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Bill Terry

William Harold Terry (Memphis Bill)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: October 30, 1898 in Atlanta, GA(All Transactions)
Debut: September 24, 1923 (Age 24)
Team: Giants 1923-1936

Final Game: September 22, 1936 (Age 37)
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 1954 (195/252 ballots).
   View Bill Terry Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: January 9, 1989 in Jacksonville, FL
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, 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 Awards
1923 NYG NL 24 1B 2 2 2 23 22 1 0 1 1.000 11.50 .990 10.55
1924 NYG NL 25 1B 35 31 29 343 325 14 4 30 .988 9.69 .989 10.72
1925 NYG NL 26 1B 126 124 118 1361 1270 77 14 83 .990 10.69 .989 10.33
1926 NYG NL 27 1B 38 37 37 431 391 31 9 36 .979 11.11 .989 10.56
1926 NYG NL 27 OF 14 13 13 30 27 3 0 0 1.000 2.14 .965 2.42
1926 NYG NL 27 RF 13 12 12 29 26 3 0 0 1.000 2.23 .968 2.21
1926 NYG NL 27 LF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.20
1927 NYG NL 28 1B 150 150 148 1738 1621 105 12 135 .993 11.51 .989 10.51 MVP-13
1928 NYG NL 29 1B 149 149 146 1674 1584 78 12 148 .993 11.15 .989 10.48
1929 NYG NL 30 1B 149 149 145 1697 1575 111 11 146 .994 11.32 .989 10.47 MVP-3
1929 NYG NL 30 LF 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 .970 2.10 MVP-3
1929 NYG NL 30 OF 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 .970 2.50 MVP-3
1930 NYG NL 31 1B 154 154 152 1683 1538 128 17 128 .990 10.82 .990 10.22
1931 NYG NL 32 1B 153 153 147 1532 1411 105 16 108 .990 9.91 .990 10.11 MVP-3
1932 NYG NL 33 1B 154 154 152 1644 1493 137 14 125 .991 10.58 .990 10.19 MVP-6
1933 NYG NL 34 1B 117 117 113 1333 1246 76 11 103 .992 11.30 .990 10.42 AS,MVP-4
1934 NYG NL 35 1B 153 153 149 1707 1592 105 10 131 .994 11.09 .991 10.02 AS,MVP-7
1935 NYG NL 36 1B 143 143 137 1484 1379 99 6 105 .996 10.34 .989 9.93 AS,MVP-6
1936 NYG NL 37 1B 56 52 51 568 525 41 2 55 .996 10.11 .990 10.15
14 Seasons 1B 1579 1568 1526 17218 15972 1108 138 1334 .992 10.82 .990 10.28
2 Seasons OF 15 14 14 31 27 3 1 0 .968 2.00 .965 2.43
1 Season RF 13 12 12 29 26 3 0 0 1.000 2.23 .968 2.21
2 Seasons LF 2 2 2 2 1 0 1 0 .500 0.50 .965 2.15
14 Seasons TOT 1594 1582 1540 17249 15999 1111 139 1334 .992 10.73 .990 10.20
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1923 NYG NL 24 3 2 3 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1924 NYG NL 25 77 31 77 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 0
1925 NYG NL 26 133 124 133 126 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1926 NYG NL 27 98 50 98 52 0 0 38 0 0 0 1 0 13 14 0 46 0
1927 NYG NL 28 150 150 150 150 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1928 NYG NL 29 149 149 149 149 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1929 NYG NL 30 150 150 150 150 0 0 149 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
1930 NYG NL 31 154 154 154 154 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1931 NYG NL 32 153 153 153 153 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 NYG NL 33 154 154 154 154 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1933 NYG NL 34 123 117 123 117 0 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1934 NYG NL 35 153 153 153 153 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 NYG NL 36 145 143 145 143 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1936 NYG NL 37 78 52 78 56 0 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 0
14 Seasons 1720 1582 1720 1594 0 0 1579 0 0 0 2 0 13 15 0 126 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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 ( 4.0%)
1938 BBWAA ( 2.7%)
1939 BBWAA ( 5.8%)
1942 BBWAA (15.5%)
1945 BBWAA (13.0%)
1946 Nominating Vote (15.3%)
1947 BBWAA (28.6%)
1948 BBWAA (43.0%)
1949 BBWAA (52.9%)
1949 Run Off (25.7%)
1950 BBWAA (62.5%)
1951 BBWAA (65.5%)
1952 BBWAA (66.2%)
1953 BBWAA (72.3%)
1954 BBWAA (77.4%)
Selected to HOF in 1954 by BBWAA

