Fred Douglas Van Dyke (October 27, 1871 – March 19, 1959) was an American

Negro league The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

in the 1890s. A native of Vandalia, Michigan, Van Dyke played for the

Page Fence Giants The Page Fence Giants were a professional Black-American baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan, from 1895 to 1898, performing as one of the nation's top teams in the Negro leagues. Named after the Page Woven Wire Fence Company in Adrian, they ...

in 1895. He later played for the Sam Folz Colored Giants of Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1899. Van Dyke died in Centreville, Michigan in 1959 at age 87.

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