Charles Fredrick Krause (October 2, 1873 â March 30, 1948) was an American Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the 1901 Cincinnati Reds. Krause played in just one major league game, playing second base and going 1-4 with a single and a pair of strikeouts in the Reds 9-3 loss to the Chicago Orphans on July 27, 1901.