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Bill Zuber
William Henry Zuber (Goober)

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2" , Weight: 195 lb.

Born: March 26, 1913 in Middle Amana, IA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1936
Final Game: September 23, 1947
Died: November 2, 1982 in Cedar Rapids, IA
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Standard Pitching

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1936	23	CLE	AL	1	1	.500	6.59	2	2	0	1	0	0	13.2	14	11	10	0	15	5	0	0	0	67	78	2.122	9.2	0.0	9.9	3.3	0.33

1938	25	CLE	AL	0	3	.000	5.02	15	0	6	0	0	1	28.2	33	18	16	0	20	14	0	0	1	134	92	1.849	10.4	0.0	6.3	4.4	0.70
1939	26	CLE	AL	2	0	1.000	5.97	16	1	10	0	0	0	31.2	41	24	21	2	19	16	1	0	0	152	74	1.895	11.7	0.6	5.4	4.5	0.84
1940	27	CLE	AL	1	1	.500	5.62	17	0	9	0	0	0	24.0	25	17	15	3	14	12	0	0	0	112	75	1.625	9.4	1.1	5.3	4.5	0.86
1941	28	WSH	AL	6	4	.600	5.42	36	7	19	1	0	2	96.1	110	63	58	5	61	51	2	0	5	446	75	1.775	10.3	0.5	5.7	4.8	0.84
1942	29	WSH	AL	9	9	.500	3.84	37	7	19	3	1	1	126.2	115	66	54	5	82	64	0	1	5	568	95	1.555	8.2	0.4	5.8	4.5	0.78
1943	30	NYY	AL	8	4	.667	3.89	20	13	2	7	0	1	118.0	100	54	51	3	74	57	0	0	2	512	83	1.475	7.6	0.2	5.6	4.3	0.77
1944	31	NYY	AL	5	7	.417	4.21	22	13	5	2	1	0	107.0	101	54	50	5	54	59	1	0	3	458	83	1.449	8.5	0.4	4.5	5.0	1.09
1945	32	NYY	AL	5	11	.313	3.19	21	14	5	7	0	1	127.0	121	50	45	2	56	50	0	0	5	529	109	1.394	8.6	0.1	4.0	3.5	0.89
1946	33	TOT	AL	5	2	.714	3.47	18	7	7	2	1	0	62.1	47	29	24	6	42	32	0	0	3	268	106	1.428	6.8	0.9	6.1	4.6	0.76
1946	33	NYY	AL	0	1	.000	12.71	3	0	1	0	0	0	5.2	10	9	8	2	3	3	0	0	1	29	27	2.294	15.9	3.2	4.8	4.8	1.00
1946	33	BOS	AL	5	1	.833	2.54	15	7	6	2	1	0	56.2	37	20	16	4	39	29	0	0	2	239	145	1.341	5.9	0.6	6.2	4.6	0.74
1947	34	BOS	AL	1	0	1.000	5.33	20	1	8	0	0	0	50.2	60	32	30	4	31	23	0	0	4	230	73	1.796	10.7	0.7	5.5	4.1	0.74
11 Seasons				43	42	.506	4.28	224	65	90	23	3	6	786.0	767	418	374	35	468	383	4	1	28	3476	87	1.571	8.8	0.4	5.4	4.4	0.82
162 Game Avg.				10	10	.506	4.28	53	15	21	5	1	1	185	180	98	88	8	110	90	1	0	7	818	87	1.571	8.8	0.4	5.4	4.4	0.82

CLE (4 yrs)				4	5	.444	5.69	50	3	25	1	0	1	98.0	113	70	62	5	68	47	1	0	1	465	79	1.847	10.4	0.5	6.2	4.3	0.69
NYY (4 yrs)				18	23	.439	3.88	66	40	13	16	1	2	357.2	332	167	154	12	187	169	1	0	11	1528	88	1.451	8.4	0.3	4.7	4.3	0.90
WSH (2 yrs)				15	13	.536	4.52	73	14	38	4	1	3	223.0	225	129	112	10	143	115	2	1	10	1014	85	1.650	9.1	0.4	5.8	4.6	0.80
BOS (2 yrs)				6	1	.857	3.86	35	8	14	2	1	0	107.1	97	52	46	8	70	52	0	0	6	469	98	1.556	8.1	0.7	5.9	4.4	0.74

