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Bill Lamar

William Harmong Lamar (Good Time Bill)

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: March 21, 1897 in Rockville, MD (All Transactions)
Debut: September 19, 1917
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Yankees/RedSox/Robins 1917-1927

Final Game: August 6, 1927
Died: May 24, 1970 in Rockport, MA
Buried: Baltimore National Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
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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
1917 NYY AL 20 OF 11 27 26 1 0 0 1.000 2.45 .967 2.22 10-1-0
1918 NYY AL 21 OF 27 25 22 69 58 3 8 2 .884 2.26 .962 2.26 8-17-2
1918 NYY AL 21 CF 19 17 15 49 41 2 6 1 .878 2.26 .967 2.63
1918 NYY AL 21 LF 8 6 5 18 15 1 2 1 .889 2.00 .961 2.20
1918 NYY AL 21 RF 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .955 2.00
1919 TOT AL 22 OF 39 34 33 81 68 7 6 1 .926 1.92 .958 2.26
1919 TOT AL 22 CF 29 27 27 65 53 6 6 1 .908 2.03 .961 2.64
1919 TOT AL 22 RF 5 3 3 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 1.40 .950 1.94
1919 NYY AL 22 OF 3 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.33 .958 2.27
1919 NYY AL 22 RF 2 1 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .950 1.95
1919 NYY AL 22 1B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.70
1919 NYY AL 22 CF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.60
1919 BOS AL 22 OF 36 33 32 77 64 7 6 1 .922 1.97 .958 2.26
1919 BOS AL 22 CF 28 27 27 64 52 6 6 1 .906 2.07 .961 2.64
1919 BOS AL 22 LF 5 4 3 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 1.20 .962 2.20
1919 BOS AL 22 RF 3 2 2 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.33 .950 1.93
1920 BRO NL 23 OF 12 7 5 13 12 1 0 0 1.000 1.08 .964 2.34
1920 BRO NL 23 CF 6 2 2 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 1.33 .962 2.75
1920 BRO NL 23 RF 6 5 3 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0.83 .960 2.08
1921 BRO NL 24 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.80
1921 BRO NL 24 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.40
1924 PHA AL 27 OF 87 87 87 206 187 13 6 4 .971 2.30 .970 2.39
1924 PHA AL 27 LF 84 84 84 197 179 13 5 3 .975 2.29 .964 2.34
1924 PHA AL 27 CF 3 3 3 6 5 0 1 0 .833 1.67 .975 2.80
1925 PHA AL 28 LF 131 131 125 316 283 18 15 3 .953 2.30 .958 2.33
1925 PHA AL 28 OF 131 131 125 316 283 18 15 4 .953 2.30 .965 2.43
1926 PHA AL 29 LF 107 103 95 219 199 10 10 2 .954 1.95 .965 2.30
1926 PHA AL 29 OF 107 103 95 219 199 10 10 2 .954 1.95 .966 2.34
1927 PHA AL 30 OF 79 75 74 165 148 9 8 1 .952 1.99 .964 2.35
1927 PHA AL 30 LF 76 73 72 157 143 7 7 1 .955 1.97 .967 2.38
1927 PHA AL 30 CF 3 2 2 8 5 2 1 0 .875 2.33 .966 2.70
9 Seasons OF 494 462 441 1096 981 62 53 14 .952 2.11 .965 2.36 429-79-15
6 Seasons (incomplete) LF 411 401 384 913 824 50 39 10 .957 2.13 .963 2.33
6 Seasons (incomplete) CF 61 51 49 136 111 11 14 2 .897 2.00 .964 2.66
3 Seasons (incomplete) RF 13 10 8 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 1.08 .954 2.02
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.70
9 Seasons TOT 495 462 441 1097 982 62 53 14 .952 2.11 .965 2.38 429-79-15
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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
1917 NYY AL 20 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 0 11 0
1918 NYY AL 21 28 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 17 2 27 0
1919 BOS AL 22 48 33 48 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 28 3 36 0 12 0
1919 NYY AL 22 11 1 11 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 8 0
1920 BRO NL 23 24 7 24 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 12 0 10 2
1921 BRO NL 24 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0
1924 PHA AL 27 87 87 87 87 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 3 0 87 0 0 0
1925 PHA AL 28 138 131 138 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 131 0 0 131 0 7 0
1926 PHA AL 29 116 103 116 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 107 0 0 107 0 9 0
1927 PHA AL 30 84 75 84 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 3 0 79 0 5 0
9 Seasons 550 437 550 457 0 0 1 0 0 0 421 60 13 494 0 54 2
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 LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1925 AL  131 (4th)
1926 AL  107 (3rd)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1925 AL  283 (4th)
1926 AL  199 (4th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1924 AL  13 (3rd)
1925 AL  18 (1st)
1926 AL  10 (5th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1925 AL  15 (2nd)
1926 AL  10 (4th)
Career  39 (85th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1925 AL  18 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1925 AL  15 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1924 AL  2.29 (5th)
1925 AL  2.30 (5th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1924 AL  .975 (2nd)
1926 AL  .954 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1917 AL  born 1897-03-21 (3rd)

                                         

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