# Danny Fife > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Danny_Fife > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Danny_Fife.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fife > Source revision: 1304411490 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American baseball player (1949–2024)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Danny Fife |position=[Pitcher](/source/Pitcher) |image= |bats = Right |throws = Right |birth_date = {{Birth date|1949|10|5}} |birth_place = [Harrisburg, Illinois](/source/Harrisburg%2C_Illinois), U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|5|30|1949|10|5}} |death_place = |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=August 18 |debutyear=1973 |debutteam=Minnesota Twins |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=April 24 |finalyear=1974 |finalteam=Minnesota Twins |statleague = MLB |stat1label=[Win–loss record](/source/Win_(baseball)) |stat1value=3–2 |stat2label=[Earned run average](/source/Earned_run_average) |stat2value=5.43 |stat3label=[Strikeout](/source/Strikeout)s |stat3value=21 |teams= *[Minnesota Twins](/source/Minnesota_Twins) ({{baseball year|1973}}–{{baseball year|1974}}) }} '''Danny Wayne Fife''' (October 5, 1949 – May 30, 2024) was a [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball) [pitcher](/source/pitcher) who played for the [Minnesota Twins](/source/Minnesota_Twins) in {{Baseball year|1973}} and {{baseball year|1974}}. A three-sport standout at [Clarkston High School](/source/Clarkston_High_School_(Michigan)) (MI), Fife played 3 years of varsity basketball and baseball at the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan). He served as basketball captain in his senior year. Fife was drafted in the 1971 [NBA](/source/NBA) draft by the [Milwaukee Bucks](/source/Milwaukee_Bucks) and also by the [Detroit Tigers](/source/Detroit_Tigers) in the major league baseball draft. Choosing baseball as his immediate career path, Fife signed with the Tigers and was traded to the [Minnesota Twins](/source/Minnesota_Twins) right before the 1973 season. A sore arm ended Fife's baseball career prematurely after the 1975 season. Fife returned to the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan) as an assistant basketball coach. In 1983, Fife went back to his high school alma mater as the varsity basketball coach, where he remained for the next 36 years. In those years, Fife crafted a remarkable record of 29 league championships, 30 district titles, 13 regional titles and 2 state championships. He retired in 2018 as the third winningest coach in Michigan high school basketball history with 701 victories. Fife was inducted to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on May 30, 2024, at the age of 74.{{cite news |last1=McCabe |first1=Mick |title=Dan Fife, the legendary Clarkston basketball coach, dies at age 74 |url=https://eu.freep.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/05/31/dan-fife-dies-clarkston-basketball-high-school-sports/73927515007/ |access-date=5 June 2024 |publisher=Detroit Free Press}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=f/fifeda01|brm=fife--001dan}} *[https://michigansportshof.org/inductee/dan-fife/ Michigan Sports Hall of Fame] *[https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2024/05/legendary-clarkston-basketball-coach-dan-fife-passes-away-at-74.html Legendary Clarkston basketball coach Dan Fife passes away at 74] {{DEFAULTSORT:Fife, Danny}} Category:1949 births Category:2024 deaths Category:Baseball players from Saline County, Illinois Category:Minnesota Twins players Category:People from Harrisburg, Illinois Category:20th-century American sportsmen Category:Milwaukee Bucks draft picks {{US-baseball-pitcher-1940s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Danny Fife](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fife) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Fife?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.