John Falk "Bob" Poser (March 16, 1910 – May 21, 2002) was an American professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

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. He played for the

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and

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. Although Poser was listed as a pitcher, he was a good hitting outfielder in the minor leagues, and was used more as a

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than as a pitcher by the White Sox."Bob Poser Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-02.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Poser, Bob 1910 births 2002 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago White Sox players St. Louis Browns players 20th-century American sportsmen Baseball players from Wisconsin People from Columbus, Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers baseball players Des Moines Demons players Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players American expatriate baseball players in Canada American physicians Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball players University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health alumni