Bill Otis

{{short description|American baseball player (1889-1990)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Bill Otis

|position=Outfielder

|image=Bill Otis.jpg

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1889|12|24|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Scituate, Massachusetts, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1990|12|15|1889|12|24}}

|death_place=Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 4

|debutyear={{By|1912}}

|debutteam=New York Highlanders

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 6

|finalyear={{By|1912}}

|finalteam=New York Highlanders

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.059

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=2

|teams=

• New York Highlanders (1912)

}}

Paul Franklin "Bill" Otis (December 24, 1889 – December 15, 1990) was an American Major League Baseball player. Otis played for the New York Highlanders in the {{by|1912}} season. He was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, and died in Duluth, Minnesota.{{cite web|title = Bill Otis - Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com|work = Players|publisher = Baseball-Reference.com|year = 2012|url = https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/otisbi01.shtml|accessdate = 2012-05-20}} At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former major league player.