Lindsay Deal

Fred Lindsay Deal

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 175 lb.
• Debut September 13, 1939
• Final Game October 1, 1939
• Born September 3, 1911 in Lenoir, NC USA
• Died April 18, 1979 in Little Rock, AR USA

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Biographical Information

North Carolina native Lindsay Deal spent fourteen seasons in professional baseball from 1935 to 1949. He spent four of those years in the minor leagues before getting his only chance at the big leagues.

Lindsay was with the Montreal Royals of the International League, hitting at a .316 clip with seven home runs in 139 games, and on September 13, 1939 he got his call to the major leagues from the Brooklyn Dodgers. He finished out the season with the Ebbets Field team, appearing in four games with seven at-bats with no hits and his big league career ended here.

The outfielder returned to the minor leagues for the rest of his career, all in the the high minors, class A or better, with the exception of his final season in 1948, when he spent time with both the class C Greenville Bucks and the class B Meridian Peps. He was the player-manager for the Greenville team in 1948 until being replaced July 11.

During his 14 year minor league run Deal had ten seasons, hitting .305 or better. In all probabilities 1944 was his top year, when he hit .365 and 11 home runs in 135 games for the Atlanta Crackers and led the Southern Association in hits with 190 and RBI with 124. After this 1944 season Deal was drafted by the Boston Red Sox from Atlanta in the 1944 Rule V Draft. Lindsay finished out his pro career at the age of 36 in 1948 with a minor league .312 batting average and right at 72 home runs in 1,564 games. Deal scouted for the Baltimore Orioles from 1955-1959.

After baseball, he worked for the Pulaski County sheriff's office and was an Arkansas state trooper before working as a deputy United States Marshal for 25 years, retiring in 1976. Fred Lindsay Deal died on April 17, 1979 in Little Rock, AR, at the age of 67.

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