William John Posedel (August 2, 1906 – November 28, 1989), nicknamed "Barnacle Bill", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves in 1938–41 and in 1946.\n', '

Posedel was born in San Francisco, California. He began his professional baseball career in 1929, pitching for the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. He would spend all or parts of six seasons pitching for Portland, and twice (in 1936 and 1937) win 20-plus games for the Beavers. Posedel\'s extended service in the PCL resulted in his late Major League debut, at age 31, for the 1938 Dodgers.\n', '

In his finest MLB campaign, 1939 with the Boston "Bees" (then the Braves\' official nickname), Posedel won 15 of 28 decisions, including five shutouts, for a seventh-place team that claimed only 63 victories all season. All told, Posedel allowed 747 hits and 248 bases on balls in 679​1⁄3 innings of work in the Majors. He struck out 227.\n', '

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