Rusty Saunders

{{short description|American baseball player (1906-1967)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Rusty Saunders | position = Outfielder | image = | bats = Right | throws = Right | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|3|12}} | birth_place = Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|11|24|1906|3|12}} | death_place = Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. | debutleague = MLB | debutdate = September 24 | debutyear = {{Baseball year|1927}} | debutteam = Philadelphia Athletics | finalleague = MLB | finaldate = October 2 | finalyear = {{Baseball year|1927}} | finalteam = Philadelphia Athletics | statleague = MLB | stat1label = Batting average | stat1value = .133 | stat2label = Hits | stat2value = 2 | stat3label = Runs batted in | stat3value = 2 | teams = *Philadelphia Athletics ({{Baseball year|1927}}) }} {{this|the baseball player|the stuntman|Russell M. Saunders}} '''Russell Collier Saunders''' (March 12, 1906 – November 24, 1967) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played in {{baseball year|1927}} with the Philadelphia Athletics. He was born and died in Trenton, New Jersey. He batted and threw right-handed. Saunders began his professional baseball career with the Chambersburg Maroons of the Blue Ridge League in 1927. He had a .983 fielding percentage playing in 95 games as part of the Chambersburg team that won the Blue Ridge Championship that year. After the Blue Ridge League season ended, Saunders was called up to the baseball major leagues. Saunders had a .133 batting average in five games, two hits in 15 at-bats, in his brief time in the majors. He continued to play minor league baseball through the 1931 season.

Saunders, at {{convert|6|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}} and {{convert|205|lb|kg}},<ref name=ablplayoffs>[http://www.apbr.org/ablplayoffs.html ABL PLAYOFFS, 1926 and 1927]</ref> also played professional basketball.<ref>Bill James, ''The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract'', p. 127.</ref> He played in a number of professional leagues, including the American Basketball League and National Basketball League, among others.

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