William Albert Anderson (January 25, 1913 – March 25, 1971) was an

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in the

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in the 1940s. A native of

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, Anderson played mostly with the New York Cubans from 1941 to 1946, and briefly with the Homestead Grays in 1943 and the

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in 1947. He also played with the

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of the Provincial League in 1953. Anderson died in

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in 1971 at age 58.

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