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Bill Knickerbocker

William Hart Knickerbocker

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

Born: December 29, 1911 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Roosevelt HS (Los Angeles, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1933
Teams (by GP): Indians/Browns/Yankees/WhiteSox/Athletics 1933-1942

Final Game: September 17, 1942
Died: September 8, 1963 in Sebastopol, CA
Buried: Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, 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
1933 CLE AL 21 SS 80 75 70 409 151 233 25 37 .939 4.80 .942 5.34
1934 CLE AL 22 SS 146 146 143 741 262 451 28 106 .962 4.88 .951 5.24 MVP-19
1935 CLE AL 23 SS 128 128 124 732 247 453 32 82 .956 5.47 .957 5.35
1936 CLE AL 24 SS 155 155 155 839 313 486 40 97 .952 5.15 .950 5.35
1937 SLB AL 25 SS 115 115 112 598 205 368 25 59 .958 4.98 .955 5.23
1937 SLB AL 25 2B 6 5 4 27 15 11 1 5 .963 4.33 .972 5.63
1938 NYY AL 26 2B 34 31 31 167 78 86 3 23 .982 4.82 .967 5.52
1938 NYY AL 26 SS 3 0 0 7 4 3 0 2 1.000 2.33 .953 5.17
1939 NYY AL 27 2B 2 1 1 11 5 6 0 1 1.000 5.50 .965 5.55
1939 NYY AL 27 SS 2 0 0 7 1 6 0 0 1.000 3.50 .950 5.15
1940 NYY AL 28 SS 19 11 10 66 22 43 1 12 .985 3.42 .949 4.85
1940 NYY AL 28 3B 17 17 17 50 11 34 5 6 .900 2.65 .937 3.21
1941 CHW AL 29 2B 88 87 80 438 204 221 13 58 .970 4.83 .967 5.47
1942 PHA AL 30 2B 81 77 69 413 178 220 15 45 .964 4.91 .969 5.62
1942 PHA AL 30 SS 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 .950 5.00
9 Seasons SS 649 630 614 3400 1205 2043 152 395 .955 5.00 .952 5.29
5 Seasons 2B 211 201 185 1056 480 544 32 132 .970 4.85 .968 5.54
1 Season 3B 17 17 17 50 11 34 5 6 .900 2.65 .937 3.21
10 Seasons TOT 877 848 816 4506 1696 2621 189 533 .958 4.92 .955 5.31
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
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Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1933 CLE AL 21 80 75 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1934 CLE AL 22 146 146 146 146 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 CLE AL 23 132 128 132 128 0 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1936 CLE AL 24 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1937 SLB AL 25 121 120 121 121 0 0 0 6 0 115 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1938 NYY AL 26 46 31 46 37 0 0 0 34 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 9 2
1939 NYY AL 27 6 1 6 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1940 NYY AL 28 45 28 45 36 0 0 0 0 17 19 0 0 0 0 0 8 2
1941 CHW AL 29 89 87 89 88 0 0 0 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1942 PHA AL 30 87 77 87 81 0 0 0 81 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
10 Seasons 907 848 907 876 0 0 0 211 17 649 0 0 0 0 0 31 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1934 AL (19, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1361st)

Assists† s c a p y
1936 AL  486 (3rd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1935 AL  32 (4th)
1936 AL  40 (3rd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1934 AL  146 (3rd)
1935 AL  128 (4th)
1936 AL  155 (1st)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1934 AL  262 (2nd)
1935 AL  247 (5th)
1936 AL  313 (4th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1934 AL  451 (4th)
1935 AL  453 (3rd)
1936 AL  486 (2nd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1935 AL  32 (3rd)
1936 AL  40 (3rd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1941 AL  .970 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1935 AL  5.47 (3rd)
1936 AL  5.15 (5th)
Career  5.00 (67th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1934 AL  .962 (2nd)
1935 AL  .956 (5th)
1936 AL  .952 (5th)
1937 AL  .958 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1933 AL  born 1911-12-29 (8th)

             

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