Pat Friel

Patrick Henry Friel (June 11, 1860 – January 15, 1924) was an American professional baseball player from the early 1880s to the mid-1890s. Friel was born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and his brother Bill Friel was also a professional baseball player. He began his minor league baseball career in 1883, and continued through the end of the 1896 season. During that timespan, he played for the notable minor league team, London Tecumsehs and two Major League Baseball teams, the Syracuse Stars in 1890, and the Philadelphia Athletics in 1891. Friel died at the age of 63 in Providence, Rhode Island, and is interred at St. Francis Cemetery in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.