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Ken Williams

Kenneth Roy Williams

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: June 28, 1890 in Grants Pass, OR
High School: Fort Pleasant HS (San Jose, CA)(All Transactions)
Debut: July 14, 1915 (Age 25)
Teams (by GP): Browns/RedSox/Reds 1915-1929

Final Game: August 10, 1929 (Age 39)
Died: January 22, 1959 in Grants Pass, OR
Buried: Hillcrest Memorial Park, Grants Pass, OR
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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
1915 CIN NL 25 OF 62 135 117 11 7 4 .948 2.06 .959 2.12 54-8-0
1916 CIN NL 26 OF 10 8 7 22 19 2 1 1 .955 2.10 .967 2.15 8-1-0
1916 CIN NL 26 LF 8 8 7 20 18 1 1 0 .950 2.38 .963 2.14
1916 CIN NL 26 CF 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .975 2.50
1919 SLB AL 29 CF 63 61 61 190 168 10 12 3 .937 2.83 .961 2.64
1919 SLB AL 29 OF 63 61 61 190 168 10 12 3 .937 2.83 .958 2.26
1920 SLB AL 30 OF 138 138 135 362 331 17 14 7 .961 2.52 .962 2.25
1920 SLB AL 30 LF 94 94 93 241 224 12 5 7 .979 2.51 .962 2.30
1920 SLB AL 30 CF 44 44 42 121 107 5 9 0 .926 2.55 .966 2.55
1921 SLB AL 31 LF 145 143 140 381 331 24 26 5 .932 2.45 .958 2.38
1921 SLB AL 31 OF 145 143 140 381 331 24 26 5 .932 2.45 .960 2.33
1922 SLB AL 32 OF 153 153 151 400 372 16 12 4 .970 2.54 .964 2.31
1922 SLB AL 32 LF 137 137 135 364 340 15 9 2 .975 2.59 .969 2.40
1922 SLB AL 32 CF 17 16 16 38 33 2 3 2 .921 2.06 .968 2.70
1923 SLB AL 33 LF 145 145 144 368 333 23 12 5 .967 2.46 .966 2.35 MVP-15
1923 SLB AL 33 OF 145 145 144 368 333 23 12 5 .967 2.46 .965 2.38 MVP-15
1924 SLB AL 34 LF 110 110 105 282 259 13 10 1 .965 2.47 .964 2.34 MVP-22
1924 SLB AL 34 OF 109 110 105 279 257 13 9 2 .968 2.48 .970 2.39 MVP-22
1925 SLB AL 35 LF 102 102 99 265 242 11 12 4 .955 2.48 .958 2.33
1925 SLB AL 35 OF 102 102 99 265 242 11 12 4 .955 2.48 .965 2.43
1926 SLB AL 36 OF 92 87 87 212 189 12 11 2 .948 2.18 .966 2.34
1926 SLB AL 36 LF 90 87 87 211 188 12 11 2 .948 2.22 .965 2.30
1926 SLB AL 36 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.60
1926 SLB AL 36 CF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.70
1927 SLB AL 37 OF 113 112 109 285 260 15 10 4 .965 2.43 .964 2.35
1927 SLB AL 37 LF 110 109 106 276 253 15 8 4 .971 2.44 .967 2.38
1927 SLB AL 37 CF 4 3 3 9 7 0 2 0 .778 1.75 .966 2.70
1928 BOS AL 38 LF 127 123 114 271 253 10 8 0 .970 2.07 .974 2.30
1928 BOS AL 38 OF 127 123 114 272 254 10 8 0 .971 2.08 .973 2.36
1929 BOS AL 39 OF 39 28 21 81 75 3 3 2 .963 2.00 .966 2.42
1929 BOS AL 39 CF 30 26 19 71 67 1 3 0 .958 2.27 .970 2.89
1929 BOS AL 39 LF 11 2 2 10 8 2 0 1 1.000 0.91 .964 2.39
1929 BOS AL 39 1B 2 0 0 8 8 0 0 1 1.000 4.00 .992 10.20
1929 BOS AL 39 RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00
13 Seasons OF 1298 1210 1173 3252 2948 167 137 43 .958 2.40 .964 2.33 1141-169-1
11 Seasons (incomplete) LF 1079 1060 1032 2689 2449 138 102 31 .962 2.40 .965 2.35
7 Seasons (incomplete) CF 160 150 141 432 384 19 29 6 .933 2.52 .965 2.67
1 Season 1B 2 0 0 8 8 0 0 1 1.000 4.00 .992 10.20
1 Season RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.60
14 Seasons TOT 1301 1210 1173 3260 2956 167 137 44 .958 2.40 .964 2.35 1141-169-1
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-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
1915 CIN NL 25 71 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 8 0 62 0
1916 CIN NL 26 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 10 0
1918 SLB AL 28 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1919 SLB AL 29 65 61 65 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 63 0 63 0 2 0
1920 SLB AL 30 141 138 141 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 94 44 0 138 0 3 0
1921 SLB AL 31 146 143 146 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 145 0 1 0
1922 SLB AL 32 153 153 153 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 137 17 0 153 0 0 0
1923 SLB AL 33 147 145 147 145 0 0 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 145 0 2 0
1924 SLB AL 34 115 110 115 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 110 0 0 110 0 5 0
1925 SLB AL 35 102 102 102 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 102 0 0 102 0 0 0
1926 SLB AL 36 108 87 108 92 0 0 0 1 0 0 90 1 0 91 0 16 0
1927 SLB AL 37 131 112 131 113 0 0 0 0 0 0 110 4 0 113 0 18 0
1928 BOS AL 38 133 123 133 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 127 0 0 127 0 6 0
1929 BOS AL 39 74 28 74 41 0 0 2 0 0 0 11 30 1 39 0 33 0
14 Seasons 1398 1202 1398 1229 0 0 2 1 0 0 1133 168 1 1298 0 86 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
1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1958 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1923 AL (15, 6%)
1924 AL (22, 2%)
0.08 Career Shares (982nd)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  145 (3rd)
1922 AL  137 (3rd)
1923 AL  145 (3rd)
1924 AL  110 (5th)
1926 AL  90 (4th)
1927 AL  110 (5th)
1928 AL  127 (2nd)
Career  1,079 (54th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  331 (3rd)
1922 AL  340 (2nd)
1923 AL  333 (2nd)
1924 AL  259 (5th)
1926 AL  188 (5th)
1927 AL  253 (5th)
1928 AL  253 (4th)
Career  2,449 (29th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  24 (1st)
1922 AL  15 (4th)
1923 AL  23 (2nd)
1924 AL  13 (3rd)
1926 AL  12 (3rd)
1927 AL  15 (2nd)
1928 AL  10 (4th)
Career  138 (6th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  26 (1st)
1922 AL  9 (4th)
1923 AL  12 (2nd)
1924 AL  10 (3rd)
1925 AL  12 (5th)
1926 AL  11 (3rd)
1928 AL  8 (2nd)
Career  102 (6th)

