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Bill McKechnie

William Boyd McKechnie (Deacon)

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: August 7, 1886 in Wilkinsburg, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1907
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Hoosiers/Pepper/Reds/Giants/... 1907-1920

Final Game: September 28, 1920
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Manager in 1962.
   View Bill McKechnie Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: October 29, 1965 in Bradenton, FL
Buried: Manasota Memorial Park, Bradenton, FL
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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
1907 PIT NL 20 3B 2 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 2.00 .928 3.35
1907 PIT NL 20 2B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 5.20
1910 PIT NL 23 2B 36 207 89 112 6 15 .971 5.58 .952 5.23
1910 PIT NL 23 SS 14 69 24 40 5 4 .928 4.57 .924 5.20
1910 PIT NL 23 3B 8 15 5 10 0 0 1.000 1.88 .932 3.18
1910 PIT NL 23 1B 4 33 28 4 1 1 .970 8.00 .984 10.40
1911 PIT NL 24 1B 57 570 524 32 14 28 .975 9.75 .985 10.23
1911 PIT NL 24 2B 17 100 49 48 3 16 .970 5.71 .952 5.21
1911 PIT NL 24 SS 12 48 20 25 3 5 .938 3.75 .925 5.12
1911 PIT NL 24 3B 6 10 5 4 1 0 .900 1.50 .936 3.13
1912 PIT NL 25 3B 13 46 15 30 1 0 .978 3.46 .935 3.15
1912 PIT NL 25 SS 4 12 3 8 1 2 .917 2.75 .931 5.20
1912 PIT NL 25 2B 3 5 1 4 0 2 1.000 1.67 .956 5.33
1912 PIT NL 25 1B 2 5 4 0 1 0 .800 2.00 .988 10.15
1913 BSN NL 26 OF 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 3.00 .960 2.20 0-1-0
1913 NYY AL 26 2B 28 140 57 76 7 12 .950 4.75 .954 4.98
1913 NYY AL 26 SS 7 36 16 16 4 1 .889 4.57 .935 5.39
1913 NYY AL 26 3B 2 4 1 2 1 0 .750 1.50 .935 3.15
1914 IND FL 27 3B 149 556 195 327 34 28 .939 3.50 .932 3.11
1915 NEW FL 28 3B 117 429 184 226 19 17 .956 3.50 .943 3.33
1915 NEW FL 28 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 0-0-1
1916 TOT NL 29 3B 106 318 108 193 17 14 .947 2.84 .938 3.18
1916 NYG NL 29 3B 71 217 70 134 13 8 .940 2.87 .938 3.18
1916 CIN NL 29 3B 35 101 38 59 4 6 .960 2.77 .938 3.18
1917 CIN NL 30 2B 26 106 49 51 6 11 .943 3.85 .956 5.33
1917 CIN NL 30 SS 13 75 24 42 9 4 .880 5.08 .931 5.34
1917 CIN NL 30 3B 4 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .942 3.25
1918 PIT NL 31 3B 126 126 124 438 162 261 15 27 .966 3.36 .949 3.39
1920 PIT NL 33 3B 20 15 14 53 21 29 3 2 .943 2.50 .947 3.16
1920 PIT NL 33 SS 10 10 8 59 19 37 3 7 .949 5.60 .941 5.73
1920 PIT NL 33 2B 6 5 5 32 12 18 2 2 .938 5.00 .963 5.73
1920 PIT NL 33 1B 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .990 11.10
11 Seasons 3B 553 141 138 1877 700 1086 91 88 .952 3.23 .940 3.24
7 Seasons 2B 117 5 5 591 257 310 24 58 .959 4.85 .954 5.22
4 Seasons 1B 64 0 0 612 560 36 16 29 .974 9.31 .985 10.25
6 Seasons SS 60 10 8 299 106 168 25 23 .916 4.57 .931 5.32
2 Seasons OF 2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .960 2.15 0-1-1
11 Seasons TOT 796 156 151 3382 1626 1600 156 198 .954 4.05 .950 4.25 0-1-1
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
1907 PIT NL 20 3 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1910 PIT NL 23 71 71 0 0 4 36 8 14 0 0 0 0 0
1911 PIT NL 24 104 104 0 0 57 17 6 12 0 0 0 0 0
1912 PIT NL 25 24 24 0 0 2 3 13 4 0 0 0 0 0
1913 NYY AL 26 45 45 0 0 0 28 2 7 0 0 0 0 0
1913 BSN NL 26 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1914 IND FL 27 149 149 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 NEW FL 28 127 127 0 0 0 0 117 0 0 0 1 1 0
1916 NYG NL 29 71 71 0 0 0 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 CIN NL 29 37 37 0 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 CIN NL 30 48 48 0 0 0 26 4 13 0 0 0 0 0
1918 PIT NL 31 126 126 0 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0
1920 PIT NL 33 40 30 40 37 0 0 1 6 20 11 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
11 Seasons 846 30 846 37 0 0 64 117 553 61 0 1 1 2 0 3 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
1945 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1946 Nominating Vote ( 1.0%)
1950 BBWAA ( 0.6%)
1951 BBWAA ( 3.5%)
1962 Veterans (inducted)
Selected to HOF in 1962
by Veteran's Committee

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1914 FL  149 (1st)
1915 FL  117 (2nd)
1918 NL  126 (1st)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1914 FL  195 (2nd)
1915 FL  184 (1st)
1918 NL  162 (2nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1914 FL  327 (1st)
1915 FL  226 (2nd)
1918 NL  261 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1914 FL  34 (2nd)
1915 FL  19 (3rd)
1916 NL  17 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1914 FL  3.50 (1st)
1915 FL  3.50 (4th)
1918 NL  3.36 (5th)
Career  3.23 (43rd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1914 FL  .939 (3rd)
1915 FL  .956 (4th)
1916 NL  .947 (4th)
1918 NL  .966 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1907 NL  born 1886-08-07 (7th)

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