# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-merkle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:17:52.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-merkle"
name: "Fred Merkle"
slug: "fred-merkle"
description: "Carl Frederick Rudolf Merkle, nicknamed \"Bonehead\", was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball from 1907 to 1926. Although he had a lengthy career, he is best remembered for a controversial base-running mistake he made as a rookie while still a teenager."
tagline: "American baseball player (1888–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Merkle_1908.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1888-12-20"
deathDate: "1956-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.95
  momentum:             17.28112449799197
  historical:           4.655044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%84"
    title: "فريد ميركل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Merkle"
    title: "Fred Merkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB"
    title: "フレッド・マークル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%A0%88%EB%93%9C_%EB%A8%B8%ED%81%B4"
    title: "프레드 머클"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Merkle"
    title: "Fred Merkle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1562604"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump