American baseball player, coach, manager (born 1916)

Billy Hitchcock

William Clyde Hitchcock was an American professional baseball infielder, coach, manager and scout. In Major League Baseball (MLB), he was primarily a third baseman, second baseman and shortstop who appeared in 703 games over nine years with five American League teams. After 18 years as a coach, manager, and scout he became an executive in Minor League Baseball, serving as president of the Double-A Southern League from 1971 to 1980. His older brother, Jimmy Hitchcock, played briefly for the 1938 Boston Bees.

Born

1916

July 31

Died

2006

Era

1910s

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Billy, in brief

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Key dates

1916 Born
2006 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-30 Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
781 The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first year of the Ten'o (天応) era).
1009 Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1201 Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos the Fat for the throne of Alexios III Angelos.

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The world in 1916

When Billy arrived

april 18 World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
april 24 Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
april 24 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
april 25 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 31

Bernard Nathanson 1926–2011 American physician and activist (born 1926) Emilia Fox 1974– English actress Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 1909– Austrian theorist and author (died 1999) Evgeni Malkin 1986– Russian ice hockey player Fred Quimby 1886–1965 American animation producer (died 1965) Hank Bauer 1922–2007 American baseball player and manager (born 1922) Hilary Putnam 1926–2016 American mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher (died 2016) Jean Dubuffet 1901–1985 French painter and sculptor (died 1985) John Searle 1932– American philosopher and academic (died 2025)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1916

Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar 1916–1991 Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (born 1916) Bill Durnan 1916–1972 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1972) C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962) 1916– Chick Hearn 1916–2002 American sportscaster (born 1916) Colin McCool 1916– Australian cricketer (died 1986) Deendayal Upadhyaya 1916– Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (died 1968) Dom Mintoff 1916–2012 Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1916) Don Tallon 1916–1984 Australian cricketer (died 1984) Dorothy Bliss 1916–1987 American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (born 1916)

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