Fred Koenig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player, manager and executive
Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1931
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 12-Jan-1993
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Fred Koenig
- Fred Carl Koenig (April 27, 1931 – January 12, 1993) was an American first baseman and manager in minor league baseball and a coach and farm system director at the Major League level.
- A native of St.
- Louis, Missouri, Koenig threw and batted right-handed and stood 6'3" (190 cm) and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg) in his playing days.
- He graduated from St.
- Louis' Central High School and attended the University of Illinois. Koenig's baseball career began in 1951 with his hometown St.
- Louis Cardinals as a member of the Hamilton Cardinals of the Class D PONY League.
- His career as a first baseman continued through 1961, but Koenig spent most of his career at the Double-A level, reaching Triple-A in 1959 for only 16 games and 49 at bats with the Omaha Cardinals of the American Association.
- In his best minor league campaign, with the 1954 Allentown Cardinals of the Class A Eastern League, Koenig batted .287 with 11 home runs and 83 runs batted in in 484 at-bats.
- He also led the league's first basemen in putouts and double plays and was selected to the Eastern League all-star team. He became a manager in the Cardinal farm system in 1962, with the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the Class C Northern League.
- Switching to the California Angels organization in 1965, he managed at the Rookie and Class A levels and won the 1968 Midwest League championship at the helm of the Quad Cities Angels.
- Koenig then came to the Major Leagues as a coach for Angel skipper Lefty Phillips for 1970–71. After Phillips' firing in Anaheim at the close of 1971, Koenig returned to the Cardinals for two seasons as a minor league manager, sandwiched around two seasons (1973–74) as the Redbirds' director of player development.
- He then was a Major League coach for the Cardinals (1976), Texas Rangers (1977–82), Chicago Cubs (1983), and Cleveland Indians (1986).
- Koenig later worked in the Atlanta Braves' farm system as a roving coach and manager at the Rookie level.
- He died in Wagoner, Oklahoma, at age 61.
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