Bill Riggins

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| name = Bill Riggins

| image = Bill Riggins Baseball.jpg

| position = Shortstop

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|2|7|mf=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1943|3|8|1900|2|7|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Colp, Illinois, U.S.

| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| bats = Both

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1920

| debutteam = Chicago American Giants

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| finalyear = 1936

| finalteam = Miami Giants

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| baseball_ref = riggibi01

| teams = *Chicago American Giants (1920)

• Detroit Stars (1920–1926) [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdZWh3U1ZuTnFpbUE "Champion Monarchs Open Season With Victory" The Kansas City Advocate, Kansas City, Kansas, Friday, May 29, 1925, Page 3, Columns 1 to 5]
• Cleveland Hornets (1927)
• Homestead Grays (1927)
• New York Lincoln Giants (1928–1930)
• Harlem Stars (1931)
• New York Black Yankees (1932)
• Brooklyn Royal Giants (1932–1933)
• Miami Giants (1934–1936)

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Arvell "Bill" Riggins (February 7, 1900 – March 8, 1943) was an American baseball shortstop in the Negro leagues. He played from 1920 to 1936 with several teams, including the Detroit Stars from 1920 to 1926.{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |

title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}

Riggins joined the Detroit Stars at the forming of the Negro National League in 1920, and he stayed with the team until 1926.

Riggins died aged 43 in New York City. He is buried at the Beverly Hills Cemetery in Peekskill, New York.