William Harold Terry was an American professional baseball first baseman and manager.
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25 Facts About Bill Terry
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Bill Terry played in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants from 1923 to 1936 and managed the Giants from 1932 to 1941.
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Bill Terry began his career as a pitcher, playing for two separate minor league teams, the Newnan Cowetas of the Georgia–Alabama League and the Dothan club of the FLAG League.
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Bill Terry was now playing in double-A, the highest minor league level at that time.
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Bill Terry made his major league debut with the Giants on September 24,1923 in a game against the Cincinnati Reds.
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Bill Terry got his first major league hit in that game, going 1-for-3 and scoring his first major league run.
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Bill Terry finished the season with one hit in seven at bats in three games.
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Bill Terry played all of 1924 with the Giants, backing up fellow future Hall of Famer George Kelly at first base for the pennant-winning team.
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Bill Terry played in 77 games, 35 at first base and the rest as a pinch-hitter.
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Bill Terry finished 13th in the voting for the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, and his days of being a backup were behind him for good.
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Bill Terry led the league with 254 hits, which is tied for the most in NL history with the Phillies' Lefty O'Doul's 254 in 1929.
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Bill Terry led the league in runs scored with 121 and in triples with 20 while batting.
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Bill Terry became the only Giants player to hit two doubles and two triples in a game when he did so against the Cincinnati Reds on September 13,1931.
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Although, as a player, Bill Terry missed a month early in the season with an injury, he still hit.
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Bill Terry went 6-for-22, hitting a home run in Game 4 off Monte Weaver.
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In 1934 Bill Terry came back to put up big numbers once more, finishing second in the NL in batting at.
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Bill Terry had five runs batted in, but that was not enough, as the Giants lost to the New York Yankees, four games to two.
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Bill Terry retired as a player after the 1936 season, but continued to manage the Giants until 1941.
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Bill Terry held the title of general manager of the Giants from September 7,1937, through the end of the 1942 season.
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Over his 14-year career, Bill Terry posted seven seasons with 100 or more runs, six seasons with 100 or more runs batted in, six seasons with at least 200 hits, and nine consecutive seasons batting.
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Bill Terry currently holds the record for the highest career batting average for a left-handed hitter in the National League at.
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Bill Terry was one of the best fielding first baseman of his era, compiling a career.
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Bill Terry is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:.
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