{{short description|American baseball player (1882-1939)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{for|the English guitarist|Bert Weedon}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Bert Weeden |position=Pinch hitter |image=Bert_Weeden.png |image_size=125 |bats=Left |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1882|12|21}} |birth_place=Northwood, New Hampshire, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1939|1|7|1882|12|21}} |death_place=Northwood, New Hampshire, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=June 4 |debutyear=1911 |debutteam=Boston Rustlers |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=June 4 |finalyear=1911 |finalteam=Boston Rustlers |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Games played |stat1value=1 |stat2label=At bats |stat2value=1 |stat3label=Hits |stat3value=0 |teams= * Boston Rustlers ({{mlby|1911}}) }} '''Charles Albert Weeden''' (December 21, 1882 – January 7, 1939) was an American professional baseball player.
Weeden was a catcher during his long minor-league career, which spanned 1902 to 1923.<ref name=brm>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=weeden001cha |title=Bert Weeden Minor & Independent Leagues Statistics |website=Baseball Reference |accessdate=January 23, 2025}}</ref> He also had several jobs as a manager,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-weeden-once-hawk-manager-d/163770959/ |title=Weeden, Once Hawk Manager, Dies Suddenly |agency=AP |newspaper=Waterloo Courier |location=Waterloo, Iowa |page=7 |date=January 8, 1939 |accessdate=January 23, 2025 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> and he continued to manage as late as 1936 at the amateur level.<ref name=obit/>
Weeden played in one major-league game, with the 1911 Boston Rustlers as a pinch hitter.<ref name=retro/> His lone major-league at bat came on June 4, 1911, in a road game against the Cincinnati Reds—he failed to register a hit against reliever Barney Schreiber in a game that the Reds won, 26–3.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1911/B06040CIN1911.htm |title=Cincinnati Reds 26, Boston Rustlers 3 |date=June 4, 1911 |accessdate=January 23, 2025 |website=Retrosheet}}</ref>
Weeden was born in 1882 in Northwood, New Hampshire;<ref name=retro>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/W/Pweedb101.htm |title=Bert Weeden |website=Retrosheet |accessdate=January 23, 2025}}</ref> he died in his hometown in 1939 of a heart attack.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-item-old-lynn-ball-player-dies/163769062/ |title=Old Lynn Ball Player Dies at Northwood, N. H. |newspaper=The Daily Item |location=Lynn, Massachusetts |page=10 |date=January 9, 1939 |accessdate=January 23, 2025 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> His obituary noted that he served in the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.<ref name=obit/>
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==Further reading== * {{cite web |url=https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-4-1911-baseball-in-the-fast-lane-reds-race-past-boston-rustlers-26-3/ |title=June 4, 1911: Baseball in the fast lane: Reds race past Boston Rustlers, 26-3 |first=Bob |last=LeMoine |website=Society for American Baseball Research |accessdate=January 23, 2025}}
==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=w/weedebe01|brm=weeden001cha|retro=W/Pweedb101}}
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