Double Plays Turned as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1920 AL  7 (1st)
1921 AL  5 (1st)
1923 AL  5 (1st)
1925 AL  4 (2nd)
1926 AL  2 (5th)
1927 AL  4 (2nd)
Career  31 (3rd)

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1919 AL  10 (5th)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1919 AL  12 (4th)
1920 AL  9 (4th)

Double Plays Turned as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1919 AL  3 (4th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1922 AL  153 (3rd)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1922 AL  372 (3rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1921 AL  24 (4th)
1923 AL  23 (4th)
Career  167 (91st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1920 AL  14 (4th)
1921 AL  26 (1st)
1923 AL  12 (4th)
Career  137 (93rd)

Double Plays Turned as OF s c a p y
1915 NL  4 (5th)
1920 AL  7 (3rd)
1921 AL  5 (4th)
1922 AL  4 (4th)
1923 AL  5 (5th)
Career  43 (53rd)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1920 AL  2.51 (1st)
1921 AL  2.45 (3rd)
1922 AL  2.59 (2nd)
1923 AL  2.46 (2nd)
1924 AL  2.47 (2nd)
1925 AL  2.48 (3rd)
1926 AL  2.22 (3rd)
1927 AL  2.44 (4th)
Career  2.40 (6th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1922 AL  .975 (3rd)
1923 AL  .967 (3rd)
1924 AL  .965 (3rd)
1927 AL  .971 (2nd)
1928 AL  .970 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1920 AL  2.52 (5th)

Oldest s c a p y
1928 AL  born 1890-06-28 (9th)
1929 AL  born 1890-06-28 (10th)

             

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