{{short description|American baseball player}} {{distinguish|text=American blues musician Bill Sims}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Bill Simms | image =Bill Simms.jpeg | image_size = | position = Outfielder | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|12|23|mf=y}}<br/>Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|5|10|1908|12|23|mf=y}}<br/>Perris, California, U.S. | bats = Left | throws = Left | debutleague = Negro league baseball | debutdate = | debutyear = 1937 | debutteam = Cincinnati Tigers | finaldate = | finalyear = 1944 | finalteam = Atlanta Black Crackers | statyear = | statleague = | stat1label = | stat1value = | stat2label = | stat2value = | stat3label = | stat3value = | teams = *Cincinnati Tigers (1937) *Chicago American Giants (1937–1940) *Kansas City Monarchs (1937, 1941–1943) *Atlanta Black Crackers (1944) | highlights = }} '''Willie Simms''' (December 23, 1908 – May 10, 2002) was an American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues. He played from 1937 to 1944 with several teams.<ref name="Riley">{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. | title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile |url-access=registration |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}</ref>

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==External links== {{Baseballstats|mlb=817254|br=s/simmswi01}} and [https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=simms-000bil Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats] and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=simms01bil Seamheads] *[http://www.coe.ksu.edu/nlbemuseum/history/players/simms.html NLB Museum]

{{1942 Kansas City Monarchs}}

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