{{Short description|American baseball player (1875–1941)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Ed Hahn |position=Outfielder |image=Ed Hahn 1908.jpeg |bats=Left |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1875|8|27}} |birth_place=Nevada, Ohio, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1941|11|29|1875|8|27}} |death_place=Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=August 29 |debutyear=1905 |debutteam=New York Highlanders |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=June 5 |finalyear=1910 |finalteam=Chicago White Sox |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.237 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value=1 |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat3value=122 |teams= * New York Highlanders ({{baseball year|1905}}–{{baseball year|1906}}) * Chicago White Sox ({{baseball year|1906}}–{{baseball year|1910}}) |awards= *World Series champion ({{wsy|1906}}) }}
'''William Edgar Hahn''' (August 27, 1875 – November 29, 1941) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1905 to 1910. He played for the Chicago White Sox and New York Highlanders.
==Baseball career== [[File:Ed Hahn, Chicago White Sox, baseball card portrait LCCN2008676448.jpg|thumb|150px|left|A 1909 American Tobacco Company baseball card of Ed Hahn.]] Hahn, who was born in Nevada, Ohio, started his professional baseball career at the age of 27 in the Cotton States League. In August 1905, he was batting .305 for the New Orleans Pelicans<ref name="minors">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=hahn--003wil "Ed Hahn Minor League Statistics & History"]. ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-11-06.</ref> and was purchased by the American League's Highlanders. He got off to a slow start in 1906 and was sold to the White Sox.<ref name="Weisberger">Weisberger, Bernard A. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OaKML4RcI6oC When Chicago Ruled Baseball: The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906]'' (HarperCollins, 2007), p. 112.</ref> He became the team's starting right fielder. Hahn batted just .227 for the season but ranked third in the league in walks (72) and hits by pitches (11).<ref name="reference">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hahned01.shtml "Ed Hahn Statistics and History"]. ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-11-06.</ref> His style of play fit right in with the White Sox, who were known as "the Hitless Wonders."<ref name="baseballlibrary">[https://baseballbiography.com/ed-hahn-1875 "Ed Hahn Biography"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823150100/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Ed_Hahn_1875 |date=2012-08-23 }}. ''baseballlibrary.com''. Retrieved 2010-11-06.</ref>
The White Sox won the pennant and faced the heavily favored Chicago Cubs in the 1906 World Series. Hahn, the team's leadoff hitter,<ref name="baseballlibrary"/> was the first batter of the series. He went 0 for 6 during the first two games. In game 3, he was hit in the face by a Jack Pfiester curveball and suffered a broken nose. He walked to the Cook County Hospital, which was a block away, for treatment.<ref>Weisberger, p. 122.</ref> The next day, he was back on the field for game 4, wearing a rubber air hose on his nostril. He received "loud and long" cheers from the crowd at his appearance.<ref>Weisberger, p. 129.</ref>
After getting hit, Hahn went 6 for 14 (.429) against the Cubs' pitching.<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1906_WS.shtml "1906 World Series"]. ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-11-06.</ref> He scored two runs in game 5 and two more in game 6 as the White Sox pulled off one of the biggest upsets in World Series history.<ref>Snyder, John. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=byb0zp0uuZIC Cubs Journal: Year by Year and Day by Day with the Chicago Cubs Since 1876]'' (Emmis Books, 2005), p. 135.</ref> It was the team's first Series win.<ref>[https://www.espn.com/mlb/worldseries/history/winners "MLB World Series Champions"] . ''espn.go.com''. Retrieved 2010-11-11.</ref>
1907 was Hahn's best season in the major leagues. He finished in the league's top five in runs (87) scored, walks (84), and hits by pitches (12), while batting .255. He also led all outfielders with a .990 fielding percentage.<ref name="reference"/>
Hahn had another solid year in 1908. However, he hit poorly in 1909 and 1910 and then went down to the minors. In 1911, he was a player-manager for the Mansfield Brownies of the Ohio–Pennsylvania League. He then played five seasons for the Western League's Des Moines Boosters before retiring.<ref name="minors"/>
==Later life== Hahn had owned a pottery business during the offseasons.<ref name="Weisberger"/> After his baseball days were over, he became a night watchman for a cement company plant in Des Moines, Iowa.<ref>Weisberger, p. 167.</ref> He died in 1941.
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==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=h/hahned01|fangraphs=1005203|brm=hahn--003wil}} *{{Find a Grave}}
{{1906 Chicago White Sox}}
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