Autographs of Bill Greason
William Henry Greason (born September 3, 1924) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who years later became a Baptist minister in Birmingham, Alabama. Greason played for the Birmingham Black Barons in the Negro leagues from 1948 to 1951 and for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League in 1954.
Greason was born in Atlanta, where, as he told a 2020 interviewer, "I grew up across the street from Martin Luther King Jr." Greason enlisted in the United States Marine Corps during World War II—one of the first black Marines—and completed his basic training at Montford Point. He embarked with the 66th Supply Platoon, an all-black unit, for the Pacific Theater of Operations and took part in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Greason was a 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), 170 lb (77 kg) right-handed pitcher. After the war, he played professional baseball in the Negro leagues for the minor league Nashville Black Vols and Asheville Blues, and the major league Birmingham Black Barons, where he was a teammate of Willie Mays. According to Baseball Reference, Greason posted a 3–2 record in eight games pitched for the 1948 Black Barons, with four complete games, one shutout and one save, with an earned run average of 4.44. That season, in the last-ever Negro League World Series, he defeated the soon-to-be champion Homestead Grays to claim Birmingham's lone victory in the five-game series.
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Traded items with a signature of Bill Greason
The most expensive item with a signature of Bill Greason (BILL GREASON Signed 8x10 IWO JIMA Photo NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL AUTOGRAPH 1) was sold in January 2026 for £153.13 while the cheapest item (Bill Greason Birmingham Barons STL Cardinals Negro Leagues signed Baseball Photo) found a new owner for £30.72 in June 2026. The month with the most items sold (10) was June 2026 with an average selling price of £73.69 for an autographed item of Bill Greason. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2025 with £101.73 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £30.80 was March 2026. In average, an autographed item from Bill Greason is worth £73.69.
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