Fred Siefke

Frederick Edwin Siefke (March 27, 1870 - April 18, 1893) was a 19th century Major League Baseball player from New York City.cite web| title = Fred Siefke's career statistics | work = baseball-reference.com | url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/siefkfr01.shtml | accessdate = 2007-08-17 ]

Career

Fred's only season consisted of 16 games at third base for the 1890 Brooklyn Gladiators during their one and only season in the American Association. In 58 at bats, he collected 8 hits for a .138 batting average that included 2 doubles cite web| title = Brooklyn Gladiators History | work = baseball-reference.com | url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRG/ | accessdate = 2007-08-17 ]

Post-career

Fred died at the age of 23 of Bright's Diseasecite web| title = Too Young To Die | work = thedeadballera.com | url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html | accessdate = 2007-08-17 ] in New York City, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.cite web| title = Career statistics | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/S/Psieff101.htm | accessdate = 2007-08-17 ]

References