Frederick Raymond Kommers (March 31, 1886 – June 14, 1943) nicknamed "Bugs", was a 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 ...

outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to catch ...

. Kommers played two seasons in the

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 ...

. He debuted in June for the

Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central ...

and played 40 games for them over the rest of the season. In , he split the season between two teams in the new

Federal League The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the e ...

, starting the year with the St. Louis Terriers and ending it with the

Baltimore Terrapins The Baltimore Terrapins were one of the most successful teams in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from to , but their brief existence led to litigation that led to an important legal precedent in baseball. The team played ...

Sources

Major League Baseball outfielders Pittsburgh Pirates players St. Louis Terriers players Baltimore Terrapins players 20th-century American sportsmen Havana Perfectos players Beardstown Infants players Galesburg Pavers players Springfield Senators players Decatur Nomads players Columbus Senators players Springfield Watchmakers players Dubuque Dubs players Jackson/Ionia Mayors players Muskegon Muskies players 1886 births 1943 deaths Baseball players from Chicago {{US-baseball-outfielder-1880s-stub