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* Bill McKechnie – inducted as manager, played for Giants in 1916.
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Major League players that jumped to the Federal League included Bill McKechnie, Claude Hendrix, Jack Quinn, Russell Ford, Tom Seaton, Doc Crandall, Al Bridwell, Hy Myers and Hal Chase.
During his early years when Doby was in the dugout often, Doby also credited Indians coach Bill McKechnie, who remained in the dugout while Boudreau would play shortstop, with helping him adjust to the majors and learning the outfield.
In addition to Roush's selection into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 ( chosen with Bill McKechnie ), he is also a member of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, being inducted in 1960.
Carey ( right ), and Boston's Bill McKechnie watch as John H. McCooey throws out the first ball of Brooklyn's 1932 season
On June 10, the Reds were playing the first place St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field and trailing 13-0 in the ninth inning when Manager Bill McKechnie called on Nuxhall to enter the game.
Along with Boudreau, Indians coach Bill McKechnie was credited by Lemon as helping him adjust to his new position.
In 1947 he joined the major league Indians during spring training but before the regular season started was sent by Cleveland coach Bill McKechnie to Class A Wilkes-Barre Barons of the Eastern League, where he finished with 17 wins and a 3. 24 ERA.
Those players are: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Luke Appling, Gabby Hartnett, Harmon Killebrew, Nap Lajoie, Al Lopez, Rube Marquard, Joe McCarthy, Bill McKechnie, Ray Schalk.
The team was managed by Billy Southworth ( who split time managing the team in 1929 with Bill McKechnie ), and from 1929 – 1931, the team won the International League championship.
Hershberger oddly enough told manager Bill McKechnie that " my father killed himself, and I'm going to do it, too!
His last game was on August 11, 1926 ; he was released days later after joining a group of players who requested that former manager and team vice president Fred Clarke, who had been openly criticizing manager Bill McKechnie, not be permitted to sit on the bench.
McKechnie's son Bill, Jr. was the farm system director of the Cincinnati Redlegs in the mid-1950s and later served as president of the Pacific Coast League, and he was also the father of former Syracuse radio station WNDR sportscaster Jim McKechnie.
* Joe Cronin became the fourth manager to take two teams to the World Series ( Pat Moran, Bill McKechnie, and Joe McCarthy were the first three ) but was the first who did not win with either of them.
Bill McKechnie became the second manager to lead two different teams to the World Series, and like Pat Moran, he won one and lost one.
Reds ' manager Bill McKechnie became the first manager to win a World Series with two different teams ; in 1925 he had won the Series as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It is the spring training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and is named for Bradenton resident and baseball great, Bill McKechnie, who led the Pirates in 1925 and the Cincinnati Reds in 1940 to World Series titles.
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* 1964 – Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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* 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
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