William Theodore Stecher (October 20, 1869 – December 26, 1926) was a professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

player who played

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in the Major Leagues in for the

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