Fred Crane
From BR Bullpen
Frederic William Hotchkiss Crane
- Bats Unknown, Throws Unknown
- Height 5' 9", Weight 135 lb.
- Debut May 26, 1873
- Born November 4, 1840 in Old Saybrook, CT USA
- Died April 27, 1925 in Brooklyn, NY USA
[edit] Biographical Information
Fred Crane got most of his at-bats for the 1875 Brooklyn Atlantics, who won only 2 games all season. Crane hit .210 on a team that hit .197. At age 34, Crane was one of the oldest players on the team.
The SABR biographies of Asa Brainard and Dickey Pearce state that Crane, along with Frank Norton and Dickey Pearce, jumped from the amateur Atlantics (most likely in 1866) to the Excelsiors, but Pearce and Crane came back to the Atlantics in August.
The book Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan indicates that Fred was "the celebrated second base of the Atlantics" in 1866, and that he might move to Detroit. However, in 1869 he was still playing for the amateur Atlantics.
