Billy Orr (baseball)
Appearance
Billy Orr | |
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Shortstop | |
Born: San Francisco, California, US | April 22, 1891|
Died: March 10, 1967 St. Helena, California, US | (aged 75)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
May 3, 1913, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
Last MLB appearance | |
May 22, 1914, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .187 |
Home runs | 0 |
Runs batted in | 8 |
Stats at Baseball Reference | |
Teams | |
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Career highlights and awards | |
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William John Orr (April 22, 1891 – March 10, 1967) was a Major League Baseball infielder. He played parts of two seasons in the majors, 1913 and 1914, for the Philadelphia Athletics. He played primarily at shortstop, but also played all three other infield positions.
After his major league career, Orr played for ten years in the Pacific Coast League. He also briefly served as head coach of the Stanford Cardinal baseball program, and managed the Salt Lake City Bees in 1926.
Sources
[edit]- Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
Categories:
- Major League Baseball shortstops
- Philadelphia Athletics players
- Salt Lake City Skyscrapers players
- Sacramento Sacts players
- Sacramento Wolves players
- Mission Wolves players
- Salt Lake City Bees players
- Sacramento Senators players
- Seattle Indians players
- Shreveport Gassers players
- Minor league baseball managers
- Baseball players from San Francisco
- 1891 births
- 1967 deaths
- American baseball shortstop stubs