Bill Massey (baseball)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1871–1940)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Bill Massey

|position=First baseman

|image=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date=January 1871

|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

|death_date={{death date and age|1940|10|9|1871|1}}

|death_place=Manila, Philippines

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 8

|debutyear=1894

|debutteam=Cincinnati Reds

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 30

|finalyear=1894

|finalteam=Cincinnati Reds

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.283

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=5

|teams=

• Cincinnati Reds (1894)

}}

William Henry Massey (1871–1940), was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds. He played in 13 games for the 1894 Reds during September, 1894. His minor league playing career lasted through 1909, during which he would win at least one pennant, the 1907 championship of the Connecticut League, while playing for the Holyoke Papermakers.{{cite news|title=Burkett in Row with Umpire|work=Springfield Republican|page=3|date=April 25, 1907|location=Springfield, Mass.}}{{cite book|title=Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for 1905|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/spaldingsbasebal09chic/page/164|chapter=Connecticut League|page=165|year=1905|publisher=A. G. Spalding & Bros.|location=Chicago}}