Hack Eibel

{{Short description|American baseball player (1893–1945)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Hack Eibel

|position=Outfielder/Pitcher

|image=

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1893|12|6|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Brooklyn, New York

|death_date={{death date and age|1945|10|16|1893|12|6}}

|death_place=Macon, Georgia

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=June 13

|debutyear=1912

|debutteam=Cleveland Naps

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 17

|finalyear=1920

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.174

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=6

|stat4label=Earned run average

|stat4value=3.48

|stat5label=Innings pitched

|stat5value=10 1/3

|stat6label=Games Finished

|stat6value=2

|teams=

• Cleveland Naps (1912)
• Boston Red Sox (1920)

}}

Henry Hack Eibel (December 6, 1893 – October 16, 1945) was a utility player in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Naps ({{by|1912}}) and Boston Red Sox ({{by|1920}}). Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=11}} and 220 lb., Eibel batted and threw left-handed. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to emigrant parents of German extraction.[https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/c1e46a1f Society for American Baseball Research]"Henry Eibel was born to foreign-born parents. His father, Henry, had come from Germany to America in 1870 and worked as a blacksmith in 1900 and a baker in 1910. His mother, Elizabeth, had been born in England, but to two German parents; she came to America in 1864. " Eibel first played in the majors at the age of 18.

During his brief major league career, Eibel did almost everything a player was asked to do, appearing in 30 games, as a relief pitcher (3 games), left fielder (3), right fielder (3), first baseman (1), and pinch-hitter or pinch-runner (20).

In a two-season career, Eibel was a .174 hitter (8-for-43) with four runs and six RBI, including two doubles and one stolen base. He did not hit a home run. In three relief appearances, he posted a 3.48 ERA with five strikeouts and three walks in 10⅓ innings and did not have a decision.

Eibel shot himself to death in Macon, Georgia at age 51.{{Cite news |date=October 17, 1945 |title=Hack Eibel Fatally Shot |page=2 |work=The Macon Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108114172/the-macon-telegraph/ |access-date=August 22, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}} Macon was also the town of Eibel's final professional ball club team. Eibel retired from baseball in 1924.