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Bill Smiley

William B. Smiley

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Unknown, Throws: Unknown

Born: 1856 in Baltimore, MD (All Transactions)
Debut: October 13, 1874
Teams (by GP): BrownStockings/Orioles/Canaries 1874-1882

Final Game: September 30, 1882
Died: July 11, 1884 in Baltimore, MD
Buried: St. Patrick 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
1874 BAL NA 18 3B 2 14 8 3 3 0 .786 5.50 .759 4.35
1882 TOT AA 26 2B 73 454 188 209 57 27 .874 5.44 .882 5.96
1882 STL AA 26 2B 57 339 145 155 39 20 .885 5.26 .882 5.96
1882 STL AA 26 OF 2 6 3 1 2 0 .667 2.00 .848 1.85 1-0-1
1882 BAL AA 26 2B 16 115 43 54 18 7 .843 6.06 .882 5.96
1882 BAL AA 26 SS 2 5 2 2 1 1 .800 2.00 .860 4.90
1 Season 2B 73 454 188 209 57 27 .874 5.44 .882 5.96
1 Season OF 2 6 3 1 2 0 .667 2.00 .848 1.85 1-0-1
1 Season 3B 2 14 8 3 3 0 .786 5.50 .759 4.35
1 Season SS 2 5 2 2 1 1 .800 2.00 .860 4.90
2 Seasons TOT 79 479 201 215 63 28 .868 5.27 .878 5.79 1-0-1
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
1874 BAL NA 18 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1882 STL AA 26 59 59 0 0 0 57 0 0 1 0 1 2 0
1882 BAL AA 26 16 16 0 0 0 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 77 77 0 0 0 73 2 2 1 0 1 2 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

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1882 AA  73 (3rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1882 AA  188 (4th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1882 AA  209 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1882 AA  57 (2nd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1882 AA  .874 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1874 NA  born 1856-00-00 (3rd)

                           

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