Bill Annan

{{short description|American baseball umpire and lawyer}}

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|birth_name = William Howard Annan

|birth_date = December 14, 1850

|birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky

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|disappeared_date = 1898

|occupation = Umpire

|years_active = 1873

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William Howard Annan (December 14, 1850 – unknown) was an American professional baseball umpire. Annan umpired one National Association game in 1873, between the Brooklyn Atlantics and the Boston Red Stockings (today's Atlanta Braves).{{cite web |url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/A/Pannaw901.htm |title=Bill Annan |website=Retrosheet |accessdate=August 24, 2017}}

Annan was also a minor league shortstop, played for Harvard University, and earned a law degree there. He was a lawyer in Baltimore from 1880 to 1885, studied at the University of Edinburgh, then moved to London and later New York City. He disappeared in 1898.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pELrjlXXKJ4C&pg=PA262 |title=Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide |first1=Peter |last1=Morris |first2=William J. |last2=Ryczek |first3=Jan |last3=Finkel |publisher=McFarland & Company |date=2012 |accessdate=August 24, 2017 |isbn=978-0786468430}}