{{short description|American baseball player and coach (born 1950)}} {{for|the Australian footballer|Bill Fahey (footballer)}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Bill Fahey |position=Catcher |image=1986 San Francisco Giants Postcards Bill Fahey.jpg |caption= |bats=Left |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date and age|1950|6|14}} |birth_place=Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |death_date= |death_place= |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=September 26 |debutyear=1971 |debutteam=Washington Senators |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=July 31 |finalyear=1983 |finalteam=Detroit Tigers |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.241 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value=7 |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat3value=83 |teams= *Washington Senators / Texas Rangers (1971–1972, 1974–1977) *San Diego Padres (1979–1980) *Detroit Tigers (1981–1983) }} '''William Roger Fahey''' (FAY-hee) (born June 14, 1950) is an American former catcher in professional baseball who played for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ({{mlby|1971}}–{{mlby|1972}}, {{mlby|1974}}–{{mlby|1977}}), San Diego Padres ({{mlby|1979}}–{{mlby|1980}}) and Detroit Tigers ({{mlby|1981}}–{{mlby|1983}}). Fahey batted left-handed and threw right-handed. His son, Brandon, is an infielder who played with the Baltimore Orioles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brandon Fahey - MLB, Minor League, College Baseball Statistics |url=https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/20470/ |access-date=2025-11-17 |website=The Baseball Cube}}</ref>
==Biography== Fahey played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues as a backup catcher. He shared duties with Jim Sundberg in Texas, with Gene Tenace for San Diego and Lance Parrish in Detroit. His most productive season came in {{mlby|1979}} with the Padres, when he hit .287 with three home runs and 19 runs batted in in 73 games. The next season, he posted career-highs in games (93), runs (18), hits (62) and RBI (22). Fahey was a .241 hitter with seven home runs and 83 RBI in 383 career games.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bill Fahey - MLB, Minor League Baseball Statistics |url=https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/11247/ |access-date=2025-11-17 |website=The Baseball Cube}}</ref>
After his playing career ended, Fahey managed in the Detroit farm system and was a major league coach for the Tigers (1983) and San Francisco Giants (1986–91), serving as an aide to Roger Craig when Craig was the Tigers' pitching coach and then the Giants' manager. Fahey was nicknamed "Pooch".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/san-francisco-giants-1991-media-guide-c/page/n27/ |title=San Francisco Giants 1991 Media Guide |date=1991 |pages=27, 28}}</ref> The Giants fired Fahey after the 1991 season.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 3, 1991 |title=Sherry and Fahey Are Out |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/03/sports/sports-people-baseball-sherry-and-fahey-are-out.html |website=The New York Times}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Biography}} *List of second-generation Major League Baseball players
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Baseballstats |br=f/faheybi01 |fangraphs=1003897 |almanac=faheybi01}}
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