Bill Sayles

{{Short description|American baseball player (1917–1996)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Bill Sayles

|image=Bill Sayles.JPG

|position=Pitcher

|birth_date={{Birth date|1917|7|27}}

|birth_place=Portland, Oregon, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1996|11|20|1917|7|27}}

|death_place=Lincoln City, Oregon, U.S.

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 17

|debutyear=1939

|debutteam=Boston Red Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 28

|finalyear=1943

|finalteam=Brooklyn Dodgers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=1–3

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=5.61

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=52

|teams=

• Boston Red Sox ({{mlby|1939}})
• New York Giants ({{mlby|1943}})
• Brooklyn Dodgers ({{mlby|1943}})

}}

William Nisbeth Sayles (July 27, 1917 – November 20, 1996) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Boston Red Sox in the 1939 season, and for the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943. Born in Portland, Oregon, he also pitched in the 1936 Summer Olympics as part of the "World Champions" team.{{cite web|url=http://sonsofsamhorn.net/wiki/index.php/Bill_Sayles |title=Bill Sayles |accessdate=September 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907115056/http://sonsofsamhorn.net/wiki/index.php/Bill_Sayles |archivedate=September 7, 2008 }}{{Sabrbio|58bff33a|Bill Sayles|Maurice Bouchard|March 21, 2019}}

Sayles died at age 79 in Lincoln City, Oregon.