Joe Engel

Who was Joe Engel?

Joseph William "Joe" Engel was an American right-handed pitcher and scout in Major League Baseball who spent nearly his entire career with the Washington Senators, and went on to become a promoter and team owner in the minor leagues. He was born in Washington, D.C. as one of six children of a German immigrant who owned a bar/hotel next door to the Washington Post building in the District of Columbia. Engel was married twice and lost his only child, son Bryant in a traffic accident in Nov. 1930 at age 9. Engel himself died in Chattanooga in 1969 at age 76.