George Heubel
George Heubel (* 1849 in the German Confederation, † January 22, 1896 in Philadelphia ) was a German baseball player. He played the position of the first baseman and the RightFielders. Heubel was the first German baseball player who ever played baseball in the Major League.
Born in the German Confederation Heubel debuted in 1871 with the Philadelphia Athletics of the National Association, an early U.S. professional league for baseball. Heubel denied in his first season, 17 games and scored 23 hits, 18 runs and a batting average of .307. To this end, he helped the Athletics won the NA Championship with 21-7 games. In his second season he moved to the Washington Olympics, where he completed only five games and his batting average dropped to .130. Then Heubel ended temporarily his career until he gave in 1876 for the New York Mutuals of the newly formed National League ( one still existing part of the Major League Baseball ) a brief one- game comeback. This Heubel became the first German MLB player. Later he worked for one more season (1887 ) as a coach at the Allentown Peanut Eaters in the Minor Leagues.