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Bill Cissell

Chalmer William Cissell

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: January 3, 1904 in Perryville, MO(All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1928
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Indians/RedSox/Giants/Athletics 1928-1938

Final Game: September 25, 1938
Died: March 15, 1949 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Perryville, MO
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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 Awards
1928 CHW AL 24 SS 123 123 119 656 255 360 41 77 .938 5.00 .938 5.11 MVP-15
1929 CHW AL 25 SS 152 152 145 871 357 459 55 90 .937 5.37 .937 5.21
1930 CHW AL 26 2B 107 105 100 619 251 336 32 60 .948 5.49 .969 5.95
1930 CHW AL 26 3B 24 23 21 89 24 62 3 7 .966 3.58 .945 3.04
1930 CHW AL 26 SS 10 11 8 45 15 24 6 2 .867 3.90 .940 5.12
1931 CHW AL 27 SS 83 81 75 425 168 233 24 47 .944 4.83 .936 5.18
1931 CHW AL 27 2B 23 23 23 131 57 69 5 11 .962 5.48 .965 5.84
1931 CHW AL 27 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.10
1932 TOT AL 28 SS 18 14 12 83 43 34 6 10 .928 4.28 .941 5.15 MVP-11
1932 CHW AL 28 SS 12 12 10 69 40 24 5 9 .928 5.33 .941 5.15
1932 CLE AL 28 2B 129 128 124 834 329 475 30 82 .964 6.23 .968 5.92 MVP-11
1932 CLE AL 28 SS 6 2 2 14 3 10 1 1 .929 2.17 .941 5.15
1933 CLE AL 29 2B 62 64 62 376 151 205 20 24 .947 5.74 .971 5.99
1933 CLE AL 29 SS 46 38 34 241 87 146 8 23 .967 5.07 .942 5.34
1933 CLE AL 29 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.90
1934 BOS AL 30 2B 96 92 85 585 280 281 24 62 .959 5.84 .969 5.87
1934 BOS AL 30 SS 7 2 2 18 6 9 3 3 .833 2.14 .951 5.24
1934 BOS AL 30 3B 2 1 1 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 1.50 .943 3.10
1937 PHA AL 33 2B 33 33 33 210 87 115 8 17 .962 6.12 .972 5.64
1938 NYG NL 34 2B 33 32 31 219 87 127 5 20 .977 6.48 .969 5.74
1938 NYG NL 34 3B 6 4 4 16 3 11 2 0 .875 2.33 .945 3.03
7 Seasons 2B 483 477 458 2974 1242 1608 124 276 .958 5.90 .969 5.89
7 Seasons SS 439 421 395 2339 931 1265 143 252 .939 5.00 .938 5.19
5 Seasons 3B 34 28 26 108 28 75 5 7 .954 3.03 .945 3.04
9 Seasons TOT 956 926 879 5421 2201 2948 272 535 .950 5.39 .955 5.47
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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
1928 CHW AL 24 125 123 125 123 0 0 0 0 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1929 CHW AL 25 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1930 CHW AL 26 141 139 141 140 0 0 0 108 27 11 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1931 CHW AL 27 109 104 109 107 0 0 0 23 1 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1932 CLE AL 28 131 130 131 131 0 0 0 129 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 CHW AL 28 12 12 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1933 CLE AL 29 112 102 112 109 0 0 0 66 1 42 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1934 BOS AL 30 102 95 102 101 0 0 0 95 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1937 PHA AL 33 34 33 34 33 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1938 NYG NL 34 38 36 38 38 0 0 0 33 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 956 926 956 946 0 0 0 487 37 437 0 0 0 0 0 8 4
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

Hall of Fame
1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1928 AL (15, 6%)
1932 AL (11, 12%)
0.18 Career Shares (775th)

Assists† s c a p y
1929 AL  459 (5th)
1932 AL  509 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1928 AL  41 (5th)
1929 AL  55 (2nd)
1930 AL  41 (3rd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1932 AL  129 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1932 AL  329 (5th)
1934 AL  280 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1932 AL  475 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1930 AL  32 (1st)
1932 AL  30 (1st)
1933 AL  20 (4th)
1934 AL  24 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1929 AL  152 (1st)
1931 AL  83 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1928 AL  255 (5th)
1929 AL  357 (1st)
1931 AL  168 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1928 AL  360 (4th)
1929 AL  459 (1st)
1931 AL  233 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1928 AL  41 (4th)
1929 AL  55 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1932 AL  6.23 (1st)
1934 AL  5.84 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1928 AL  5.00 (4th)
1929 AL  5.37 (1st)
1931 AL  4.83 (4th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1928 AL  .938 (5th)
1931 AL  .944 (4th)

             

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