Ed Hengel

Edward Siegfried Hengel (September 16, 1855 – November 4, 1927) was an American professional baseball player, manager, and umpire. He is best known for managing the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies, a team in the major league Union Association that only operated in 1884.

Biography Hengel served as a single-season manager for four different teams, three of them in the minor leagues.

In 1884, the only season of the Union Association, considered to have been a major league, Hengel was the first manager of the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies. He compiled a record of 34–39 in 74 games,

Hengel also served as a major league umpire during two seasons; 11 games in the National League in 1886, and 20 games in the American Association in 1889. He was also reported as being an umpire in the minor Northwestern League during 1883. His umpiring was described as "uniformly good" in 1886.

Born in Chicago in 1855, Hengel died at age 72 in 1927 in Norwich, England.