| Al Richter | |
| Position: | Shortstop |
| Bats: | Right |
| Throws: | Right |
| Birth Date: | 7 February 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Death Place: | Virginia Beach, Virginia |
| Debutleague: | MLB |
| Debutdate: | September 23 |
| Debutyear: | 1951 |
| Debutteam: | Boston Red Sox |
| Finalleague: | MLB |
| Finaldate: | April 21 |
| Finalyear: | 1953 |
| Finalteam: | Boston Red Sox |
| Statleague: | MLB |
| Stat1label: | Batting average |
| Stat1value: | .091 |
| Stat2label: | Home runs |
| Stat2value: | 0 |
| Stat3label: | Runs batted in |
| Stat3value: | 0 |
| Teams: | |
Allen Gordon Richter (February 7, 1927 – October 29, 2017) was an American professional baseball player.
A shortstop from Norfolk, Virginia, he was listed at 5feet tall and . He batted and threw right-handed. Richter was Jewish;[1] he attended Matthew Fontaine Maury High School in Norfolk, the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.[2]
Richter played ten seasons (1945; 1947–55) in minor league baseball and appeared in six Major League games for the Boston Red Sox in the 1951 and 1953 seasons, hitting a single in 11 at bats for a .091 batting average while scoring one run. In four fielding appearances, he made clean plays on his 20 chances and posted a 1.000 fielding percentage. His lone hit came off Spec Shea at Yankee Stadium on September 30, 1951.[3] Richter's best minor league season came in 1951, when he batted .321 with 164 hits in 129 games played at the Triple-A level.[4] Richter died in October 2017, aged 90.[5]
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