About Bill Rollinson
Lived 1856 – 1938 (aged 82). Bill Rollinson was an American baseball player.
Bill Rollinson was an alias used by William Henry Winslow (June 10, 1856 – September 28, 1938), an American Major League Baseball catcher who played in one game on June 17, 1884, for the Washington Nationals of the Union Association.
Baseball Winslow played catcher for the Brown Bears baseball team in 1879 and 1880 and was captain of the team the latter season. He also appeared in four games for the Worcester Grays of the National Association during the 1879 season.
Education After graduating from Brown, Winslow spent five years as a high school principal in Adams, Massachusetts. After a year as a supervising principal in Orange, New Jersey, Winslow spent five and a half years as superintendent of schools in Bath, Maine. From 1901 held the same position in Revere, Massachusetts. On December 1, 1908, he began teaching pedagogy cources to normal school students at the Southern University at New Orleans. He spent the 1909–10 school year as superintendent of schools in Contoocook, New Hampshire. On June 29, 1910, he was named superintendent of schools in Cumberland, Rhode Island. In 1916, he became principal of the junior high school in Brooksville, Florida.
Personal life In October 1880, Winslow married Esther Fisk in Providence, Rhode Island. They had four children. Esther Winslow died in 1899. On April 19, 1909, he married Bessie Lee of Overall, Virginia. They had five children. Winslow was a freemason and a Quaker. He died on September 28, 1938, at his home near Bristow, Virginia.
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Who was Bill Rollinson?
American baseball player
When was Bill Rollinson born?
Bill Rollinson was born on 10 June 1856 in Fairfield.
When did Bill Rollinson die?
Bill Rollinson died on 28 September 1938 in Bristow.
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Bill Rollinson was a baseball player.
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Bill Rollinson was American.
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