# Will Calihan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Will_Calihan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Will_Calihan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Calihan > Source revision: 1266176122 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American baseball player (1869–1917)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{no footnotes|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Will Calihan |position=[Pitcher](/source/Pitcher) |image=Will Calihan 1889.jpg |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date=May 1869 |birth_place=[Oswego, New York](/source/Oswego%2C_New_York), U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1917|12|20|1869|5}} |death_place=[Rochester, New York](/source/Rochester%2C_New_York), U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=April 17 |debutyear=1890 |debutteam=Rochester Broncos |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=June 20 |finalyear=1891 |finalteam=Philadelphia Athletics |statleague = MLB |stat1label=[Win–loss record](/source/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching)) |stat1value=24-21 |stat2label=[Strikeout](/source/Strikeout)s |stat2value=155 |stat3label=[Earned run average](/source/Earned_run_average) |stat3value=4.14 |teams= *[Rochester Broncos](/source/Rochester_Broncos) (1890) *[Philadelphia Athletics](/source/Philadelphia_Athletics_(1890%E2%80%9391)) (1891) }} '''William T. Calihan''' (May 1869 – December 20, 1917) was an American professional [baseball](/source/baseball) player. He played in [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball) as a right-handed [pitcher](/source/pitcher) and [outfielder](/source/outfielder) from {{mlby|1890}} to {{mlby|1891}}. He played for the [Rochester Broncos](/source/Rochester_Broncos) in 1890 and the [Philadelphia Athletics](/source/Philadelphia_Athletics_(1890%E2%80%9391)) in 1891, both of the [American Association](/source/American_Association_(19th_century)). ==Biography== Born in Oswego, Calihan had a brother named Tom who was a catcher in the minor leagues. In 1888, Calihan and his brother briefly formed a [battery](/source/battery_(baseball)) with Calihan's first professional baseball team, the minor-league Rochester Jingoes. Calihan had a 14–16 record with Rochester that year. The Rochester front office thought that Calihan drank excessively and presented behavioral issues. He ended up with the [Buffalo Bisons](/source/Buffalo_Bisons) during the 1889 season. It looked as if Calihan might join Buffalo's team that was forming in the [Players' League](/source/Players'_League) in 1890, but the team ultimately lost interest in Calihan. Instead, he entered the major leagues with the Rochester Broncos of the American Association that year. In one season with the Broncos, Calihan had an 18–15 win-loss record and appeared 12 times in the outfield. He spent his last major-league season (1891) with the Philadelphia Athletics, earning a 6–6 record in 13 games. In 50 games as a pitcher, his record was 24–21 with 42 [complete game](/source/complete_game)s in 47 starts and an [ERA](/source/earned_run_average) of 4.14. In 63 total [games played](/source/games_played) he batted .158 with one [home run](/source/home_run), 18 [RBI](/source/run_batted_in), and 22 [runs](/source/run_(baseball)) scored. Calihan remained in the minor leagues through 1898, mostly as an infielder. He married once, but his wife died in 1896 when he was playing in the minor leagues in Atlanta. Calihan died of [pneumonia](/source/pneumonia) at the age of 48 in [Rochester, New York](/source/Rochester%2C_New_York).{{cite book |last1=Nemec |first1=David |title=Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1: The Ballplayers Who Built the Game |date=2011 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=9780803230248 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3BUqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 |language=en}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/calihwi01.shtml Baseball Reference] * [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pcaliw101.htm Retrosheet] {{DEFAULTSORT:Calihan, Bill}} Category:19th-century baseball players Category:19th-century American sportsmen Category:Baseball players from Oswego County, New York Category:Major League Baseball pitchers Category:Major League Baseball outfielders Category:Rochester Broncos players Category:Philadelphia Athletics (AA 1891) players Category:1869 births Category:1917 deaths Category:People from Oswego, New York Category:Rochester Jingoes players Category:Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Category:Rochester Flour Cities players Category:Albany Senators players Category:Syracuse Stars (minor league baseball) players Category:Atlanta Crackers players Category:Rochester Blackbirds players Category:Canandaigua Rustlers players Category:Lancaster Maroons players Category:Atlanta Colts players --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Will Calihan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Calihan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Calihan?action=history)). 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