Billy Barnie

{{Short description|American baseball player and manager (1853–1900)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|image=Barniecard.jpg

|name=Billy Barnie

|position=Manager/Catcher/Right fielder

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1853|1|26}}

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

|death_date={{death date and age|1900|7|15|1853|1|26}}

|death_place=Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 7

|debutyear=1874

|debutteam=Hartford Dark Blues

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 28

|finalyear=1886

|finalteam=Baltimore Orioles

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.171

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs Batted In

|stat3value=23

|teams=

;As player

• Hartford Dark Blues ({{Baseball year|1874}})
• Keokuk Westerns ({{Baseball year|1875}})
• New York Mutuals ({{Baseball year|1875}})
• Baltimore Orioles ({{Baseball year|1883}}, {{Baseball year|1886}})

;As manager

• Baltimore Orioles ({{Baseball year|1883}}–{{Baseball year|1891}})
• Washington Senators ({{Baseball year|1892}})
• Louisville Colonels ({{Baseball year|1893}}–{{Baseball year|1894}})
• Brooklyn Bridegrooms ({{Baseball year|1897}}–{{Baseball year|1898}})

|highlights=

}}

William Harrison Barnie (January 26, 1853 – July 15, 1900), nicknamed "Bald Billy", was an American manager and catcher in Major League Baseball. Born in New York City, he played as a right fielder in the National Association in 1874–75. In 1883 he became manager of the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association; he appeared as a backup catcher that season, and also played two games in 1886, but otherwise did not take the field. After leaving the Orioles following the 1891 season, he managed the Washington Senators (1892), Louisville Colonels (1893–94) and Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1897–98). His career managerial record consists of 632 wins and 810 losses. His best finish was third place with the 1887 Orioles.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/barnibi01.shtml Baseball Reference manager page]

Barnie died in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 47, of pneumonia complicated by asthmatic bronchitis,[http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html The Dead Ball Era] and was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=barnibi01 Baseball Almanac]