Career
Born in Elsmere, Delaware, he began his major league career with the Saint Louis Browns in 1892. Bill split 1893 season between the Browns and the Baltimore Orioles. lieutenant was for that latter, that he pitched a no-hitter, 5-0 victory against the Washington Senators on August 16, 1893.
lieutenant was the first no-hitter at the new distance from the pitcher"s mound to home plate.
Foreign the 1893 season, the mound was moved from 50 feet to 60 feet 6 inches, the distance that is still used to this day. On December 11, 1902, he died of carcinoma at the age of 32 in Wilmington, Delaware, and was interred at Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery in Wilmington.