After graduating from McMinnville High School in McMinnville, Oregon, Krueger began classes at the University of Portland on a basketball scholarship, where he was teammates with Darwin Cook. He began pitching for the Pilots\' baseball team in his junior year in 1979. In 1980, Krueger was signed by the Oakland Athletics on July 12 as an undrafted amateur free agent and assigned to the Medford A\'s of the short-season single-A Northwest League. Although he went winless for Medford in seven starts that year, he struck out 48 batters, recorded a complete game, and a save. He continued to make his way through the A\'s minor league system for the next two years, being called up to Double-A West Haven in 1981.\n', '

Krueger made his major league debut on April 10, 1983, as the A\'s starter for the sixth game of the season. Facing the California Angels, Krueger pitched 7 innings and gave up 4 runs in the Oakland Coliseum. Although Angels Brian Downing singled against him to lead off the game, Krueger got veteran right fielder Juan Beníquez to hit into a 4-6-3 double play. Bill went 7-6 in 16 starts for the A\'s in 1983, and spent the next 3 years bouncing from the A\'s to Triple-A Tacoma to Single-A Madison. During his five major league stints in Oakland (and before being traded to the Dodgers midway through the 1987 season, Bill posted a 27-31 record with a 5.69 ERA.\n', '

Bill saw action in only 3 games in two seasons for the Dodgers, and was traded again to the Pittsburgh Pirates in late 1988. The Pirates released him during spring training 6 months afterward, and Bill signed with the Milwaukee Brewers 10 days later. He played in Milwaukee for only two seasons, and was signed as a free agent by the Seattle Mariners after the end of the 1990 season.\n', '

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