William Bestick was an American professional baseball player in the early 1870s. He appeared in four games with the

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, three of which as the catcher. In 14 at bats, he collected four

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for a .286 batting average. It is not known when or where he was born, nor when he died. Peter Morris, a baseball historian for SABR, claims that the only known man by this name that has been found, died on July 28, 1911, in New York, NY.

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