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Bill Crowley

William Michael Crowley

Positions: Outfielder and Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 159 lb.

Born: April 8, 1857 in Philadelphia, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1875
Teams (by GP): Bisons/Beaneaters/RedStockings/Grays/Athletics/... 1875-1885

Final Game: October 10, 1885
Died: July 14, 1891 in Gloucester, NJ
Buried: New St. Mary Cemetery, Bellmawr, NJ
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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
1875 PHI NA 18 3B 4 15 6 6 3 0 .800 3.00 .764 3.68
1875 PHI NA 18 OF 4 13 11 0 2 0 .846 2.75 .818 1.88 0-4-0
1875 PHI NA 18 1B 1 5 5 0 0 1 1.000 5.00 .936 10.90
1877 LOU NL 20 OF 58 152 109 20 23 2 .849 2.22 .831 1.88 0-57-2
1877 LOU NL 20 C 2 9 8 1 0 0 1.000 4.50 .876 6.15 2
1877 LOU NL 20 SS 2 8 4 4 0 0 1.000 4.00 .865 4.60
1877 LOU NL 20 2B 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .865 6.40
1877 LOU NL 20 3B 1 4 1 1 2 0 .500 2.00 .840 3.70
1879 BUF NL 22 OF 43 94 62 14 18 4 .809 1.77 .838 1.89 3-1-39
1879 BUF NL 22 C 10 49 34 8 7 0 .857 4.20 .889 6.45 7
1879 BUF NL 22 1B 7 86 76 4 6 6 .930 11.43 .953 11.13
1879 BUF NL 22 2B 3 23 10 11 2 2 .913 7.00 .897 6.83
1880 BUF NL 23 OF 74 187 131 23 33 3 .824 2.08 .855 1.85 8-21-48
1880 BUF NL 23 C 22 113 73 23 17 0 .850 4.36 .894 6.88 31
1881 BSN NL 24 OF 72 167 130 17 20 5 .880 2.04 .871 2.06 0-47-26
1883 TOT MLB 26 OF 33 55 43 3 9 0 .836 1.39 .851 1.85 0-21-12
1883 PHA AA 26 OF 22 42 31 3 8 0 .810 1.55 .851 1.80 0-21-1
1883 PHA AA 26 1B 1 18 16 0 2 0 .889 16.00 .951 10.70
1883 CLV NL 26 OF 11 13 12 0 1 0 .923 1.09 .849 1.96 0-0-11
1884 BSN NL 27 OF 108 169 125 22 22 5 .870 1.36 .867 1.79 0-2-107
1885 BUF NL 28 OF 92 183 152 8 23 1 .874 1.74 .881 1.85 71-1-20
8 Seasons OF 484 1020 763 107 150 20 .853 1.80 .858 1.88 82-154-254
3 Seasons C 34 171 115 32 24 0 .860 4.32 .892 6.71 40
3 Seasons 1B 9 109 97 4 8 7 .927 11.22 .952 11.06
2 Seasons 3B 5 19 7 7 5 0 .737 2.80 .780 3.68
2 Seasons 2B 4 25 11 12 2 2 .920 5.75 .894 6.72
1 Season SS 2 8 4 4 0 0 1.000 4.00 .865 4.60
8 Seasons TOT 538 1352 997 166 189 29 .860 2.16 .870 2.40 82-154-254 40
Lg 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
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
1875 PHI NA 18 9 9 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 4 0 4 0
1877 LOU NL 20 61 61 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 57 2 58 0
1879 BUF NL 22 60 60 0 10 7 3 0 0 3 1 39 43 0
1880 BUF NL 23 85 85 0 22 0 0 0 0 8 21 48 74 0
1881 BSN NL 24 72 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 26 72 0
1883 PHA AA 26 23 23 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 21 1 22 0
1883 CLV NL 26 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0
1884 BSN NL 27 108 108 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 107 108 0
1885 BUF NL 28 92 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 71 1 20 92 0
8 Seasons 521 521 0 34 9 4 5 2 82 154 254 484 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

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  58 (4th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  109 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  20 (2nd)
1880 NL  23 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1877 NL  23 (3rd)
1880 NL  33 (2nd)
Career  150 (67th)

Youngest s c a p y
1875 NA  born 1857-04-08 (2nd)
1877 NL  born 1857-04-08 (4th)

                                         

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