Astyanax Douglass

{{Short description|American baseball player (1897–1975)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Astyanax Douglass

|image=Astyanax Douglass yearbook photo.png

|position=Catcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1897|9|19|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Covington, Texas, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1975|1|26|1897|9|19}}

|death_place=El Paso, Texas, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 30

|debutyear=1921

|debutteam=Cincinnati Reds

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 29

|finalyear=1925

|finalteam=Cincinnati Reds

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.167

|stat2label=Home run

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=1

|teams=

• Cincinnati Reds ({{mlby|1921}}, {{mlby|1925}})

}}

Astyanax Saunders Douglass (September 19, 1897 – January 26, 1975) was an American Major League Baseball catcher. He played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1921 and 1925.

Born in Covington, Texas, Douglass attended Texas Christian University (TCU), where he played college baseball, college basketball and college football.{{cite news |title=Douglass Returned to Frog Basketball when Most Needed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-douglass-return/129626566/ |access-date=8 August 2023 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |date=13 February 1919 |pages=11}}

The Reds invited Douglass for a tryout mostly in an effort to entice his TCU batterymate, Pete Donohue, to join the team. Donohue caught on with the Reds while Douglass' trial was short lived.{{cite news |last1=Brown |title=Sports Done by Brown |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bellingham-herald-sports-done-by-bro/129438990/ |access-date=4 August 2023 |work=The Bellingham Herald |date=2 April 1925 |pages=15}}

Later in life, Douglass worked as a furniture dealer and operated a furniture warehouse in El Paso, Texas for several years.{{cite news |title=Hall of Fame in E.P. Search Ends |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/el-paso-herald-post-hall-of-fame-in-ep/129626352/ |access-date=8 August 2023 |work=El Paso Herald-Post |date=3 March 1969 |pages=17}} He died in 1975 in El Paso, Texas of a cardiac arrest.{{cite web|title=Astyanax Douglass Death Certificate|url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/DeathCertificates/Certificates_D/Douglass.Astyanax.DC.pdf|website=thedeadballera.com|accessdate=3 February 2018}}