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Bill Clancy

Major League Baseball first baseman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4908478 ↗
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William Edward Clancy (April 12, 1879 – February 10, 1948) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1905. Though he played only one season in the Majors, he spent 11 seasons in the minors, including four with Rochester, and also managed in the minors.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Clancy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.