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Willie Kamm

William Edward Kamm

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 2, 1900 in San Francisco, CA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1923
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Indians 1923-1935

Final Game: May 21, 1935
Died: December 21, 1988 in Belmont, CA
Buried: Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
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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
1923 CHW AL 23 3B 149 149 149 547 173 352 22 29 .960 3.52 .945 3.45
1924 CHW AL 24 3B 146 146 145 517 190 312 15 31 .971 3.44 .951 3.26
1925 CHW AL 25 3B 152 152 150 514 182 310 22 32 .957 3.24 .947 3.21 MVP-12
1926 CHW AL 26 3B 142 139 137 511 177 323 11 16 .978 3.52 .951 3.37
1927 CHW AL 27 3B 146 145 139 530 236 279 15 21 .972 3.53 .952 3.33
1928 CHW AL 28 3B 155 155 151 533 243 278 12 33 .977 3.36 .951 3.27 MVP-5
1929 CHW AL 29 3B 145 144 143 502 221 270 11 27 .978 3.39 .952 3.10
1930 CHW AL 30 3B 106 95 86 374 142 209 23 17 .939 3.31 .945 3.04
1931 TOT AL 31 3B 132 130 124 421 158 240 23 33 .945 3.02 .944 3.08
1931 CHW AL 31 3B 18 17 15 65 29 32 4 4 .938 3.39 .944 3.08
1931 CLE AL 31 3B 114 113 109 356 129 208 19 29 .947 2.96 .944 3.08
1932 CLE AL 32 3B 148 146 141 479 164 299 16 20 .967 3.13 .950 2.96
1933 CLE AL 33 3B 131 129 116 380 153 221 6 16 .984 2.85 .954 2.92 MVP-21
1934 CLE AL 34 3B 118 112 104 365 109 248 8 24 .978 3.03 .943 3.09
1935 CLE AL 35 3B 4 4 4 8 3 4 1 0 .875 1.75 .948 3.05
13 Seasons 3B 1674 1646 1589 5681 2151 3345 185 299 .967 3.28 .949 3.18
13 Seasons TOT 1674 1646 1589 5681 2151 3345 185 299 .967 3.28 .949 3.18
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
1923 CHW AL 23 149 149 149 149 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1924 CHW AL 24 148 146 148 147 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1925 CHW AL 25 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1926 CHW AL 26 143 139 143 142 0 0 0 0 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1927 CHW AL 27 148 145 148 146 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1928 CHW AL 28 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1929 CHW AL 29 147 144 147 146 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1930 CHW AL 30 111 95 111 105 0 0 0 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1931 CLE AL 31 114 113 114 114 0 0 0 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1931 CHW AL 31 18 17 18 18 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 CLE AL 32 148 146 148 148 0 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1933 CLE AL 33 133 129 133 131 0 0 0 0 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1934 CLE AL 34 121 112 121 118 0 0 0 0 118 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1935 CLE AL 35 6 4 6 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
13 Seasons 1693 1646 1693 1675 0 0 0 0 1675 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 1
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
1958 BBWAA ( 1.1%)
1960 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1925 AL (12, 11%)
1928 AL (5, 23%)
1933 AL (21, 1%)
0.35 Career Shares (557th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  149 (1st)
1924 AL  146 (2nd)
1925 AL  152 (2nd)
1926 AL  142 (1st)
1927 AL  146 (1st)
1928 AL  155 (1st)
1929 AL  145 (4th)
1930 AL  106 (4th)
1931 AL  132 (2nd)
1932 AL  148 (2nd)
1933 AL  131 (5th)
1934 AL  118 (5th)
Career  1,674 (31st)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  173 (2nd)
1924 AL  190 (1st)
1925 AL  182 (2nd)
1926 AL  177 (1st)
1927 AL  236 (1st)
1928 AL  243 (1st)
1929 AL  221 (1st)
1930 AL  142 (2nd)
1931 AL  158 (1st)
1932 AL  164 (1st)
1933 AL  153 (2nd)
1934 AL  109 (5th)
Career  2,151 (8th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  352 (2nd)
1924 AL  312 (1st)
1925 AL  310 (1st)
1926 AL  323 (1st)
1927 AL  279 (2nd)
1928 AL  278 (3rd)
1929 AL  270 (3rd)
1930 AL  209 (3rd)
1931 AL  240 (2nd)
1932 AL  299 (1st)
1934 AL  248 (3rd)
Career  3,345 (27th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  22 (4th)
1925 AL  22 (3rd)
1930 AL  23 (2nd)
1931 AL  23 (2nd)
1932 AL  16 (3rd)
Career  185 (94th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  3.52 (2nd)
1924 AL  3.44 (2nd)
1925 AL  3.24 (2nd)
1926 AL  3.52 (2nd)
1927 AL  3.53 (3rd)
1928 AL  3.36 (2nd)
1929 AL  3.39 (1st)
1930 AL  3.31 (1st)
1931 AL  3.02 (2nd)
1932 AL  3.13 (2nd)
1933 AL  2.86 (2nd)
1934 AL  3.03 (2nd)
Career  3.28 (32nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  .960 (2nd)
1924 AL  .971 (1st)
1925 AL  .957 (2nd)
1926 AL  .978 (1st)
1927 AL  .972 (1st)
1928 AL  .977 (1st)
1929 AL  .978 (1st)
1931 AL  .945 (5th)
1932 AL  .967 (4th)
1933 AL  .984 (1st)
1934 AL  .978 (1st)
Career  .967 (16th)

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