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style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><span class="note">Bill Posedel</span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Posedel_1940_Play_Ball_card.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Bill_Posedel_1940_Play_Ball_card.jpeg/220px-Bill_Posedel_1940_Play_Ball_card.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Bill_Posedel_1940_Play_Ball_card.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b><a href="/wiki/Pitcher" title="Pitcher">Pitcher</a></b></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Born:</b> <span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1906-08-02</span>)</span>August 2, 1906<br /><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Died:</b> November 28, 1989<span style="display:none">(1989-11-28)</span> (aged 83)<br /><a href="/wiki/Livermore,_California" title="Livermore, California">Livermore, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-baseball-bio-batsthrows"><div><b>Batted:</b> Right</div><div><b>Threw:</b> Right</div></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB debut</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">April 23, 1938, for the Brooklyn Dodgers</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Last MLB appearance</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">September 13, 1946, for the Boston Braves</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching)" title="Win–loss record (pitching)">Win–loss record</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">41–43</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">Earned run average</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">4.56</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">Strikeouts</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">227</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/posedbi01.shtml">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Reference" title="Baseball Reference">Baseball Reference</a></b> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4910528#P1825" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Teams</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-teams"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1938_in_baseball" title="1938 in baseball">1938</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Bees" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Bees">Boston Bees</a> / <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Braves</a> (<a href="/wiki/1939_in_baseball" title="1939 in baseball">1939</a>–<a href="/wiki/1941_in_baseball" title="1941 in baseball">1941</a>, <a href="/wiki/1946_in_baseball" title="1946 in baseball">1946</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William John Posedel</b> (August 2, 1906 – November 28, 1989), nicknamed "<b>Barnacle Bill</b>",<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American right-handed <a href="/wiki/Pitcher" title="Pitcher">pitcher</a> in <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> who played for the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Bees" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Bees">Boston Bees</a>/<a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Braves</a> in 1938–1941 and in 1946. </p><p>Posedel was born in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a>. He began his <a href="/wiki/Professional_baseball" title="Professional baseball">professional baseball</a> career in 1929, pitching for the <a href="/wiki/Portland_Beavers" title="Portland Beavers">Portland Beavers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Coast_League" title="Pacific Coast League">Pacific Coast League</a>. He would spend all or parts of six seasons pitching for Portland, and twice (in 1936 and 1937) win 20-plus games for the Beavers. Posedel's extended service in the PCL resulted in his late Major League debut, at age 31, for the 1938 Dodgers. </p><p>In his finest MLB campaign, 1939 with the Boston "Bees" (then the Braves' official nickname), Posedel <a href="/wiki/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching)" title="Win–loss record (pitching)">won</a> 15 of 28 <a href="/wiki/Decision_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Decision (baseball)">decisions</a>, including five <a href="/wiki/Shutout_(baseball)" title="Shutout (baseball)">shutouts</a>, for a seventh-place team that claimed only 63 victories all season. All told, Posedel allowed 747 <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a> and 248 <a href="/wiki/Bases_on_balls" class="mw-redirect" title="Bases on balls">bases on balls</a> in 679<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">3</span></span> <a href="/wiki/Inning_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Inning (baseball)">innings</a> of work in the Majors. He <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">struck out</a> 227. </p><p>After his playing career, Posedel was a <a href="/wiki/Coach_(baseball)" title="Coach (baseball)">pitching coach</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> (1949–1953), <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> (1954–1957), <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> (1958), <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> (1959–1960), <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> (1968–1972) and <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego Padres</a> (1974). He also worked as a <a href="/wiki/Scout_(sports)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scout (sports)">scout</a> for the Pirates (1948), <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> (1961) and <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a> (1962–1967), and managed the 1957 Beavers from April 29 through the end of the season. </p><p>Posedel served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> from 1925 to 1929 and again during World War II, from 1942 to 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died in <a href="/wiki/Livermore,_California" title="Livermore, California">Livermore, California</a>, at age 83. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 4,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sabr.org&rft.atitle=Bill+Posedel&rft.aulast=Wolf&rft.aufirst=Gregory+H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsabr.org%2Fbioproj%2Fperson%2Fbill-posedel%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Posedel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/posedel_bill.htm">"Baseball in Wartime – Bill Posedel"</a>. <i>BaseballinWartime.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 4,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BaseballinWartime.com&rft.atitle=Baseball+in+Wartime+%E2%80%93+Bill+Posedel&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbaseballinwartime.com%2Fplayer_biographies%2Fposedel_bill.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Posedel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Posedel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Career statistics from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mlb.com/player/120694">MLB</a>, or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/posedbi01.shtml">Baseball Reference</a>, or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=posede001wil">Baseball Reference (Minors)</a>, or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pposeb102.htm">Retrosheet</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Burwell" title="Bill Burwell">Bill Burwell</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> <a href="/wiki/Coach_(baseball)" title="Coach (baseball)">pitching coach</a> </b><br />1949–1953 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">n/a</div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">n/a</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> <a href="/wiki/Coach_(baseball)" title="Coach (baseball)">pitching coach</a> </b><br />1956–1957 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Al_Hollingsworth_(baseball)" title="Al Hollingsworth (baseball)">Al Hollingsworth</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Carswell" title="Frank Carswell">Frank Carswell</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Portland_Beavers" title="Portland Beavers">Portland Beavers</a> <a href="/wiki/Manager_(baseball)" title="Manager (baseball)">manager</a> </b><br />1957<br /><small>April 29 – September 15</small> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Heath_(baseball)" title="Tommy Heath (baseball)">Tommy Heath</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Whit_Wyatt" title="Whit Wyatt">Whit Wyatt</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> <a href="/wiki/Coach_(baseball)" title="Coach (baseball)">pitching coach</a> </b><br />1958 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Ferrick_(baseball)" title="Tom Ferrick (baseball)">Tom Ferrick</a></div> </td></tr> <tr 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