William Joseph Skowron (December 18, 1930 – April 27, 2012), nicknamed "Moose", was an American professional baseball first baseman.

One day his grandfather gave the seven-year-old Skowron a haircut resembling that of Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini.

Skowron attended Weber High School in Chicago, then went to Purdue University in Indiana, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

After batting .270 with 23 home runs and with Joe Pepitone ready to succeed him as the starting first baseman, Skowron was traded from the Yankees to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Stan Williams at the Winter Meetings on November 26, 1962.

[7] Although he floundered against National League pitching the next season, batting just .203 in 237 at bats with four homers, he stunned his former team in the 1963 World Series, leading the Dodgers with a .385 average and a home run, as Los Angeles swept New York in four straight games.

As a result, Skowron become one of few players in MLB history to have won back-to-back Series championships with different teams.

He also scored the only run in game seven of the 1962 World Series against the San Francisco Giants, on a double play grounder by Tony Kubek.

[12] Skowron died at age 81 on April 27, 2012, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, of congestive heart failure following a long battle with lung cancer.