Frederick Jacob Gaiser (August 31, 1885 – October 9, 1918) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...

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. He played for the

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in 1908."Fred Gaiser Statistics and History"
baseball-reference.com. Retrieved August 6, 2011. He died at the age of 33 from

Spanish flu The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest docum ...

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1885 births 1918 deaths Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in New Jersey Major League Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball players from Germany St. Louis Cardinals players Holyoke Papermakers players Sportspeople from Stuttgart German emigrants to the United States {{baseball-pitcher-stub