John Fitzpatrick (baseball)
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John Arthur Fitzpatrick (March 19, 1904 — November 19, 1990), nicknamed "Foghorn" and "Eagle Beak," was a Major League Baseball coach and minor league catcher and manager. He was born in LaSalle, Illinois.
He was a coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1953-1956 and the Milwaukee Braves from 1958-1959.
He managed minor league teams intermittently during the period of 1936-1963 in the Chicago White Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels farm systems. He was a longtime associate of Fred Haney, whom he served as a coach with the Hollywood Stars, Pirates and Braves.
He died at age 86.
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