Volume 15 , Issue 19

Grandpa Baseball Legacy 1904-1909

Wm. J. "Bill" McGill played baseball from 1904 to 1909. He started in Alva, OK and continued to Friends University and then on the the Southwest League in 1906 to play for the Austin Senators. From there he was sold for $500 in 1907 and moved up to the Major American League with the St. Louis Browns.



Grandpa had a fast south paw pitch and pitched many no hitter games. He married in 1910 March to Constance Warwick and moved back to Alva, Oklahoma. Grandpa Bill "Parsons" McGill, minor pitching began in 1905, at age 25 Minneapolis, Kansas. In 1906, he pitched in the Southwest Texas League with the Austin Senators. His baseball legacy continued through 1907 with a season with the St. Louis Browns of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1908 he was pitching for Enid and Guthrie in the Western Association, in Oklahoma, until 1909.

The Austin Senators were a charter member of the Texas League in 1887. They were frequently members of the Texas League from that point through 1914. Additionally, they played in the Texas-Southern League in 1896 and the South Texas League in 1906.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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