All-Star Games
1933 (1B)
1934 (1B)
1935 (1B)

Awards (yr lg award)
1930 NL batting_title

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1927 NL (13, 8%)
1929 NL (3, 60%)
1931 NL (3, 66%)
1932 NL (6, 31%)
1933 NL (4, 44%)
1934 NL (7, 38%)
1935 NL (6, 25%)
2.72 Career Shares (46th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1925 NL  1,270 (5th)
1927 NL  1,621 (2nd)
1928 NL  1,584 (1st)
1929 NL  1,575 (1st)
1930 NL  1,538 (1st)
1931 NL  1,411 (2nd)
1932 NL  1,493 (1st)
1933 NL  1,246 (5th)
1934 NL  1,592 (1st)
1935 NL  1,379 (2nd)
Career  15,999 (35th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1925 NL  126 (5th)
1927 NL  150 (2nd)
1928 NL  149 (2nd)
1929 NL  149 (3rd)
1930 NL  154 (1st)
1931 NL  153 (1st)
1932 NL  154 (1st)
1934 NL  153 (2nd)
1935 NL  143 (5th)
Career  1,579 (51st)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1925 NL  1,270 (5th)
1927 NL  1,621 (2nd)
1928 NL  1,584 (1st)
1929 NL  1,575 (1st)
1930 NL  1,538 (1st)
1931 NL  1,411 (2nd)
1932 NL  1,493 (1st)
1933 NL  1,246 (5th)
1934 NL  1,592 (1st)
1935 NL  1,379 (2nd)
Career  15,972 (35th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1925 NL  77 (3rd)
1927 NL  105 (1st)
1928 NL  78 (2nd)
1929 NL  111 (2nd)
1930 NL  128 (1st)
1931 NL  105 (1st)
1932 NL  137 (1st)
1934 NL  105 (2nd)
1935 NL  99 (1st)
Career  1,108 (34th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1925 NL  14 (5th)
1928 NL  12 (5th)
1929 NL  11 (5th)
1930 NL  17 (2nd)
1931 NL  16 (3rd)
1932 NL  14 (2nd)
1934 NL  10 (5th)
Career  138 (66th)

Double Plays Turned as 1B s c a p y
1927 NL  135 (2nd)
1928 NL  148 (1st)
1929 NL  146 (1st)
1930 NL  128 (3rd)
1931 NL  108 (4th)
1932 NL  125 (2nd)
1933 NL  103 (5th)
1934 NL  131 (1st)
1935 NL  105 (5th)
Career  1,334 (35th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1925 NL  10.69 (1st)
1927 NL  11.51 (1st)
1928 NL  11.15 (1st)
1929 NL  11.32 (1st)
1930 NL  10.82 (2nd)
1932 NL  10.58 (1st)
1933 NL  11.30 (1st)
1934 NL  11.09 (1st)
1935 NL  10.34 (1st)
Career  10.82 (10th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1925 NL  .990 (2nd)
1927 NL  .993 (2nd)
1928 NL  .993 (2nd)
1929 NL  .994 (2nd)
1930 NL  .990 (4th)
1931 NL  .990 (4th)
1932 NL  .991 (3rd)
1933 NL  .992 (3rd)
1934 NL  .994 (1st)
1935 NL  .996 (1st)

Oldest s c a p y
1936 NL  born 1898-10-30 (7th)
1936 NL  born 1898-10-30 (7th)

                                         

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