Hack Eibel
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Henry Hack Eibel (December 6, 1893 – October 16, 1945) was a utility player in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Naps (1912) and Boston Red Sox (1920). Listed at Script error: No such module "convert".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and 220 lb., Eibel batted and threw left-handed. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to emigrant parents of German extraction.[1] Eibel first played in the majors at the age of 18.
During his brief major league career, Eibel did almost everything a player was asked to do, appearing in 30 games, as a relief pitcher (3 games), left fielder (3), right fielder (3), first baseman (1), and pinch-hitter or pinch-runner (20).
In a two-season career, Eibel was a .174 hitter (8-for-43) with four runs and six RBI, including two doubles and one stolen base. He did not hit a home run. In three relief appearances, he posted a 3.48 ERA with five strikeouts and three walks in 10⅓ innings and did not have a decision.
Eibel shot himself to death in Macon, Georgia at age 51.[2] Macon was also the town of Eibel's final professional ball club team. Eibel retired from baseball in 1924.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Society for American Baseball Research"Henry Eibel was born to foreign-born parents. His father, Henry, had come from Germany to America in 1870 and worked as a blacksmith in 1900 and a baker in 1910. His mother, Elizabeth, had been born in England, but to two German parents; she came to America in 1864. "
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Sources
Template:US-baseball-outfielder-1890s-stub
Template:US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub
- Pages with script errors
- Boston Red Sox players
- Cleveland Naps players
- Major League Baseball outfielders
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- 1893 births
- 1945 suicides
- 1945 deaths
- Minor league baseball managers
- Dayton Veterans players
- Saginaw Ducks players
- Atlanta Crackers players
- Memphis Chickasaws players
- Richmond Climbers players
- Richmond Virginians (minor league) players
- Shreveport Gassers players
- Galveston Sand Crabs players
- Macon Peaches players
- Baseball players from Brooklyn
- American people of German descent
- Suicides by firearm in Georgia (U.S. state)
- 20th-century American sportsmen