{{Short description|American baseball player (1864–1938)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Fred Doe |image=Fred Doe.jpg |position=Pitcher |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1864|4|18}} |birth_place=Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1938|10|4|1864|4|18}} |death_place=Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=August 23 |debutyear=1890 |debutteam=Buffalo Bisons |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=August 30 |finalyear=1890 |finalteam=Pittsburgh Burghers |statleague = MLB |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat3value=4 |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=0–1 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=9.00 |teams= * Buffalo Bisons ({{Baseball year|1890}}) * Pittsburgh Burghers ({{Baseball year|1890}}) }} '''Alfred George "Fred" Doe''' (April 18, 1864 – October 4, 1938) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in the minor leagues from 1886 to 1902, and in the Players' League (PL) in 1890. Doe played in one game for both the Buffalo Bisons and the Pittsburgh Burghers in 1890.

==Early life== Doe was born on April 18, 1864, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to George and Elizabeth (Flynn) Doe. He grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts.<ref name="sabr1">{{sabrbio|d552c2e0|Charlie Bevis|July 13, 2013}}</ref>

==Baseball career==

===Early baseball career=== Doe began his long minor league career in 1886, with the Newburyport Clamdiggers of the New England League.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1886 Lynn/Newburyport Clamdiggers Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> He also played with Haverhill in 1886 and 1887. Doe was also the occasional player-manager of both Newburyport and Haverhill.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fred Doe Minor Leagues Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=doe---002fre |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref>

===Major League Baseball=== On August 23, 1890, Doe started a game for the Buffalo Bisons of the Players' League. He allowed 10 hits, eight earned runs, seven base on balls, and struck out two Boston Reds hitters over 6.0 innings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1890 Buffalo Bisons Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BUF/1890.shtml |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> Boston won the game 10–0.

One week later, on August 30, Doe pitched for the Pittsburgh Burghers in a game against the Boston Reds. He relieved John Tener in the sixth innings, after Tenner allowed 14 runs. Doe pitched 4.0 innings for Pittsburgh, and allowed four hits and two earned runs, while collecting two strikeouts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1890 Pittsburgh Burghers Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PBB/1890.shtml |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> The Burghers lost the game 16–4. The Players' League would fold after the season, and Doe would not play in the major leagues again.

===Return to the New England League=== After his brief major league stint, Doe would play and manage several New England Leagues teams from 1892 to 1902. He played for the Brockton Shoemakers in 1892 and 1893, and the Haverill club in 1894. In 1895, he started the New Bedford Whalers, acting as a manager, pitcher, and outfielder. After New Bedford folded after 1896, he formed the Fall River Indians club. Doe would soon return to New Bedford in 1898, forming a new Whalers club. The New England League would fold temporarily in mid-1898.<ref name="sabr1"/>

In 1900, Doe managed and played in the outfield the Norwich Witches of the Connecticut League.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1900 Norwich Witches Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> Norwich won the league pennant, Doe's only championship as a manager.

Doe returned to the New England League in 1900, managing Dover. He returned to Brockton in 1903, but the club moved to New Bedford mid-way through the season. Doe stayed in New Bedford as club manager until 1905.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1905 New Bedford Whalers Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> In 1906, he purchased the Worcester Busters, New England League team managed by future Baseball Hall of Famer Jesse Burkett.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jesse Burkett Minor Leagues Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=burket001jes |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref>

He would later control the Providence Grays of the Eastern League. Providence was the only New England team to allow baseball to be played on Sunday. Doe would become a driving force in the movement to allow baseball to be played state-wide in the late 1928.<ref name="sabr1"/>

Doe died on October 4, 1938, in Quincy, Massachusetts, and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Gloucester.

==Personal life== While living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he met his wife, Mary Bryant. They had one child, a daughter.

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== {{Baseballstats | br=d/doefr01 |fangraphs=|brm=doe---002fre}} *[https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/D/Pdoe-f101.htm Retrosheet]

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