Bill Steinecke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1907
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 20-Jul-1986
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Bill Steinecke
- William Robert Steinecke (February 7, 1907 – July 20, 1986) was an American professional baseball catcher and manager.
- A native of Cincinnati who attended DePaul University, Steinecke spent almost 40 years in uniform, but only four games in Major League Baseball (with the 1931 Pittsburgh Pirates).
- He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) (173 cm) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg) as an active player. Steinecke's playing career began in 1925 with the Rock Island Islanders of the Class D Mississippi Valley League.
- After batting .361 for the Binghamton Triplets of the Class B New York–Pennsylvania League — and being elected the loop's all-star catcher for 1931 — Steinecke received his Pittsburgh trial.
- In four games and four at bats between September 16 and September 24, 1931, he went hitless.
- By the opening of the 1932 season, he was back at Binghamton.
- Steinecke achieved his most sustained success in the New York–Penn League of the 1930s (now the Eastern League), batting over .300 in six different seasons.
- In his best campaign, 1936 for the Williamsport Grays, Steinecke batted .349 with 110 runs batted in in 132 games played.
- All told, he appeared in 1,907 minor league games over 21 different seasons, batting .297 with 57 home runs and 855 RBI. Steinecke's long minor-league managerial career began in 1937 in the Class B Sally League, and from 1946 to 1964 he skippered clubs in the lower minors.
- He joined the Milwaukee Braves farm system in 1955 and continued with the Braves through the middle of 1964.
- (As manager of the Class D McCook Braves of the Nebraska State League, he was a figure in former bonus-baby pitcher Pat Jordan's memoir, A False Spring.) He then served as a scout for the Braves and Montreal Expos.
- Steinecke died at age 79 in Saint Augustine, Florida.
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