William E. Niles (January 11, 1867 – July 3, 1936) was a
Major League Baseball
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player. Niles played for
Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central ...
in the
1895
Events January
* January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...
season. He played just eleven games in his career, having eight hits in 37 at-bats, a .216 batting average.
Niles was born in
Covington, Kentucky
Covington is a list of cities in Kentucky, home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Ohio River, Ohio and Licking River (Kentucky), Licking rivers, across from Cincinnati to the north ...
, and died in
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield is a city in Clark County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is located in southwestern Ohio along the Mad River (Ohio), Mad River, Buck Creek, and Beaver Creek, about west of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus and northeast of ...
.
External links
Baseball-Reference.com page
Pittsburgh Pirates players
1867 births
1936 deaths
Baseball players from Covington, Kentucky
19th-century baseball players
19th-century American sportsmen
Dayton Reds players
Hamilton (minor league baseball) players
McKeesport (minor league baseball) players
Meadville (minor league baseball) players
Birmingham Grays players
Birmingham Blues players
Pensacola (minor league baseball) players
Kansas City Cowboys (minor league) players
Franklin Braves players
Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players
Grand Rapids Rippers players
Grand Rapids Gold Bugs players
Springfield Governors players
Wheeling Stogies players
Sioux City Cornhuskers players
Columbus Senators players
Anderson Anders players
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