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Bill Sweeney

William Joseph Sweeney

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 29, 1904 in Cleveland, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1928
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Tigers 1928-1931

Final Game: September 27, 1931
Died: April 18, 1957 in San Diego, CA
Buried: Resurrection Cemetery, San Gabriel, CA
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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 Awards
1928 DET AL 23 1B 75 72 60 737 677 55 5 51 .993 9.76 .990 10.42
1928 DET AL 23 LF 3 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .973 2.30
1928 DET AL 23 OF 3 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .973 2.37
1930 BOS AL 25 1B 56 51 50 573 541 30 2 49 .997 10.20 .989 10.00
1930 BOS AL 25 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00
1931 BOS AL 26 1B 124 121 117 1384 1283 92 9 89 .993 11.09 .991 10.03
3 Seasons 1B 255 244 227 2694 2501 177 16 189 .994 10.50 .990 10.14
1 Season OF 3 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .973 2.37
1 Season LF 3 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .973 2.30
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00
3 Seasons TOT 259 246 228 2697 2504 177 16 189 .994 10.35 .990 10.02
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
1928 DET AL 23 89 74 89 77 0 0 75 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 8 4
1930 BOS AL 25 88 51 88 56 0 0 56 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 5
1931 BOS AL 26 131 121 131 124 0 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
3 Seasons 308 246 308 257 0 0 255 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 0 42 9
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

Putouts† s c a p y
1931 AL  1,283 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1931 AL  1,283 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1931 AL  92 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1931 AL  11.09 (1st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1931 AL  .993 (1st)

                                         

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