Bill McCorry

{{short description|American baseball player (1887-1973)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Bill McCorry

|image=Bill McCorry.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1887|7|9}}

|birth_place=Saranac, New York

|death_date={{death date and age|1973|3|22|1887|7|9}}

|death_place=Augusta, Georgia

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 17

|debutyear=1909

|debutteam=St. Louis Browns

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 29

|finalyear=1909

|finalteam=St. Louis Browns

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–2

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=9.00

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=10

|teams=

• St. Louis Browns ({{mlby|1909}})

}}

William Charles McCorry (July 9, 1887 – March 22, 1973) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Browns in {{mlby|1909}}. He had a long career as a player/manager in the minor leagues that lasted as late as 1942, including lengthy stints with the Albany Senators and Ogden Reds. He also served as traveling secretary for the New York Yankees and general manager of the Augusta Yankees.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xi5JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CYQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2637,2897155&dq=augusta-yankees&hl=en|title = Youngstown Vindicator - Google News Archive Search}}

In the late 1940s, McCorry also served as a scout. The Yankees sent him to Birmingham in 1949 to evaluate Willie Mays, but they passed on pursuing the prospect after McCorry complained that he "couldn't hit a curveball."{{cite book|last=Barra|first=Allen|title=Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age|year=2013|location=New York|publisher=Crown Archetype|isbn=978-0-307-71648-4|page=100}}