Artie Dede

{{short description|American baseball player (1895-1971)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Artie Dede

|position=Catcher

|image=Artie Dede of the Uticas (cropped).png

|caption=Dede playing in a youth baseball game in Brooklyn in 1911

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date=July 12, 1895

|birth_place=Brooklyn, New York

|death_date={{death date and age|1971|9|6|1895|7|12}}

|death_place=Keene, New Hampshire

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=October 4

|debutyear=1916

|debutteam=Brooklyn Robins

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 4

|finalyear=1916

|finalteam=Brooklyn Robins

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.000

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=0

|teams=

• Brooklyn Robins ({{mlby|1916}})

}}

Arthur Richard Dede (July 12, 1895 – September 6, 1971) was a professional baseball player who played catcher in one game for the 1916 Brooklyn Robins. Dede was a local Brooklynite semi-pro catcher who had been traveling with the team to catch batting practice. He got into the only Major League game of his career when third-string Brooklyn catcher Mack Wheat broke a finger in the sixth inning of the season's penultimate game. He caught the final three innings with Leon Cadore pitching.{{cite news |title=Superba Rookies Beaten By Giants |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-superba-rookies/128087533/ |access-date=12 July 2023 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=5 October 1916 |pages=22}}

After his playing career ended, he was a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1957 and the New York Yankees from 1958 to 1971.