This is an article about the baseball player Joe Engel.
For the astronaut, see Joe Engle.Joseph William Engel (March 12, 1893 – June 12, 1969) was an American left-handed pitcher and scout in Major League Baseball who spent nearly his entire career with the Washington Senators, and went on to become a promoter and team owner in the minor leagues.
He was born in Washington, D.C.
as one of six children of a German immigrant who owned a bar/hotel next door to the Washington Post building in the District of Columbia.
Engel was married twice and lost his only child, son Bryant, due to a traffic accident in Nov.
1930 at age 9.
Engel himself died in Chattanooga in 1969 at age 76.