# Fraley Rogers

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{{Short description|American baseball player (1850–1881)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Fraley Rogers
|image=Fraley Rogers.jpg
|position=[Right fielder](/source/Right_fielder)
|birth_date ={{birth date|1850|12|25}}
|birth_place=[Brooklyn, New York](/source/Brooklyn%2C_New_York), U.S.
|death_date ={{death date and age|1881|5|10|1850|12|25}}
|death_place=[New York City](/source/New_York_City), New York, U.S.
|bats=Unknown
|throws=Unknown
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=April 30
|debutyear=1872
|debutteam=Boston Red Stockings
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=July 16
|finalyear=1873
|finalteam=Boston Red Stockings
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[Batting average](/source/Batting_average_(baseball))
|stat1value=.276
|stat2label=[Home run](/source/Home_run)s
|stat2value=1
|stat3label=[RBI](/source/Run_batted_in)
|stat3value=30
|teams=
;  National Association of Base Ball Players
: Resolute of Brooklyn (1865)
: Star of Brooklyn (1866–1870)
;  National Association of Professional BBP
: [Boston Red Stockings](/source/History_of_the_Atlanta_Braves) ({{baseball year|1872}}–{{baseball year|1873}})
|highlights=
* Led the [National Association](/source/National_Association_of_Professional_Base_Ball_Players) in [games played](/source/games_played) by a [right fielder](/source/right_fielder) in {{baseball year|1872}}
* Played on the National Association championship team, 1872
}}

'''Fraley W. Rogers''' (December 25, 1850 – May 10, 1881) was an American [baseball](/source/baseball) player at the dawn of the professional era. He played primarily for the amateur Star club of Brooklyn. In {{baseball year|1872}} he moved to [right field](/source/right_fielder) for the [Boston Red Stockings](/source/History_of_the_Atlanta_Braves) in the [National Association of Professional Base Ball Players](/source/National_Association_of_Professional_Base_Ball_Players), the first professional league now in its second season.

Boston won the championship. It was Rogers' only full season with the pros, but he did play in two games for the Red Stockings in 1873.<ref name="baseballreference">{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rogerfr01.shtml|title=Fraley Rogers Stats|publisher=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=2017-03-01}}</ref>

Rogers committed suicide with a gun,<ref name="suicide">{{cite web|url=http://thedeadballera.com/suicides.html|title=Suicides|publisher=thedeadballera.com|accessdate=2008-11-11}}</ref> at the age of 30 in [New York City](/source/New_York_City), and is interred at Pine Grove Cemetery in [Westborough, Massachusetts](/source/Westborough%2C_Massachusetts).<ref name="retrosheet">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/R/Progef101.htm|title=Fraley Rogers' career statistics|publisher=retrosheet.org|accessdate=2008-11-11}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Baseballstats|br=r/rogerfr01}}

{{1872 Boston Red Stockings}}

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Category:Major League Baseball right fielders
Category:Brooklyn Stars players
Category:Boston Red Stockings players
Category:Baseball players from Brooklyn
Category:Suicides by firearm in New York City
Category:19th-century baseball players
Category:19th-century American sportsmen
Category:1850 births
Category:1881 deaths
Category:1881 suicides

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