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Fred Arbeiter
Born: September 15, 1889
Died: June 14, 1967
Goto Baseball Reference for Fred Arbeiter 		p Majors:
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St. Louis
Position: p
First game: May 7, 1913
Last game: May 13, 1913
# of games: 2		 Identified in the Perry County Republican (Perryville, MO) on May 13, 1915 as pitching in a game between the Perryville Tigers and the Jacob Elks. "The feature of the game was the wonderful pitching of Fred Arbeiter, the ex-Federal Leaguer who a few years ago pitched for the St. Louis Federals under Manager Brown."

A random post about Fred Arbeiter.


Fred Arbeiter was pitching for the Belleville Beyers of the Missouri-Illinois League when he was signed by manager O'Connor to be part of the Terriers quickly assembled pitching staff at the start of the season. He started the club's second game, against Chicago in St. Louis. For three innings he held the Keeleys (so-called for manager Burt Keeley) to just one run, which scored on a single, a sacrifice, an infield hit, and a fielder's choice. In the fourth inning, however, he gave up a single and a double (scoring a run), and then got a strikeout before the flood gates opened. Another single put runners on first and third. Murphy booted a grounder (with a run scoring), and then the pitcher walked on four striaght balls after an 0-2 count. Murphy fumbled another grounder as another run scored, a sacrifice fly brought in the fourth run of the inning, and a single brought in a fifth run before a runner was thrown out advancing to third. Two walks and a triple contributed to three runs in the ninth. The final score was 10-5 in favor of Chicago.

Arbeiter's second and final appearance was a week later in Covington. Beebe started the game, allowing just one run in the first four innings. He then walked four of the first five hitters in the fifth inning. Exit Beebe, enter Arbeiter, who was even less successful than Beebe. A double, a walk, and a single brought in four more runs before a strikeout put the second out on the board. He then walked two more hitters and was pulled. Gwin came in and got a strikeout to end the inning. Despite the excitement, St. Louis won the game, having built up a 7-0 lead prior to the 6-run outburst by Covington in the fifth inning that tied the score. St. Louis scored three in the seventh and one in the eighth to win 11-8.

Arbeiter was released before St. Louis returned home. O'Connor tried several other pitchers before Ridgway, then Reis and Pfyl were signed over the next few weeks to fill out the pitching staff with Rehmer and Gwin.

Fred Arbeiter was identified in the Perry County Republican (Perryville, Missouri), when he pitched for the Jacob (IL) Elks against the Altenburg (MO) Tigers. "The feature of the game was the wonderful pitching of Fred Arbeiter, the ex-Federal Leaguer for the St. Louis Federals under Manager Brown" (May 13, 1915, pg. 10). Several years later, the same paper noted that Fred Arbeiter of Jacob, Illinois, visited friends in Altenburg (September 21, 1922, pg. 2). His name appears in the newspapers of Murphysboro, Illinois through the years, as he owned a farm near there. He married Sophia Schomber on December 25, 1913. They had eight children and celebrated a fiftieth anniversary in 1963. He died on June 14, 1967 and is buried in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Harrison, Illinois with his wife, who died in 1981.