Baseball Pitcher. Major league right-handed pitcher "Wild Bill" Piercy played for the New York Yankees in 1917, 1919, and 1921, the Boston Red Sox from 1922 through 1924, and the Chicago Cubs in 1926. Also known as "Big Bill," he stood 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighed 185 pounds, had blue eyes and light hair and was a close friend of Babe Ruth. After the Yankees lost the World Series to the Giants in 1921, Piercy joined a group of players nicknamed by the Associated Press, "Babe Ruth's all-star outlaw team." They made sensational newspaper headlines in October 1921 for "defying" the rule that World Series players must not "barnstorm"- play post-season exhibition baseball. Piercy played five "forbidden" exhibition games before the team broke up the tour. Six weeks later, Baseball Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fined Piercy the amount of all of his World Series money and suspended him from play until May 20, 1922. Bill Piercy retired from baseball in 1930 and became the labor union president of the CIO Marine Clerks Association in Wilmington, California, a position later held by his son Bill, Jr. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 55 at San Pedro, California. His cremated remains were buried at Green Hills Memorial Park on March 14, 1953.∼William Benton Piercy was the third child born to John and Jarilla Tatham Piercy. He was married to Maxine E. Simonson. He has twp sons, one son still living, and John Robert Piercy.
William was cremated.
Bill played professional baseball as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
William was cremated.
Bill played professional baseball as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
Baseball Pitcher. Major league right-handed pitcher "Wild Bill" Piercy played for the New York Yankees in 1917, 1919, and 1921, the Boston Red Sox from 1922 through 1924, and the Chicago Cubs in 1926. Also known as "Big Bill," he stood 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighed 185 pounds, had blue eyes and light hair and was a close friend of Babe Ruth. After the Yankees lost the World Series to the Giants in 1921, Piercy joined a group of players nicknamed by the Associated Press, "Babe Ruth's all-star outlaw team." They made sensational newspaper headlines in October 1921 for "defying" the rule that World Series players must not "barnstorm"- play post-season exhibition baseball. Piercy played five "forbidden" exhibition games before the team broke up the tour. Six weeks later, Baseball Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fined Piercy the amount of all of his World Series money and suspended him from play until May 20, 1922. Bill Piercy retired from baseball in 1930 and became the labor union president of the CIO Marine Clerks Association in Wilmington, California, a position later held by his son Bill, Jr. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 55 at San Pedro, California. His cremated remains were buried at Green Hills Memorial Park on March 14, 1953.∼William Benton Piercy was the third child born to John and Jarilla Tatham Piercy. He was married to Maxine E. Simonson. He has twp sons, one son still living, and John Robert Piercy.
William was cremated.
Bill played professional baseball as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
William was cremated.
Bill played professional baseball as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
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