Stanwood Fulton Baumgartner (December 14, 1894 – October 4, 1955) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who became a longtime sportswriter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born in Houston and raised in Chicago, Baumgartner played for the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League from 1914 to 1916 and from 1921 through early 1922.
[2] Baumgartner then signed with the Phillies and—with no prior professional baseball experience—made his major league debut on June 26, 1914,[3] throwing one-third of an inning in relief against the Brooklyn Robins.
[3] He pitched six games for the Phillies in 1922, none after May 30, and spent the remainder of that season and all of 1923 in minor league baseball.
He wrote for The Sporting News and The Philadelphia Inquirer until, suffering from late-stage colorectal cancer, he retired during the 1955 season.
[5] During World War I, and his hiatus from professional baseball, Baumgartner—although only 22 years old at the time—was also the head coach for the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football program for the 1917 season.