• Card series: Pioneer Portraits II: 1875-1899
• City: Brooklyn
• Team: Grooms
• League: National League

David Luther Foutz (1856-1897) compiled the 2nd highest winning % of all time (.690) for the St. Louis Browns & Brooklyn Bridegrooms over a 13 year career. A fine batsman, he hit .357 for Brooklyn in ’87 & won 25 games on the mound. Foutz was so highly prized that Browns’ owner Chris Von der Ahe bought the Bay City, MI franchise to get him.

• Was sold to the Bridegrooms in 1888 for $13.5k, then led Brooklyn to pennants in ’89 & ‘90
• Ended his career as player-manager for the Bridegrooms from 1893-1896
• Forced to retire due to ill health, Foutz succumbed to asthma at the age of 40