Bill Voss

{{Short description|American baseball player (1943–2023)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Bill Voss

|position=Outfielder

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{birth date|1943|10|31}}

|birth_place=Glendale, California, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|2023|12|28|1943|10|31}}

|death_place=

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 14

|debutyear=1965

|debutteam=Chicago White Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 23

|finalyear=1972

|finalteam=Oakland Athletics

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.227

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=19

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=127

|teams=

• Chicago White Sox ({{Baseball year|1965}}–{{Baseball year|1968}})
• California Angels ({{Baseball year|1969}}–{{Baseball year|1970}})
• Milwaukee Brewers ({{Baseball year|1971}}–{{Baseball year|1972}})
• St. Louis Cardinals ({{Baseball year|1972}})
• Oakland Athletics ({{Baseball year|1972}})

|highlights=

}}

William Edward Voss (October 31, 1943 – December 28, 2023) was an American professional baseball player who played eight seasons for the Chicago White Sox, California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, and Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball. He was traded from the Cardinals to the Cincinnati Reds for Pat Jacquez at the Winter Meetings on November 27, 1972.[https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/28/archives/mets-send-agee-to-the-astros-for-pair-yanks-trade-four-to-get-graig.html Durso, Joseph. "Mets Send Agee to the Astros for Pair; Yanks Trade Four to Get Graig Nettles," The New York Times, Tuesday, November 28, 1972.] Retrieved October 24, 2020

Voss graduated from Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, CA. in 1961. He then attended Orange Coast College for two years, and then attended Long Beach State College. He was signed as an amateur free agent by the Detroit Tigers in 1963 and then drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the first Major League Baseball draft in 1964.

Voss died on December 28, 2023, at the age of 80.{{cite web |title=Bill Voss Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=vossbi01 |website=Baseball Almanac |access-date=January 26, 2024}}