Fred Beck
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Frederick Thomas Beck (November 17, 1886 – March 12, 1962) was an American baseball player in the major leagues from 1909 to 1911 with the
Biography
Born and raised in
Beck made his major-league debut with the Boston Doves in 1909. In 1910, he tied for the major league lead in home runs with 10.[3] He split 1911 between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies and spent 1912 and 1913 with the Buffalo Bisons of the International League.[4]
In late 1913, Beck was elected to the board of directors of a players union known as the Baseball Players' Fraternity. Beck was elected in the first year that International League players were allowed representation on the board.[5] Before the season started, he signed on to the Federal League's Chicago Whales.[4] As Beck had just hit .240 for Buffalo in 1913, Whales manager Joe Tinker predicted a difficult battle for first base between Beck and Bill Jackson,[6] but Beck was the regular first baseman, playing 157 games for the Whales in 1914 and 110 games in 1915. He returned to the minor leagues for 1916 and 1917.[4]
Beck was called into military service during
Late in his life, Beck was a clerk at the Taylor House Hotel in his native Havana. He died of a
See also
References
- ^ Spink, Alfred Henry (1910). The National Game: A History of Baseball, America's Leading Out-door Sport, from the Time it was First Played Up to the Present Day, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches. National Game Publishing Company. p. 260.
- ^ "Seals buy Fred Beck". Los Angeles Times. July 21, 1908. p. 6.
- ^ "Fred Beck, 1910 homer hitter, dies". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 13, 1962. p. 16.
- ^ a b c d "Fred Beck Minor Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
- ^ "Fred Jacklitsch on directorate". Democrat and Chronicle. October 18, 1913. p. 21.
- Buffalo Evening News.
- ^ "Sport shrapnel". Chicago Tribune. April 14, 1918.
- ^ "Fred Beck dies". Decatur Daily Review. March 14, 1962. p. 13.
- ISBN 9781476609300.
External links
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Fred Beck at Find a Grave