Batting average .226 Role Baseball player Name Bill Greenwood | Runs batted in 185 Home runs 8 | |
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Died May 2, 1902, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
William F. Greenwood (1857 – May 2, 1902) was an American Major League Baseball player who played the majority of his career as a second baseman for a total of six seasons from 1882 to 1890. He was a left-handed infielder, not entirely uncommon in the 19th century, he is the all-time leader in games played at second base by a left-hander with 538. He also played 30 games at shortstop.
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Career
For the 1883 season, he signed and was playing for the Merrits of Camden, New Jersey, when Charlie Byrne of a fellow league team, the Brooklyn Grays bought his contract, along with other Merrits Sam Kimber, Charlie Householder, Frank Fennelly, and Jack Corcoran. He finished out the year and transitioned with the team over to the American Association, where they would be known as the Atlantics.
Post-career
Greenwood died in his hometown of Philadelphia at the age of 44 or 45, and is interred at the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia.