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William Alex North (born May 15, 1948) is an American former center fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1971 to 1981, he played for the Chicago Cubs (1971–72), Oakland Athletics (1973–78), Los Angeles Dodgers (1978) and San Francisco Giants (1979–81). He was a switch hitter and threw right-handed.
The 1980 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 98th season in Major League Baseball, their 23rd season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 21st at Candlestick Park. The team finished in fifth place in the National League West with a 75–86 record, 17 games behind the Houston Astros.
He and his brothers Bob and Jim, and Jim's twin sister Jan, were raised by their parents, Leonard and Marie Katherine Buckner; his father died in 1966, when Bill was a teenager. His mother was a stenographer for the California Highway Patrol. [3] [4] He graduated from Napa High School in 1968 after playing on the school's baseball and football ...
MLB is mourning one of the greats. On Thursday, Dec. 5, former Chicago White Sox All-Star Bill Melton died in Phoenix, Ariz., after a brief illness.
Power–speed number or power/speed number (PSN) is a sabermetrics baseball statistic developed by baseball author and analyst Bill James which combines a player's home run and stolen base numbers into one number. [1] The formula is: = +. [1] (It is the harmonic mean of the two totals.)
For his career, Bill was a part of five pennant winning teams: 1907 (Sumter), 1910 (New Orleans), 1911 (Portland & New Orleans) and 1912 (Portland). After baseball, Lindsay went on to become a successful businessman back in his home state of North Carolina alongside his wife (Sadie) and daughter (Margaret). He died in 1963 at the age of 82.
William Henry Clarkson (September 27, 1898 – August 27, 1971), also known as "Blackie", was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Giants and Boston Braves . [ 1 ]
After winning a state baseball championship in 2022, Liberty North went back-to-back this spring. And this time around, the victory honored a fallen coach.