1901 - 1973

Fred Heimach was born in Camden, NJ, on January 27, 1901, and raised in the Cramer Hill section, where his parents had an oyster house at 27th St. and Hayes Ave.  "Lefty" was well-known in the neighborhood as a skilled baseball player and went on to pitch for the Philadelphia Athletics (1920-26), the Boston Red Sox (1926), the New York Yankees (1928-29), and the Brooklyn Dodgers (1930-33).  Fred also made a name for himself with a .385 average as a pinch hitter and errorless fielding from 1926 until his career ended in 1933 with a broken ankle.  He died in Fort Myers, FL, on June 1, 1973.  In 1990 he was elected to the South Jersey Baseball Hall of Fame.