:Fred Hayner

{{Short description|American baseball player (1871–1929)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Fred Hayner

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Unknown

|birth_date=November 3, 1871

|birth_place=Janesville, Wisconsin

|death_date={{death date and age|1929|1|14|1871|11|3}}

|death_place=Lake Forest, Illinois

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=August 19

|debutyear=1890

|debutteam=Pittsburgh Alleghenys

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 19

|finalyear=1890

|finalteam=Pittsburgh Alleghenys

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0-0

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=13.50

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=1

|teams=

• Pittsburgh Alleghenys ({{Baseball year|1890}})

}}

Fred Ames Hayner (November 3, 1871 – January 14, 1929){{Cite news |date=January 15, 1929 |title=Dies in Mysterious Fire |page=1 |work=St. Joseph News-Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111103047/st-joseph-news-press/}} was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in one game, on August 19, 1890 with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys of the National League. He pitched four innings in relief and allowed nine runs, six of which were earned. Hayner later became a sportswriter for the Chicago Daily News in Chicago and is credited (along with George Rice) with coining the name "Cubs" to refer to the team then known as the Chicago Colts, owing to their young age.{{cite book|last=Schlossberg|first=Dan|title=Baseball Bits: The Best Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Dugout to the Outfield|year=2008|publisher=Alpha Books|isbn=9781592577750|page=187}} The name was officially adopted in 1906.

Hayner also went to Lake Forest College and helped innovate the flying tackle in football.{{cite web|url=http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p963|title=Hotchkiss Hall|date=2006-11-01|access-date=2016-01-01}}{{cite web|url=http://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/2853|title=Fred A. Hayner, Lake Forest University Class of 1895|access-date=2016-01-01}}