# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richie-ashburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:27:50.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richie-ashburn"
name: "Richie Ashburn"
slug: "richie-ashburn"
description: "Don Richard Ashburn, also known by the nicknames \"Putt-Putt\", \"the Tilden Flash\", and \"Whitey\", was an American professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1948 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, where he was a four-time All-Star player and member of the 1950 National League pennant winning team known as the Whiz Kids."
tagline: "American baseball player (1927–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richie_Ashburn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1927-03-19"
deathDate: "1997-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             3.129032258064516
  historical:           10.150624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "瑞奇·艾許伯恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "ريكى اشبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Ashburn"
    title: "Richie Ashburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Ashburn"
    title: "Richie Ashburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Ashburn"
    title: "Richie Ashburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Ashburn"
    title: "Richie Ashburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Ashburn"
    title: "Richie Ashburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "リッチー・アシュバーン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%98_%EC%95%A0%EC%8B%9C%EB%B2%88"
    title: "리치 애시번"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Ashburn"
    title: "Richie Ashburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%88%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8"
    title: "Эшберн, Ричи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1489089"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump