Bill Stewart (sports official)

William Joseph "Bill" Stewart (September 20, 1894 – February 14, 1964) was an American coach and sports official who was an ice hockey referee and coach, and also an umpire in Major League Baseball. In his first season as head coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, he led the team to a Stanley Cup championship in 1938, becoming the first U.S.-born coach to win.

Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Stewart grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and competed in baseball, hockey, track, and wrestling in high school. In 1913 he became a minor league baseball player with Worcester in the New England League, and in 1917 while with Montreal was the first International League player to enlist for World War I service, joining the Navy. After the war he was signed by the Chicago White Sox, but he suffered an arm injury falling down a flight of stairs while working as a census taker in Boston, and was unable to remain with the team in 1919. H e stayed in the minor leagues as a pitcher and manager (including in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1927) until 1930, when he became an umpire in the Eastern League, and later officiated in the International and New York–Pennsylvania Leagues.

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