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

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Biographical Information

George Pfister came to the Brooklyn Dodgers for one game on September 27, 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 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 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 Major League Baseball.

Through 2019, there has been one other player with the last name Pfister - Dan Pfister.

Year-by-Year Managerial Record

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

Related Sites

• George Pfister at the SABR Bio Project