George Pfister
George Edward Pfister
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 0", Weight 200 lb.
- High School Bound Brook High School
- Debut September 27, 1941
- Final Game September 27, 1941
- Born September 4, 1918 in Bound Brook, NJ USA
- Died August 14, 1997 in Somerset, NJ USA
Biographical Information[edit]
George Pfister came to the Brooklyn Dodgers for one game in 1941, and was never again in the majors. World War II intervened (he was in the Air Force), and George didn't come back to professional baseball until 1946, when he was 27 years old and by which time Roy Campanella was the up-and-coming catcher in the Dodgers' minor league system. That year, Pfister played for the Fort Worth Cats, where the young Duke Snider was a teammate. In 1948, George embarked on the first of several years as a player-manager in mostly lower-level minor leagues.
The National League originally ruled that Pfister was ineligible when he appeared in his sole major league game, because he had never signed a proper contract with Brooklyn and was therefore still being the property of the Montreal Royals. It demanded that his name be stricken from official records as a sort of damnatio memoriae. That was of course absurd, and he does appear in record books.
George was a Brooklyn Dodgers coach in 1952. Pfister was the New York Yankees farm director from 1965 to 1974 and worked for 23 years in the baseball operations department of MLB.
Through 2019, there has been one other player with the last name Pfister - Dan Pfister.
Year-by-Year Managerial Record[edit]
| Year | Team | League | Record | Finish | Organization | Playoffs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Pulaski Counts | Appalachian League | 85-40 | 1st | Brooklyn Dodgers | League Champs | |
| 1949 | Pulaski Counts | Appalachian League | 80-38 | 2nd | Brooklyn Dodgers | Lost in 1st round | |
| 1950 | Hazleton Dodgers | North Atlantic League | 71-58 | 4th | Brooklyn Dodgers | Lost in 1st round | |
| 1953 | Pueblo Dodgers | Western League | 78-77 | 3rd | Brooklyn Dodgers | Lost in 1st round | |
| 1954 | Thomasville (GA) Dodgers | Georgia-Florida League | -- | Brooklyn Dodgers | -- | replaced Boyd Bartley July 8 / replaced by John Angelone July 17 | |
| 1956 | Thomasville (GA) Dodgers | Georgia-Florida League | 6th | Brooklyn Dodgers | replaced Rudy Rufer June 2 |
We're Social...for Statheads
Every Sports Reference Social Media Account
Site Last Updated:
Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction?
Subscribe to our Free Email Newsletter
Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE
Your All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database
Do you have a sports website? Or write about sports? We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Find out more.