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Bill Killefer

William Killefer (Reindeer Bill)

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

Born: October 10, 1887 in Bloomingdale, MI
High School: Paw Paw HS (Paw Paw, MI)
School: Saint Edward's University (Austin, TX) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1909
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Cubs/Browns 1909-1921

Final Game: October 1, 1921
Died: July 3, 1960 in Elsmere, DE
Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Paw Paw, MI
Relatives: Brother of Red Killefer
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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
1909 SLB AL 21 C 11 63 36 21 6 2 .905 5.18 .969 6.46 0 11 15 58% 45%
1910 SLB AL 22 C 73 464 311 124 29 16 .938 5.96 .968 6.88 4 96 85 47% 45%
1911 PHI NL 23 C 6 40 29 10 1 1 .975 6.50 .966 6.43 1 8 8 50% 44%
1912 PHI NL 24 C 85 556 407 134 15 17 .973 6.36 .969 6.31 5 112 97 46% 44%
1913 PHI NL 25 C 118 745 570 166 9 16 .988 6.24 .970 6.29 5 127 130 51% 44%
1913 PHI NL 25 1B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.40
1914 PHI NL 26 C 90 632 464 154 14 11 .978 6.87 .970 6.31 2 131 94 42% 44%
1915 PHI NL 27 C 104 684 539 126 19 6 .972 6.39 .975 6.20 8 82 77 48% 46%
1916 PHI NL 28 C 91 540 443 89 8 15 .985 5.85 .974 6.30 11 83 66 44% 44%
1917 PHI NL 29 C 120 765 615 138 12 14 .984 6.28 .975 5.98 8 92 76 45% 44%
1917 PHI NL 29 OF 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .965 2.20 1-0-0
1918 CHC NL 30 C 104 103 84 608 487 110 11 12 .982 5.74 .974 5.25 7 89 73 45% 44%
1919 CHC NL 31 C 100 100 85 610 478 124 8 7 .987 6.02 .972 5.39 3 97 76 44% 44%
1920 CHC NL 32 C 61 61 45 393 304 80 9 6 .977 6.30 .968 5.31 2 36 51 59% 46%
1921 CHC NL 33 C 42 38 27 197 147 43 7 6 .964 4.52 .971 4.87 2 29 26 47% 49%
13 Seasons C 1005 302 241 6297 4830 1319 148 129 .976 6.12 .972 5.98 58 993 874 47% 45%
1 Season 1B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.40
1 Season OF 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .965 2.20 1-0-0
13 Seasons TOT 1007 302 241 6300 4833 1319 148 129 .977 6.11 .972 5.98 1-0-0 58 993 874 47% 45%
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
1909 SLB AL 21 11 11 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1910 SLB AL 22 74 74 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 PHI NL 23 6 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 PHI NL 24 85 85 0 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 PHI NL 25 120 120 0 118 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 PHI NL 26 98 98 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 PHI NL 27 105 105 0 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 PHI NL 28 97 97 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 PHI NL 29 125 125 0 120 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
1918 CHC NL 30 104 104 0 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1919 CHC NL 31 103 100 103 100 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1920 CHC NL 32 62 61 62 61 0 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1921 CHC NL 33 45 38 45 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
13 Seasons 1035 199 1035 203 0 1005 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 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

Hall of Fame
1946 Nominating Vote ( 0.5%)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1913 NL  118 (1st)
1915 NL  104 (4th)
1916 NL  91 (5th)
1917 NL  120 (1st)
1918 NL  104 (1st)
1919 NL  100 (1st)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1913 NL  570 (2nd)
1914 NL  464 (3rd)
1915 NL  539 (3rd)
1916 NL  443 (4th)
1917 NL  615 (1st)
1918 NL  487 (1st)
1919 NL  478 (1st)

Assists as C s c a p y
1910 AL  124 (5th)
1912 NL  134 (4th)
1913 NL  166 (1st)
1914 NL  154 (1st)
1915 NL  126 (4th)
1917 NL  138 (2nd)
1918 NL  110 (4th)
1919 NL  124 (1st)
Career  1,319 (18th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1910 AL  29 (1st)
1912 NL  15 (5th)
1915 NL  19 (2nd)
1918 NL  11 (2nd)
Career  148 (76th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1917 NL  8 (4th)
1918 NL  7 (2nd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1912 NL  112 (4th)
1913 NL  127 (2nd)
1914 NL  131 (1st)
1916 NL  83 (5th)
1917 NL  92 (2nd)
1918 NL  89 (3rd)
1919 NL  97 (1st)
Career  993 (36th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1910 AL  85 (5th)
1912 NL  97 (4th)
1913 NL  130 (1st)
1914 NL  94 (1st)
1915 NL  77 (5th)
1917 NL  76 (2nd)
1918 NL  73 (3rd)
1919 NL  76 (1st)
Career  874 (18th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1912 NL  46.4 (5th)
1913 NL  50.6 (1st)
1915 NL  48.4 (4th)
1920 NL  58.6 (2nd)
Career  46.8 (56th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1912 NL  6.36 (1st)
1913 NL  6.24 (1st)
1914 NL  6.87 (1st)
1915 NL  6.39 (1st)
1916 NL  5.85 (5th)
1917 NL  6.28 (1st)
1918 NL  5.74 (1st)
1919 NL  6.02 (1st)
Career  6.12 (79th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1912 NL  .973 (5th)
1913 NL  .988 (2nd)
1914 NL  .978 (2nd)
1916 NL  .985 (1st)
1917 NL  .984 (1st)
1918 NL  .982 (1st)
1919 NL  .987 (1st)

             

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