Art Fletcher, a player with the New York Giants baseball team, appeared in the Thanhouser-Princess film, The Final Game, which depicted highlights from the last game of the 1913 World Series, played in New York City on October 11, 1913.
Art Fletcher
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 121 words.
Arthur (“Art”) Fletcher was born on January 5, 1885 in Collinsville, Illinois. He spent 13 years as a player, and additional years as a manager, in major league baseball. He participated in four World Series contests, 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1917. Standing just over 510” tall, he weighed 170 pounds. In the final game of the 1913 World Series, filmed by Thanhouser, he played shortstop and was at bat three times. Fletcher died on February 6, 1950 in Los Angeles, California.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “FLETCHER, Art.” thanhouser.org/research/people/art-fletcher/