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5 unusual facts about Bill Weiss


Bill Weiss

In 1998, Weiss and fellow historian Marshall Wright were chosen to select The National Baseball Association's top 100 minor league teams.

From 1959 to 1984, he was president of a San Francisco Bay Area amateur league, the Peninsula Winter League, which helped local players, such as Baseball Hall of Famers Willie Stargell and Joe Morgan, to develop their skills.

Fresno Giants

In 1955, the Cardinals fielded one of the best teams in the history of minor league baseball, ranked the 79th best minor league team of all time by baseball historians Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright.

Marshall Wright

In 1998, Wright and fellow baseball historian Bill Weiss were chosen by minor league baseball to choose the The National Baseball Association's top 100 minor league teams.

The National Baseball Association's top 100 minor league teams

In 2001, during the celebration of the centennial of the National Baseball Association, Minor League Baseball commissioned baseball historians Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright to develop a list of the 100 best minor-league baseball teams of all time.



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