Frank Bahret

{{Short description|American baseball player (1858–1888)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Frank Bahret

|position=Outfielder

|image=

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Unknown

|birth_date=1858

|birth_place=Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1888|3|30|1858}}

|death_place=Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 17

|debutyear=1884

|debutteam= Baltimore Monumentals

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=April 22

|finalyear=1884

|finalteam= Baltimore Monumentals

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.000

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs scored

|stat3value=0

|teams=

• Baltimore Monumentals (1884)

}}

Franklin F. Bahret (1858 – March 30, 1888), sometimes referenced as Frank J. Bahret{{cite news |title=Poughkeepsie Items |newspaper=The Sporting Life |date=March 12, 1884 |page=3 |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/20907/rec/5 |via=LA84 Foundation}} was an American professional baseball outfielder for the Baltimore Monumentals of the Union Association in 1884. He also played for Indianapolis during the 1884 season.{{cite web |title=Frank J. Bahret |publisher=The Sporting News Player Contract Cards |via=LA84 Foundation |accessdate=July 9, 2021 |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/17466/rec/1}} He stood {{height|ft=6|in=1}} and weighed {{Convert|184|lb|abbr=on}}.

Bahret was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1858. After playing in 1883 for the Poughkeepsie Browns, Bahret signed with Baltimore during the {{by|1884}} off-season for a salary of $1,000.{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/114053878/ |title=Base Ball Notes |date=January 25, 1884 |publisher=Poughkeepsie Eagle-News}} He debuted on April 17, 1884 (Opening Day) against the Washington Nationals. He had no hits in four at-bats, but played well in center field.{{cite book |last1=Nemec |first1=David |author-link1=David Nemec |title=The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball: Biographies of 1,084 Players, Owners, Managers and Umpires |date=2012 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0-7864-9044-8 |page=217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFNK7be-KGcC |access-date=12 April 2021 |language=en}} Bahret made his second and last professional baseball appearance on April 22, 1884, playing in center field against the Philadelphia Keystones.{{cite web |title=Events of Tuesday, April 22, 1884 |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1884/04221884.htm |website=www.retrosheet.org |publisher=Retrosheet |access-date=12 April 2021}}{{cite news |title=Baltimore Union vs. National Union |newspaper=The Sporting Life |date=April 23, 1884 |page=5 |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/20962/rec/2 |via=LA84 Foundation}} He was released from the Monumentals before the end of April.{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/114063726/ |title=Released |date=May 7, 1884 |publisher=Poughkeepsie Eagle-News}} For his career, Bahret had zero hits in eight at bats and handled four fielding chances without an error.{{cite web |title=Frank Bahret Stats |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bahrefr01.shtml |website=Baseball-Reference.com |access-date=12 April 2021 |language=en}}

After his brief baseball career, Bahret worked as a cooper in Baltimore. He died on March 30, 1888, at his home in Poughkeepsie.