Bill Pierre

William Pierre

• Born 1890 USA
• Died 1973 USA

Biographical Information

Bill Pierre was a minor league position player until 1929, playing for the Buffalo Bisons in the International League(1922), Greensboro in the Piedmont League (1923), the Durham Bulls in the Piedmont League (1924), Alexandria in the Cotton States League (1926-1927), Montgomery in the Southeastern League (1927-1928) and Baton Rouge in the Cotton States League (1929).

Scouting for the New York Giants , Brooklyn Dodgers , Detroit Tigers , St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees (1927-1959), he discovered and/or signed players such as Ray Berres , Ben Chapman , Le Grant Scott , Walt Streuli , Abe White , Dixie Walker , Whitey Lockman , Frank House , Frank Lary , Frank Bolling , Coot Veal , Bobo Osborne and Don Bryant.

Year-by-Year Managerial Record

Year	Team	League	Record	Finish	Playoffs
1917	Anniston Moulders	Georgia-Alabama League	13-5	1st	League disbanded May 23
1919	Lakeland Highlanders	Florida State League		--	--	replaced by Hugh Wicker 7/14
	Augusta Dollies	South Atlantic League		--	none	replaced Fred DeWitt in May replaced by Dolly Stark in June
1920	High Point Furniture Makers	Piedmont League		3rd		replaced Dick Miller in July
1921	High Point Furniture Makers	Piedmont League	65-55	2nd	Lost League Finals
1924	Durham Bulls	Piedmont League	74-46	1st	none
1925	Jackson Senators	Cotton States League	12-9	--	--	replaced by Fred Heck (56-45)on May 13
1926	Alexandria Reds	Cotton States League	64-65	4th	none
1927	Alexandria Reds	Cotton States League		--	--	replaced by Sam Barnes 5/16
	Montgomery Lions	Southeastern League	50-33	2nd	none	replaced Nig Leonard (36-34) on June 30
1928	Montgomery Lions	Southeastern League	91-57	2nd	League Champs
1929	Baton Rouge Essos	Cotton States League		5th		replaced Dee Cousineau 6/9
1930	Huntsville Springers	Georgia-Alabama League		--	--	replaced by Erskine Thompson 5/28
1935	Birmingham Barons	Southern Association		--	--	replaced Clyde Milan June 6 replaced by Bill Hughes

Sources

Principal sources for Bill Pierre include newspaper obituaries (OB), government records (VA,CM,CW), Sporting Life (SL), Baseball Digest, The Sporting News (TSN), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs (none) (WW), old Baseball Registers (none) (BR), TSN's Daguerreotypes (none) (DAG), The Historical Register, The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase(PD), The Baseball Library (BL); various Encyclopediae including The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball by Turkin & Thompson (T&T), MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia (Mac), Total Baseball (TB), The Bill James Historical Abstract (BJ) and The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (LJ); Retrosheet (RS), The Baseball Chronology (BC), Baseball Page (BP), The Baseball Almanac (BA), Baseball Cube (B3), including the SABR Encyclopedia and obituaries at deadballera.com (DBE) as well as research by Reed Howard (RH), Pat Doyle (PD) and Frank Hamilton (FH)..