Bill Carrigan played for the Boston Red Sox between 1906 and 1916, and he was a player-manager for the last four of those seasons.
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20 Facts About Bill Carrigan
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Bill Carrigan returned to the Red Sox as a manager between 1927 and 1929; the team finished in last place in each of those seasons.
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Bill Carrigan then returned to his native Lewiston, where he was named a bank president in 1953 and where he died in 1969.
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Bill Carrigan's brother John was a talented pitcher, and Bill Carrigan served as his catcher.
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Bill Carrigan played football and baseball at Lewiston High School; he played roller polo, but it caused him to get into fights, and his brother pleaded with him to stop playing.
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Bill Carrigan studied at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Bill Carrigan started his career as a platoon catcher and played all ten seasons with the Boston Red Sox.
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Biographer Richard A Johnson noted that Carrigan was known in baseball for combining toughness with intelligence.
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Bill Carrigan had a close relationship with Detroit Tigers star Ty Cobb.
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Bill Carrigan was among a group of Catholics on the team who were more aligned with team co-owner Jimmy McAleer.
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Author Thomas Whalen writes that Speaker and Bill Carrigan once had a fistfight, and Bill Carrigan won the fight, helping him to establish a sense of authority.
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Bill Carrigan received a dispensation from the Catholic Church to marry a Protestant woman, Beulah Bartlett, before the 1915 baseball season.
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Bill Carrigan was looking to devote more attention to a movie theater partnership known as the Maine and New Hampshire Theater Corporation.
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In January 1922, Bill Carrigan sold his interests in the corporation to Gray; the Washington Times said that Bill Carrigan was thought to have received between $200,000 and $250,000.
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Bill Carrigan did return to the Red Sox, but it was as a manager and not until 1927.
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Bill Carrigan was unable to duplicate his previous success, as Boston finished in last place for three straight seasons.
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In 1953, Bill Carrigan was named president of People's Savings Bank in Lewiston.
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Bill Carrigan died at Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston at the age of 85.
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Bill Carrigan was posthumously elected to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2004.
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