Fred Price

Dr. Frederick A. Price, Jr.


Born:
August 12, 1924
Trenton, NJ

Died:
September 29, 2012
Ewing, NJ


Career
1941-42 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School)
1945-46 Fleet City - California (Military)
1946-47 Villanova University (College)
1947-48 Villanova University (College)
1948-49 Trenton Tigers (ABL)
1949-50 Trenton Tigers (ABL)
1953-54 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1954-55 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1955-56 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1956-57 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1957-58 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1958-59 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1959-60 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1960-61 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1961-62 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1962-63 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1963-64 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1964-65 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1965-66 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1966-67 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
1967-68 Catholic High School - Trenton (High School) Head coach
Rider College (College) Assistant coach

Price graduated from Trenton Catholic and served in the U.S. Navy during World War 2. He enrolled at Villanova where he played baseball and basketball. He signed with the Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Club and spent the 1948 season in their farm system, but was let go after the season. He played pro basket ball with the Trenton Tigers while he finished his education at Villanova, graduating in 1950. He would get his Masters Degree from Rutgers in 1955, and his doctorate from Southern Mississippi in 1970. He had been teaching at Catholic, but in 1972 became a professor at Rider University and a couple years after that, a director in the New Jersey Department of Education.

He married Vivian Stroman and they had two sons.

Minor League Baseball Stats
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=price-002fre

Source:
Obituary, Trenton Times, October 10, 2012

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