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Billy Barnie

William Harrison Barnie (Bald Billy)

Positions: Catcher and Rightfielder
Bats: Unknown, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 157 lb.

Born: January 26, 1853 in New York, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: May 7, 1874
Teams (by GP): DarkBlues/Orioles/Westerns/Mutuals 1874-1886

Final Game: June 28, 1886
Died: July 15, 1900 in Hartford, CT
Buried: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1874 HAR NA 21 C 30 176 111 18 47 0 .733 4.30 .801 5.48 33
1874 HAR NA 21 OF 29 50 26 5 19 2 .620 1.07 .802 2.02 0-4-25
1874 HAR NA 21 SS 1 2 0 0 2 0 .000 0.00 .785 4.70
1875 TOT NA 22 OF 10 21 18 0 3 0 .857 1.80 .818 1.88 0-4-6
1875 TOT NA 22 C 9 64 42 10 12 0 .813 5.78 .823 5.71 29
1875 WES NA 22 OF 7 18 16 0 2 0 .889 2.29 .818 1.89 0-3-4
1875 WES NA 22 C 3 28 21 4 3 0 .893 8.33 .823 5.70 16
1875 NYU NA 22 C 6 36 21 6 9 0 .750 4.50 .823 5.72 13
1875 NYU NA 22 OF 3 3 2 0 1 0 .667 0.67 .817 1.87 0-1-2
1883 BAL AA 30 C 13 104 67 21 16 2 .846 6.77 .890 6.68 33
1883 BAL AA 30 OF 6 5 4 0 1 0 .800 0.67 .852 1.80 0-0-6
1883 BAL AA 30 SS 1 3 0 2 1 0 .667 2.00 .837 3.90
1886 BAL AA 33 C 1 8 5 2 1 0 .875 7.00 .910 7.20 3
1886 BAL AA 33 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.80 0-1-0
4 Seasons C 53 352 225 51 76 2 .784 5.21 .834 5.85 98
4 Seasons OF 46 76 48 5 23 2 .697 1.15 .810 1.96 0-9-37
2 Seasons SS 2 5 0 2 3 0 .400 1.00 .816 4.30
4 Seasons TOT 101 433 273 58 102 4 .764 3.28 .829 4.04 0-9-37 98
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1874 HAR NA 21 45 45 0 30 0 0 0 1 0 4 25 29 0
1875 WES NA 22 10 10 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 0
1875 NYU NA 22 9 9 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0
1883 BAL AA 30 17 17 0 13 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 6 0
1886 BAL AA 33 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
4 Seasons 83 83 0 53 0 0 0 2 0 9 37 46 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Passed Balls s c a p y
1874 NA  33 (2nd)

                                         

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