{{short description|American baseball player, manager, and umpire}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Ed Hengel |image= |caption= |position=Manager / Umpire |birth_date={{Birth date|1855|9|16}} |birth_place=Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1927|11|4|1855|9|16}} |death_place=Norwich, England |bats= |throws= |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Games managed |stat1value=74 |stat2label=Managerial record |stat2value=34–39 |stat3label=Winning percentage |stat3value={{Winning percentage|34|39}} |teams= * Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies ({{mlby|1884}}) }} '''Edward Siegfried Hengel''' (September 16, 1855 – November 4, 1927) was an American professional baseball player, manager, and umpire. He is best known for managing the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies, a team in the major league Union Association that only operated in 1884.
==Biography== Hengel served as a single-season manager for four different teams, three of them in the minor leagues.<ref name=brm/> His minor league teams were the Quincy Quincys (Quincy, Illinois) of the Northwestern League in 1883, the Hastings Hustlers (Hastings, Nebraska) of the Western League in 1887, and the Hamilton, Ohio, team of the Tri-State League in 1889.<ref name=brm/> Records for these minor league teams are incomplete.<ref name=brm/> Baseball records further indicate that Hengel also appeared as a player for Hamilton in 1889, but no statistics are available.<ref name=brm>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hengle001edw |title=Ed Hengel Career League Statistics & History |website=Baseball-Reference.com |accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref>
In 1884, the only season of the Union Association, considered to have been a major league, Hengel was the first manager of the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies.<ref name=br>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/hengled99.shtml |title=Ed Hengel Managerial Record |website=Baseball-Reference.com |accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref> He compiled a record of 34–39 in 74 games,<ref name=br/>{{efn|One game that Hengel managed ended in a tie;<ref name=br/> tie games are excluded from major league team win–loss records.}} before he was replaced by Joe Battin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/battijo01.shtml |title=Joe Battin Managerial Record |website=Baseball-Reference.com |accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref>
Hengel also served as a major league umpire during two seasons; 11 games in the National League in 1886, and 20 games in the American Association in 1889.<ref name=retro/> He ejected two players, both in 1889; Mark Baldwin and Oyster Burns.<ref name=retro>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Phenge801.htm |title=Ed Hengel |website=Retrosheet |accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref> He was also reported as being an umpire in the minor Northwestern League during 1883.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57100095/base-ball/ |title=Base Ball |newspaper=The Register |location=Clinton, Illinois |page=7 |date=April 27, 1883 |accessdate=August 10, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> His umpiring was described as "uniformly good" in 1886.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57099774/base-ball-news/ |title=Base Ball News |newspaper=Oshkosh Northwestern |location=Oshkosh, Wisconsin |page=3 |date=May 13, 1886 |accessdate=August 10, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
Born in Chicago in 1855, Hengel died at age 72 in 1927 in Norwich, England.<ref name=retro/> A brother, Moxie Hengel, was a major league second baseman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Phengm101.htm |title=Moxie Hengel |website=Retrosheet |accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Baseball-reference manager|hengled99}} *[https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Phenge801.htm Managerial and Umpiring career statistics] at Retrosheet *{{baseballstats |brm=hengle001edw}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hengle, Edward}} Category:1927 deaths Category:1855 births Category:Baseball managers Category:Hamilton (minor league baseball) players Category:Major League Baseball umpires Category:Baseball players from Chicago