# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wally-snell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:52.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wally-snell"
name: "Wally Snell"
slug: "wally-snell"
description: "Walter Henry \"Doc\" Snell was an American baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator, and mycologist. He played briefly as a catcher in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox during the 1913 season. Following his playing career, he became a successful mycologist who worked primarily at Brown University. Snell also coached the baseball team at Brown from 1922 to 1927 and served as the school's athletic director from 1943 to 1946."
tagline: "American baseball player and coach, college athletic administrator, mycologist (1889-1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Wally_Snell_Brown.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1889-05-19"
deathDate: "1980-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.1
  momentum:             1
  historical:           6.335709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Воллі Снелл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "والى سنيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Snell"
    title: "Wally Snell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Henry_Snell"
    title: "Walter Henry Snell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Henry_Snell"
    title: "Walter Henry Snell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Снелл, Уолтер Генри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Henry_Snell"
    title: "Walter Henry Snell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4425579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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