Billy Sullivan

William Joseph Sullivan Sr.

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: February 1, 1875 in Oakland, WI
High School: Fort Atkinson HS (Fort Atkinson, WI) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1899
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Beaneaters/Tigers 1899-1916

Final Game: April 15, 1916
Died: January 28, 1965 in Newberg, OR
Buried: St James Catholic Cemetery, McMinnville, OR
Relatives: Father of Billy Sullivan
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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	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1899	BSN	NL	24	C	22				126	94	26	6	3	.952		5.45	.952		4.59		6		28	23	45%	44%
1900	BSN	NL	25	C	66				306	227	71	8	10	.974		4.52	.949		4.98		21		87	60	41%	45%
1900	BSN	NL	25	2B	1				6	3	3	0	1	1.000		6.00	.938		5.30
1900	BSN	NL	25	SS	1				6	2	3	1	0	.833		5.00	.922		5.90
1901	CHW	AL	26	C	97				517	396	104	17	13	.967		5.15	.950		4.97		13		108	93	46%	44%
1901	CHW	AL	26	3B	1				2	0	0	2	0	.000		0.00	.900		3.60
1902	CHW	AL	27	C	70				334	242	81	11	8	.967		4.61	.957		4.90		10		60	61	50%	44%
1902	CHW	AL	27	1B	2				11	11	0	0	2	1.000		5.50	.980		10.95
1902	CHW	AL	27	OF	2				1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.50	.940		2.05	1-0-1
1903	CHW	AL	28	C	31				160	123	35	2	1	.988		5.10	.971		6.07		8		29	26	47%	44%
1904	CHW	AL	29	C	107				615	463	130	22	10	.964		5.54	.969		6.15		10		75	82	52%	44%
1905	CHW	AL	30	C	92				506	389	104	13	8	.974		5.36	.971		6.40		10		71	68	49%	45%
1905	CHW	AL	30	1B	2				15	15	0	0	2	1.000		7.50	.982		10.80
1905	CHW	AL	30	3B	1				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			3.10
1906	CHW	AL	31	C	118				625	475	134	16	7	.974		5.16	.961		5.98		11		96	103	52%	45%
1907	CHW	AL	32	C	108				604	477	117	10	12	.983		5.50	.968		6.11		11		94	81	46%	44%
1907	CHW	AL	32	2B	1				4	2	2	0	1	1.000		4.00	.955		5.40
1908	CHW	AL	33	C	137				720	553	156	11	11	.985		5.18	.969		6.28		9		122	107	47%	45%
1909	CHW	AL	34	C	97				581	452	119	10	6	.983		5.89	.969		6.46		10		110	86	44%	45%
1910	CHW	AL	35	C	45				370	290	71	9	5	.976		8.02	.968		6.88		7		46	44	49%	45%
1911	CHW	AL	36	C	89				569	447	114	8	13	.986		6.30	.965		6.80		13		75	82	52%	45%
1912	CHW	AL	37	C	41				204	147	52	5	4	.975		4.85	.961		6.78		1		44	36	45%	42%
1914	CHW	AL	39	C	1				1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		6.70		0		0	0
1916	DET	AL	41	C	1				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			6.30		0		0	0
	16 Seasons			C	1122				6238	4776	1314	148	111	.976		5.43	.964		6.01		140		1045	952	48%	45%
	2 Seasons			1B	4				26	26	0	0	4	1.000		6.50	.981		10.88
	2 Seasons			2B	2				10	5	5	0	2	1.000		5.00	.945		5.35
	1 Season			OF	2				1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.50	.940		2.05	1-0-1
	2 Seasons			3B	2				2	0	0	2	0	.000		0.00	.900		3.35
	1 Season			SS	1				6	2	3	1	0	.833		5.00	.922		5.90
	16 Seasons			TOT	1133				6283	4810	1322	151	117	.976		5.41	.964		6.02	1-0-1	140		1045	952	48%	45%
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	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.

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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	RF	OF
1899	BSN	NL	24	22	22	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1900	BSN	NL	25	72	72	66	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
1901	CHW	AL	26	98	98	97	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
1902	CHW	AL	27	76	76	70	2	0	0	0	1	1	2
1903	CHW	AL	28	32	32	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1904	CHW	AL	29	108	108	107	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905	CHW	AL	30	98	98	92	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
1906	CHW	AL	31	118	118	118	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907	CHW	AL	32	112	112	108	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1908	CHW	AL	33	137	137	137	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909	CHW	AL	34	97	97	97	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910	CHW	AL	35	45	45	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911	CHW	AL	36	89	89	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912	CHW	AL	37	41	41	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914	CHW	AL	39	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916	DET	AL	41	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	16 Seasons			1147	1147	1122	4	2	2	1	1	1	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

Hall of Fame 1936 BBWAA () 1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%) 1946 Nominating Vote ( 0.5%)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1901 AL 97 (3rd) 1904 AL 107 (1st) 1905 AL 92 (3rd) 1906 AL 118 (1st) 1907 AL 108 (2nd) 1908 AL 137 (1st) 1909 AL 97 (2nd) 1911 AL 89 (3rd) Career 1,122 (84th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1901 AL 396 (2nd) 1904 AL 463 (4th) 1905 AL 389 (4th) 1906 AL 475 (2nd) 1907 AL 477 (2nd) 1908 AL 553 (2nd) 1909 AL 452 (3rd) 1911 AL 447 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1904 AL 130 (1st) 1906 AL 134 (2nd) 1907 AL 117 (4th) 1908 AL 156 (3rd) 1909 AL 119 (2nd) 1911 AL 114 (3rd) Career 1,314 (19th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1904 AL 22 (2nd) 1905 AL 13 (5th) Career 148 (76th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1904 AL 10 (4th) 1905 AL 10 (5th) 1906 AL 11 (2nd) 1907 AL 11 (3rd) 1909 AL 10 (4th) 1911 AL 13 (3rd) Career 140 (76th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1901 AL 108 (5th) 1906 AL 96 (5th) 1907 AL 94 (4th) 1908 AL 122 (2nd) 1909 AL 110 (2nd) Career 1,045 (29th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1901 AL 93 (3rd) 1904 AL 82 (1st) 1906 AL 103 (1st) 1907 AL 81 (4th) 1908 AL 107 (2nd) 1909 AL 86 (2nd) 1911 AL 82 (4th) Career 952 (12th)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1902 AL 50.4 (2nd) 1904 AL 52.2 (1st) 1905 AL 48.9 (5th) 1906 AL 51.8 (2nd) 1910 AL 48.9 (5th) 1911 AL 52.2 (1st) Career 47.7 (41st)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1901 AL 5.15 (3rd) 1902 AL 4.61 (5th) 1905 AL 5.36 (4th) 1906 AL 5.16 (3rd) 1907 AL 5.50 (3rd) 1909 AL 5.89 (4th) 1911 AL 6.30 (1st)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1901 AL .967 (2nd) 1902 AL .967 (3rd) 1905 AL .974 (3rd) 1906 AL .974 (1st) 1907 AL .983 (2nd) 1908 AL .985 (1st) 1909 AL .983 (2nd) 1911 AL .986 (1st)	Oldest s c a p y 1911 AL born 1875-02-01 (8th) 1914 AL born 1875-02-01 (5th) 1916 AL born 1875-02-01 (4th)

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