Dave Fultz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Outfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born: Staunton, Virginia, U.S. | May 29, 1875|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died: October 29, 1959 DeLand, Florida, U.S. | (aged 84)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 1, 1898, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 30, 1905, for the New York Highlanders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting average | .271 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home runs | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 223 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Lewis Fultz (May 29, 1875 – October 29, 1959) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He played Major League Baseball as a center fielder in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies (1898–1899) and Baltimore Orioles (1899), and for the Philadelphia Athletics (1901–1902) and New York Highlanders (1903–1905) of the American League. He batted and threw right-handed. In a seven-season career, Fultz posted a .271 batting average with 223 RBI and three home runs in 644 games played. Fultz played college football and college baseball at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1898. He served as the head football coach at the University of Missouri (1898–1899), Lafayette College (1902), Brown (1903), and New York University (1904), compiling a career college football coaching record of 26–19–2. Fultz was also the head baseball coach at the United States Naval Academy in 1907 and at Columbia University from 1910 to 1911.