Grant Gillis

{{Short description|American baseball player (1901–1981)}}

{{Use American English|date=April 2022}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Grant Gillis

|position=Infielder

|image_size=150

|image=Grant Gillis.jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1901|1|24}}

|birth_place=Grove Hill, Alabama, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1981|2|4|1901|1|24}}

|death_place=Thomasville, Alabama, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 19

|debutyear=1927

|debutteam=Washington Senators

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 25

|finalyear=1929

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.245

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=23

|teams=

• Washington Senators ({{mlby|1927}}–{{mlby|1928}})
• Boston Red Sox ({{mlby|1929}})

|caption=Gillis with Alabama in 1925}}

Grant Gillis (January 24, 1901 – February 4, 1981) was a utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1927 through 1929 for the Washington Senators (1927–28) and Boston Red Sox (1929). Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=10}}, 165 lb., Gillis batted and threw right-handed. A native of Grove Hill, Alabama,{{baseballstats | br=g/gilligr01 }} he was signed by Washington out of the University of Alabama. At Alabama he was the first quarterback under Wallace Wade.

In a three-season career, Gillis was a .245 hitter (48-for-196) with 10 RBI and 26 runs in 62 games, including 12 doubles and two triples. He did not hit a home run. As an infielder, he made 59 appearances at second base (30), shortstop (26) and third base (3).

Gillis died in Thomasville, Alabama, at age 80.