Willie "Bill" Simms (December 23, 1908 – May 10, 2002) was an American

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 ...

outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to c ...

in the

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. He played from 1937 to 1944 with several teams.

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1908 births 2002 deaths Kansas City Monarchs players Atlanta Black Crackers players Chicago American Giants players Baseball players from Shreveport, Louisiana People from Perris, California 20th-century African-American sportspeople Baseball outfielders 21st-century African-American people {{Negro-league-baseball-outfielder-stub