| George Fair | |
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| Second Baseman | |
| Born: January 13, 1856 Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Died: February 12, 1939 (aged 83) Roslindale, Massachusetts |
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| Batted: Unknown | Threw: Unknown |
| MLB debut | |
| July 29, 1876 for the New York Mutuals | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| July 29, 1876 for the New York Mutuals | |
| Career statistics | |
| Games played | 1 |
| Runs scored | 0 |
| Hits | 0 |
| Batting average | .000 |
| Teams | |
George T. Fair (January 13, 1856 - February 12, 1939) was a Major League Baseball second baseman, playing one game for the New York Mutuals in 1876. The twenty-year-old Fair failed to get a hit in four at-bats in his lone big-league contest, then faded into obscurity. Born in Boston, he died in Roslindale, Massachusetts in 1939 at the age of 83.
The first baseball encyclopedia, Hy Turkin and S. C. Thompson's Complete Encyclopedia of Baseball (first published in 1951), did not list Fair. Instead, his brief accomplishments were credited to Edward L. Thayer; later references rectified this, and Fair was given his rightful place in baseball history. (Whoever came up with Fair's pseudonym may have been thinking of Ernest Thayer, who wrote the famous baseball poem Casey at the Bat.)