Early baseball career Doe began his long minor league career in 1886, with the
Newburyport Clamdiggers of the
New England League. He also played with
Haverhill in 1886 and 1887. Doe was also the occasional
player-manager of both Newburyport and Haverhill.
Major League Baseball On August 23, 1890, Doe started a game for the
Buffalo Bisons of the
Players' League. He allowed 10
hits, eight
earned runs, seven
base on balls, and
struck out two
Boston Reds hitters over 6.0 innings. Boston won the game 10–0. One week later, on August 30, Doe pitched for the
Pittsburgh Burghers in a game against the Boston Reds. He relieved
John Tener in the sixth innings, after Tenner allowed 14 runs. Doe pitched 4.0 innings for Pittsburgh, and allowed four hits and two earned runs, while collecting two strikeouts. The Burghers lost the game 16–4. The Players' League would fold after the season, and Doe would not play in the major leagues again.
Return to the New England League After his brief major league stint, Doe would play and manage several
New England Leagues teams from 1892 to 1902. He played for the
Brockton Shoemakers in 1892 and 1893, and the Haverill club in 1894. In 1895, he started the
New Bedford Whalers, acting as a manager, pitcher, and
outfielder. After New Bedford folded after 1896, he formed the
Fall River Indians club. Doe would soon return to New Bedford in 1898, forming a new Whalers club. The New England League would fold temporarily in mid-1898. Norwich won the league pennant, Doe's only championship as a manager. Doe returned to the New England League in 1900, managing
Dover. He returned to Brockton in 1903, but the club moved to New Bedford mid-way through the season. Doe stayed in New Bedford as club manager until 1905. In 1906, he purchased the
Worcester Busters, New England League team managed by future
Baseball Hall of Famer Jesse Burkett. He would later control the
Providence Grays of the
Eastern League. Providence was the only
New England team to allow baseball to be played on Sunday. Doe would become a driving force in the movement to allow baseball to be played state-wide in the late 1928. Doe died on October 4, 1938, in
Quincy, Massachusetts, and is buried in
Oak Grove Cemetery in Gloucester. ==Personal life==