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Fred YMy cousin Moritz "Mort" Flohr was a pitcher for Duke University who was signed right off campus in 1934 by Connie Mack and appeared in 14 games for the 1934 Philadelphia A's.
I visited him in the late '80s--saw a scrapbook his mother has kept from his college days & when he appeared w/ the A's. Anything else he may have had from career days was lost in a flood--glove, some bats, pictures--just about everything except a picture of him in his A's wool jacket on the mantle and his mother's scrapbook.
He signed a couple of index cards for me and I dare say not many have an auto of this short-time major Leaguer!
He went back for Spring Training in 1935, but in the meantime he had hurt/blown his arm out, got a bit too much into alcohol and never made the 1935 team.
He died in 1994 in a nursing home in WNY State.
To my knowledge he never appeared on any kind of BB card--not in Conlan Collection nor in Larry Fritch's One Year Wonders.
