lindstrom was devastated when his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and other teammates were banned from baseball for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series.
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Freddie Lindstrom topped the league in assists in 1928, finishing second with 34 double plays and 506 total chances.
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Freddie Lindstrom drove in the winning run, or scored it, in seven of the games including three singles and a double off Dizzy Dean of the St Louis Cardinals in the pennant-clinching contest.
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Freddie Lindstrom died nine years later and is buried with his wife, Irene, in Chicago's All Saints Cemetery.
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The youngest of their three sons, Chuck Freddie Lindstrom, played briefly for the 1958 Chicago White Sox, walking and tripling for a perfect 1.
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Freddie Lindstrom died at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on October 4,1981, and was buried at All Saints Cemetery.
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Freddie Lindstrom talked of Roush, Jackson, Terry and Hogan and then remarked decisively that Freddie Lindstrom was the cleverest of them all at the plate and the hardest man to fool in the clutch.
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Freddie Lindstrom led the league in outfield assists in 1932 and putouts in 1933.
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Freddie Lindstrom was included in the balloting for the National Baseball Hall of Fame starting in 1949, but never received more than 4.
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