Billy Geer
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". William H. Geer[1] (died September 30, 1928),[1] was an American Major League Baseball player who played most of his career as a shortstop for five seasons and a total of seven teams. He is most notable for his status as possibly the youngest player in Major League history.
Career
Geer made his professional baseball debut for the New York Mutuals of the National Association. The following season, while playing for the New Haven Elm Citys, he was arrested along with his roommate, Henry Luff, for burglary of several hotel rooms.[2]
Age controversy
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". At age 15 years 63 days, he is credited as the youngest player to ever appear in a Major League Baseball game. There is controversy about his age, or the fact that the National Association has not been officially credited as a "major league". Assuming the veracity of his date of birth, he didn't actually make his Major League debut until the age of 18 years, 3 months, when he played for the Cincinnati Reds of the National League in 1878.
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- Date of birth missing
- Major League Baseball shortstops
- New York Mutuals players
- New Haven Elm Citys players
- Cincinnati Reds (1876–1879) players
- Worcester Worcesters players
- Philadelphia Keystones players
- Brooklyn Atlantics (AA) players
- Louisville Colonels players
- Syracuse Stars (minor league baseball) players
- Brooklyn Grays (Interstate Association) players
- Muskegon (minor league baseball) players
- Hartford Babies players
- 1928 deaths