Bill Lange

William Alexander Lange (Little Eva)

Positions: Centerfielder and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: June 6, 1871 in San Francisco, CA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 27, 1893
Teams (by GP): Colts/Orphans 1893-1899

Final Game: October 15, 1899
Died: July 23, 1950 in San Francisco, CA
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, CA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1893	CHC	NL	22	2B	57	374	151	181	42	21	.888	5.82	.933	5.94
1893	CHC	NL	22	OF	40	109	97	7	5	1	.954	2.60	.915	2.18	14-27-0
1893	CHC	NL	22	3B	8	43	14	25	4	3	.907	4.88	.893	3.79
1893	CHC	NL	22	C	7	38	23	12	3	1	.921	5.00	.936	4.79		6	13	11	46%	37%
1893	CHC	NL	22	SS	7	49	18	25	6	2	.878	6.14	.897	5.54
1894	CHC	NL	23	OF	111	330	276	25	29	10	.912	2.71	.915	2.28	1-108-2
1894	CHC	NL	23	SS	2	8	1	3	4	0	.500	2.00	.898	5.70
1894	CHC	NL	23	3B	1	6	2	1	3	0	.500	3.00	.878	3.50
1895	CHC	NL	24	OF	123	353	298	28	27	6	.924	2.65	.917	2.18	0-123-0
1896	CHC	NL	25	OF	121	355	313	18	24	3	.932	2.74	.933	2.16	0-121-0
1896	CHC	NL	25	C	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.940	4.60		1	0	0
1897	CHC	NL	26	OF	118	297	264	17	16	4	.946	2.38	.936	2.09	0-118-0
1898	CHC	NL	27	OF	111	297	269	19	9	4	.970	2.59	.937	2.08	0-111-0
1898	CHC	NL	27	1B	2	17	17	0	0	1	1.000	8.50	.977	10.35
1899	CHC	NL	28	OF	94	252	224	22	6	11	.976	2.62	.944	2.15	0-94-0
1899	CHC	NL	28	1B	14	158	149	4	5	9	.968	10.93	.977	10.49
	7 Seasons			OF	718	1993	1741	136	116	39	.942	2.61	.929	2.16	15-702-2
	1 Season			2B	57	374	151	181	42	21	.888	5.82	.933	5.94
	2 Seasons			1B	16	175	166	4	5	10	.971	10.63	.977	10.48
	2 Seasons			3B	9	49	16	26	7	3	.857	4.67	.891	3.76
	2 Seasons			SS	9	57	19	28	10	2	.825	5.22	.897	5.58
	2 Seasons			C	8	39	24	12	3	1	.923	4.50	.936	4.76		7	13	11	46%	37%
	7 Seasons			TOT	817	2687	2117	387	183	76	.932	3.06	.931	2.67	15-702-2	7	13	11	46%	37%

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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	Batting	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF
1893	CHC	NL	22	117	117	7	0	57	8	7	14	27	0	40
1894	CHC	NL	23	113	113	0	0	0	1	2	1	108	2	111
1895	CHC	NL	24	123	123	0	0	0	0	0	0	123	0	123
1896	CHC	NL	25	122	122	1	0	0	0	0	0	121	0	121
1897	CHC	NL	26	118	118	0	0	0	0	0	0	118	0	118
1898	CHC	NL	27	113	113	0	2	0	0	0	0	111	0	111
1899	CHC	NL	28	107	107	0	14	0	0	0	0	94	0	94
	7 Seasons			813	813	8	16	57	9	9	15	702	2	718

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 1936 Veterans ( 7.7%) 1953 BBWAA ( 0.4%)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1896 NL 313 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1895 NL 28 (4th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1896 NL 24 (2nd)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1895 NL 2.65 (5th) 1896 NL 2.74 (2nd) 1898 NL 2.59 (2nd) 1899 NL 2.62 (3rd) Career 2.61 (37th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1898 NL .970 (3rd) 1899 NL .976 (5th)

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