finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1910 right 8 april 1940 st. louis , missouri st. louis , missouri 1906 june 2 .242 1 76 first baseman st. louis browns batting average home runs runs batted in september 25 2 february 1883 bill abstein.jpg bill abstein
 pittsburgh pirates bill abstein right
bill abstein

william henry abstein -lrb- february 2 , 1883 -- april 8 , 1940 -rrb- , nicknamed `` big bill '' , was a professional baseball and amateur soccer player .
he played all or part of three seasons in major league baseball player , from 1906 to 1910 , primarily as a first baseman .
he played for the pittsburgh pirates and st. louis browns .
abstein spent the 1904-05 st. louis association foot ball league season with diel f.c. which was managed by thomas cahill .
he later played for memphis chicks in the southern league .
during those years , he also played soccer as a midfielder for st. leo 's in the st. louis soccer league during the off-season .
