Fred James Hatfield (March 18, 1925 – May 22, 1998), nicknamed "Scrap Iron",[1] was an American Major League Baseball infielder who played nine seasons in the Major Leagues with the Boston Red Sox (1950–52), Detroit Tigers (1952–56), Chicago White Sox (1956–57), Cleveland Indians (1958) and Cincinnati Redlegs (1958).

He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 171 pounds (78 kg).

As a big-leaguer, Hatfield played in 722 games and had a career batting average of .242 with an on-base percentage of .332.

He skippered teams in the minors for 16 years between 1960 and 1986, spent two seasons (1977–78) as the third-base coach on Ralph Houk's Detroit Tigers staff, and five years (1964–68) as head baseball coach of the Florida State Seminoles, where he posted a 161–57 (.739) record.

He was posthumously inducted into the Florida State University Hall of Fame in 1999.