Biff Schaller

Walter "Biff" Schaller (September 23, 1889 – October 9, 1939) was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball for 11 seasons from 1910 to 1920, including two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1911 and the Chicago White Sox in 1913 and seven seasons in the Pacific Coast League from 1913 to 1917 and 1919 to 1920.

Early years Schaller was born in 1889 in Chicago.

He also played two seasons in the American Association for the Kansas City Blues (1911-1912) and seven seasons in the Pacific Coast League for the San Francisco Seals (1913–17, 1919), Seattle Rainiers (1919), and Portland Beavers (1919-1920). Between 1914 and 1917, he appeared in 807 games for the Seals.

Schaller was known for his misuse of the English language. He once blamed a batting slump by noting that "the high multitude of Salt Lake City bothers me."

Family and later years Schaller lived in Emeryville, California, for the last 15 years of his life. He and his wife, Lucille, had a daughter, Lorraine. In October 1939, Schaller died of a heart attack after eating dinner at his home in Emeryville. He was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.