High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Ten Eyck "Chick" Lathers (October 22, 1888 - July 26, 1971) was an American baseball player. With a .383 batting average, he was the third baseman and the leading hitter on the 1909 Michigan Wolverines baseball team that finished with a record of 18-3-1. He later played two years of Major League Baseball as an inifelder for the Detroit Tigers. After retiring from baseball in 1913, Lathers worked for the Ford Motor Company for several years, served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and operated a dairy farm in northern Michigan from 1925-1962. He was also active in local government in northern Michigan.