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Willie Clark

William Otis Clark (Wee Willie)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: August 16, 1872 in Pittsburgh, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: June 20, 1895
Teams (by GP): Giants/Pirates 1895-1899

Final Game: August 3, 1899
Died: November 13, 1932 in Pittsburgh, PA
Buried: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
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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 Awards
1895 NYG NL 22 1B 23 233 213 14 6 16 .974 9.87 .978 10.10
1896 NYG NL 23 1B 65 676 634 25 17 40 .975 10.14 .980 10.48
1897 NYG NL 24 1B 108 1133 1050 65 18 69 .984 10.32 .980 10.23
1897 NYG NL 24 OF 7 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 1.29 .936 2.09 7-0-0
1897 NYG NL 24 3B 1 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 3.00 .893 3.40
1898 PIT NL 25 1B 57 638 601 27 10 29 .984 11.02 .977 10.33
1899 PIT NL 26 1B 79 888 842 36 10 37 .989 11.11 .977 10.49
5 Seasons 1B 332 3568 3340 167 61 191 .983 10.56 .979 10.35
1 Season OF 7 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 1.29 .936 2.09 7-0-0
1 Season 3B 1 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 3.00 .893 3.40
5 Seasons TOT 340 3580 3349 170 61 191 .983 10.35 .978 10.16 7-0-0
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
1895 NYG NL 22 23 23 0 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1896 NYG NL 23 72 72 0 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1897 NYG NL 24 117 117 0 0 108 0 1 0 7 0 0 7 0
1898 PIT NL 25 57 57 0 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 PIT NL 26 81 81 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 350 350 0 0 332 0 1 0 7 0 0 7 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

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1897 NL  65 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1899 NL  11.11 (2nd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1897 NL  .984 (4th)
1899 NL  .989 (1st)

             

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