Pete Suder
Infielder
Born: (1916-04-16)April 16, 1916 Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died: November 14, 2006(2006-11-14) (aged 90) Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 15, 1941, for the Philadelphia Athletics
Last MLB appearance
May 30, 1955, for the Kansas City Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average	.249
Home runs	49
Runs batted in	541
Teams
Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics (1941–1943, 1946–1955)

Peter Suder (April 16, 1916 – November 14, 2006), nicknamed "Pecky", was an American professional baseball player, a utility infielder for the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics (1941–43, 1946–55).

He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg).

Biography

Born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania on April 16, 1916, Suder's twenty-year career in baseball began in 1935. He led the American League in grounding into double plays (23) in 1941 before his career was interrupted in 1944 and 1945 by his World War II service in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations.^[1]

After completing his military service, Suder returned home, resumed his baseball career, and became the Athletics' all-time leader in grounding into double plays (158). In the field, Suder was a member of the 1949 Philadelphia Athletics team that set a Major League team record of 217 double plays, a record which still stood as of 2010.^[2][3] He participated in 94 double plays that year, 85 as a second baseman (where he platooned with future Baseball Hall of Famer Nellie Fox) and nine at third base.^[4]

In 13 seasons, he played in 1,421 games, had 5,085 at bats, 469 runs, 1,268 hits, 210 doubles, 44 triples, 49 home runs, 541 runs batted in, 19 stolen bases, 288 bases on balls, a .249 batting average, .290 on-base percentage, .337 slugging percentage, 1,713 total bases and 92 sacrifice hits.

Death

Suder died in Aliquippa on November 14, 2006. He was ninety years old.^[5]