Bill Haywood
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1937 –
Who is Bill Haywood?
William Kiernan Haywood is an American former pitcher, coach, manager and farm system official in professional baseball. He was also a college baseball head coach. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 205 pounds.
After serving in the United States Marine Corps, Haywood enrolled in college at the relatively old age of 23, attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Signing his first pro contract at age 27, he played his entire professional career for the Washington Senators' organization and appeared in 14 Major League Baseball games for the 1968 Senators, for whom he worked in 23 innings and had an earned run average of 4.70. As a minor leaguer, he compiled a won/lost mark of 47–37 with an earned run average of 3.03 in 165 games.
In 1969 he became head baseball coach of Western Carolina University and later held the same position at Georgia Southwestern State University. He also served in professional baseball as a minor league coach and manager for the Senators/Texas Rangers franchise and as field coordinator and assistant player development director for the Seattle Mariners.
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