George Fair

Who was George Fair?

George T. Fair 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 on July 29, then was dropped by the club. Later that season, he turned up with Rhode Islands club of the New England League, then faded into obscurity. Born in Boston, Fair 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, 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.