Lawrence Joseph Fritz [Zeb] was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in one game during the 1975 season. Listed at 6 ft 2 in, 225 lb., Fritz batted and threw left-handed. A native of East Chicago, Indiana, he attended Arizona State University. Fritz was drafted in 1969 by the New York Mets, playing in their minor league system for the Marion Mets, Visalia Mets, Memphis Blues and Tidewater Tides, before joining the Phillies organization in 1974. Fritz began 1974 with Double-A Reading Phillies, for whom he hit eight home runs with 19 runs batted in in 15 games. During the midseason, he gained a promotion to Triple-A Toledo Mudhens, where he batted three homers and drove in seven runs in 16 games. In 1975, Fritz was purchased by Philadelphia from Toledo after Phillies shortstop Larry Bowa broke his hand in a game against the San Francisco Giants on May 27. Fritz made his lone Major League appearance on May 30, 1975 at Veterans Stadium against the Houston Astros. With the Phillies trailing 5 to 0, and with two-outs and Mike Anderson on first in the bottom of the ninth-inning, Fritz pinch-hit for Larry Christenson. 

February 14th, 1949 in East Chicago (Age 75)