Bill Terry

"He once hit a ball between my legs so hard," Dizzy Dean said, "that my center fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall." Bill Terry's big league career almost ended before it began. Once he got his chance though, Terry became one of the National League's best first baseman of the 1920s and '30s, followed by a highly successful managerial career.

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William Harold "Bill" Terry was a superior first baseman in the 1920s and 1930s and one of baseball's premier managers in the 1930s. Born in Atlanta on October 30, 1898, he had an unsettled childhood. His parents suffered through an unhappy marriage, finally separating when he was in his mid-teens. Terry was essentially on his own from that point on, his natural independence enhanced by the need to care for himself at such a young age.

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Bill Terry Managerial Record

Career: 154 HR, .341 BA (15th), 1078 RBI, 1B, HOF in 1954, 3xAllStar, Giants 1923-1936, b:L/t:L, 1x BA Leader, born in GA 1898, died 1989, Memphis Bill

William Harold "Bill" Terry (October 30, 1898 – January 9, 1989) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. Terry was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. In 1999, he ranked number 59 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. The Giants retired Terry's uniform number 3 in 1984; it is posted on the facade of the upper deck in the left field corner of AT&T Park. Nicknamed "Memphis Bill", he is most remembered for being the last National League player to hit .400, a feat he accomplished by batting .401 in 1930.[1]