Dan Daub

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Dan Daub

|image=Dan daub2.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|birth_date={{Birth date|1868|1|12}}

|birth_place=Middletown, Ohio, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1951|3|25|1868|1|12}}

|death_place=Bradenton, Florida, U.S.

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=August 31

|debutyear=1892

|debutteam=Cincinnati Reds

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 1

|finalyear=1897

|finalteam=Brooklyn Bridegrooms

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat1value=45–52

|stat2value=4.75

|stat3value=185

|teams=

Cincinnati Reds ({{Baseball year|1892}})
Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms ({{Baseball year|1893}}–{{Baseball year|1897}})

}}

Daniel William Daub (January 12, 1868 – March 25, 1951) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball pitcher born in Middletown, Ohio. After attending and playing baseball for Denison University,{{cite web|title=An Early History of Lambda Deuteron Chapter at Denison University |work=by Max B. Norpell (Denison 1912) |url=http://www.phigam.org/history/Magazine/Denison.htm |accessdate=2008-01-16 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114200551/http://www.phigam.org/history/Magazine/Denison.htm |archivedate=2007-11-14 |url-status=dead }} he played for the Cincinnati Reds in {{Baseball year|1892}} and with the Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms from {{Baseball year|1893}} through {{Baseball year|1897}}.{{cite web| title = Dan Daub's Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/D/Pdaubd101.htm | accessdate = 2008-01-16 }}

The New York Times reported on December 22, 1895, that Dan was among approximately 20 men who stoned and fired shotguns, also known as whitecapping, upon the home of Mrs. Wescoe of Hamilton, Ohio. Daub, who passes his winters in Mintonville, Ohio, was also among those that had warrants issued for his arrest.{{cite news| title =Daub Accused of Whitecapping | work = The New York Times, December 22, 1895 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/12/22/102484171.pdf | accessdate = 2008-01-16 | date=December 22, 1895}}

After his playing career was over, Dan became the coach of the Ohio Wesleyan University baseball team, a post he held for the {{Baseball year|1902}} season,{{cite web| title = Ohio Wesleyan: Battling Bishops, 2007 Season, pg. 23 | work =bishops.owu.edu | url=http://bishops.owu.edu/download/ba07.pdf | accessdate = 2008-01-16 }} then he resigned before the following season. His replacement was a ballplayer named Branch Rickey, who was recently ruled ineligible to play college ball due to his prior professional baseball career.{{cite book| title = Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman, pgs 21 & 22 | via = by Lee Lowenfish, Inc NetLibrary | isbn = 978-0803211032 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuVCBUIgN0IC&q=%22dan+daub%22+baseball&pg=PA22| accessdate = 2008-01-16 | last1 = Lowenfish | first1 = Lee | date = January 2007 | publisher = U of Nebraska Press }} Daub died at the age of 83 in Bradenton, Florida, and is interred at Hickory Flats Cemetery in Overpeck, Ohio.