American football and baseball player (1910–1998)
Fred Sington Position Tackle Class Graduate Born: (1910-02-24 ) February 24, 1910Birmingham, Alabama , U.S.Died: August 20, 1998(1998-08-20) (aged 88) Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Weight 215 lb (98 kg) College
Bowl games
High school Phillips
College Football Hall of Fame (1955)
Baseball player
Baseball career Outfielder Born: (1910-02-24 ) February 24, 1910Birmingham, Alabama Died: August 20, 1998(1998-08-20) (aged 88)Birmingham, Alabama Batted: Right
Threw: Right
September 23, 1934, for the Washington Senators June 16, 1939, for the Brooklyn Dodgers Batting average .271 Home runs 7 Runs batted in 85 Stats at Baseball Reference
Frederic William Sington (February 24, 1910 – August 20, 1998) was an American football and baseball player. Sington was also an accomplished saxophonist.[ 1] Sington was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and was Jewish.[ 2]
He attended Phillips High School .[ 3] [ 4]
Sington was a prominent two-time All America tackle for Wallace Wade 's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams.[ 4] While in college he was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, Psi chapter at the University of Alabama . He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. Sington was chosen for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1920–1969 era.[ 5]
1930
In 1930 , a year in which Alabama won the national championship and Sington was a unanimous All-American ,[ 6] Rudy Vallée wrote a song about Sington, entitled "Football Freddie", that would go on to become a nationwide hit.[ 7]
Baseball
In 1932 he led the Middle Atlantic League with a batting average of .368 and a slugging percentage of .720, and in triples with 12 and home runs with 29.[ 8] In 1936 he was third in the Southern Association with a batting average of .384 and a slugging percentage of .589, as he led the league with 22 triples.[ 9]
He would also play professional baseball as an outfielder with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Washington Senators , batting .271/.382/.401 with 7 home runs and 85 RBI in 181 games.[ 10]
Death and burial
He is buried in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery .
References
^ "Did You Know That" . Freeport Journal-Standard . December 5, 1929. p. 16. Retrieved March 13, 2015 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Big League Jews". Jewish Sports Review . 12 (137): 21. January–February 2020.
^ Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz (2001). The Big Book of Jewish Baseball . SP Books. ISBN 9781561719730 . Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
^ a b Ron Ingram, Rubin E. Grant (2006). Tales from Alabama Prep Football . Sports Publishing LLC. ISBN 9781596700598 . Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
^ "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats of Past, Present". Gadsden Times . July 27, 1969.
^ Alan Gould (December 6, 1930). "MIDDLE WEST HOLDS EDGE IN SELECTION OF 1930 ALL-AMERICAN GRID TEAMS: POLL BY ASSOCIATED PRESS SELECTS STARS FOR MYTHICAL ELEVEN". Evening Independent .
^ Groom, 2000, p. 57.
^ "1932 Middle Atlantic League Batting Leaders" . Baseball-Reference.com. January 1, 1970. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
^ "1936 Southern Association Batting Leaders" . Baseball-Reference.com. January 1, 1970. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
^ "Fred Sington Stats" . Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
Sources
Groom, Winston. The Crimson Tide – An Illustrated History . Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8173-1051-7 .
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