Frederick Stanley Boardman (February 18, 1851 – April 12, 1941) was an American

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 ...

player. Boardman was born in 1851 in

St. Joseph, Missouri St. Joseph is a city in and county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. A small portion of the city extends north into Andrew County, Missouri, Andrew County. Located on the Missouri River, it is the princ ...

. According to baseball historian

David Nemec David Nemec (born December 10, 1938) is an American baseball historian and novelist. Early life and education Nemec was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent most of his adolescence in Bay Village, Ohio. During his senior year at Bay High School, ...

, he was an "auxiliary player" in Chicago for many years. He appeared in one game in

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

as a

right fielder A right fielder, abbreviated RF, is the outfielder in baseball or softball who plays defense in right field. Right field is the area of the outfield to the right of a person standing at home plate and facing towards the pitcher's mound. In the ...

for the

Baltimore Canaries The Baltimore Canaries were a professional baseball club in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, National Association from 1872 to 1874. History The team was usually listed as Lord Baltimore in the box scores of the day, and ...

in the National Association during the 1874 baseball season. His lone appearance with the Canaries came about when the team visited Chicago and was in need of an outfielder. The Chicago White Stockings won the game by a 4–0 score. During the 1875 season, he worked as an umpire in the National Association. He died in 1941 in

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, at age 90. At the time of his death he had been the last living player from the 1874 season.

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