Frederick Aloys Hahn (February 16, 1929 – August 16, 1984) was an American

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who worked in one game in

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(MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals in ."Fred Hahn Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-10. Despite his brief MLB tenure, Hahn, a left-hander from Nyack, New York, had a 13-year (1947–1959) professional career. He was listed as tall and . In his lone big-league appearance, on April 19, 1952, at

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, Hahn was called into the contest in the seventh

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in command, 6–0. He pitched the seventh and eighth innings and allowed two unearned runs, two

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and one

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br>box score (19 April 1952): "Chicago Cubs 8, St. Louis Cardinals 1"
/ref> He spent the rest of 1952 at Triple-A Rochester.

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