Postseason Pitching

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1946	33	BOS	AL	WS	L	STL	0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	9	2.000	13.5	0.0	4.5	4.5	1.00
1 WS							0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	9	2.000	13.5	0.0	4.5	4.5	1.00

Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	Pos
1936	23	CLE	AL	2	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-2	1		0	0	/1

1938	25	CLE	AL	15	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	1	1
1939	26	CLE	AL	16	5	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.600	.800	100	3	0	0	0	1
1940	27	CLE	AL	17	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	76	1	0	0	0	1
1941	28	WSH	AL	36	29	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.037	.000	.037	-89	0	0	0	2	1
1942	29	WSH	AL	37	43	39	5	6	3	1	0	3	0	0	1	7	.154	.175	.282	.457	28	11	2	0	3	1
1943	30	NYY	AL	20	47	38	1	7	1	2	0	2	0	0	4	14	.184	.262	.316	.578	68	12	2	0	5	1
1944	31	NYY	AL	22	35	31	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.129	.129	.129	.258	-27	4	1	0	4	1
1945	32	NYY	AL	21	45	42	1	7	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	13	.167	.186	.214	.400	14	9	1	0	2	1
1946	33	TOT	AL	18	22	20	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	7	.100	.143	.100	.243	-33	2	0	0	1	1
1946	33	NYY	AL	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	/1
1946	33	BOS	AL	15	20	18	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	6	.111	.158	.111	.269	-26	2	0	0	1	1
1947	34	BOS	AL	20	17	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.154	.267	.154	.421	15	2	2	0	2	1
11 Seasons				224	259	229	10	31	4	5	0	11	0	0	10	66	.135	.172	.197	.368	2	45	8	0	20
162 Game Avg.				162	187	166	7	22	3	4	0	8	0	0	7	48	.135	.172	.197	.368	2	33		0	14

CLE (4 yrs)				50	21	20	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	.150	.150	.250	.400	-0	5	0	0	1
NYY (4 yrs)				66	129	113	3	18	1	3	0	6	0	0	5	38	.159	.195	.221	.416	19	25	4	0	11
WSH (2 yrs)				73	72	65	5	6	3	1	0	3	0	0	2	15	.092	.119	.169	.289	-21	11	2	0	5
BOS (2 yrs)				35	37	31	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	9	.129	.206	.129	.335	-8	4	2	0	3

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1946	33	BOS	AL	WS	STL	L	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
1 WS							1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1936	CLE	AL	23	P	2	2	0	2	0	1	1.000	1.00	.950	1.05
1938	CLE	AL	25	P	15	6	2	3	1	1	.833	0.33	.950	1.12
1939	CLE	AL	26	P	16	9	0	9	0	1	1.000	0.56	.944	0.98
1940	CLE	AL	27	P	17	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	0.18	.967	1.05
1941	WSH	AL	28	P	36	16	5	10	1	0	.938	0.42	.962	1.16
1942	WSH	AL	29	P	37	18	6	11	1	3	.944	0.46	.956	1.30
1943	NYY	AL	30	P	20	19	1	18	0	1	1.000	0.95	.963	1.27
1944	NYY	AL	31	P	22	23	6	16	1	0	.957	1.00	.961	1.14
1945	NYY	AL	32	P	21	23	3	19	1	2	.957	1.05	.957	1.28
1946	TOT	AL	33	P	18	13	3	10	0	0	1.000	0.72	.946	1.01
1946	NYY	AL	33	P	3	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		1.00
1946	BOS	AL	33	P	15	13	3	10	0	0	1.000	0.87	.946	1.01
1947	BOS	AL	34	P	20	9	2	7	0	0	1.000	0.45	.956	0.95
11 Seasons				P	224	141	29	107	5	9	.965	0.61	.957	1.15
11 Seasons				TOT	224	141	29	107	5	9	.965	0.61	.921	1.15

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Games Played s c a p y
1941 AL--36--7th
1942 AL--37--7th

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1943 AL--74--8th

Wild Pitches s c a p y
1942 AL--5--6th
1945 AL--5--6th

Games Finished s c a p y
1941 AL--19--7th
1942 AL--19--5th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink Pitching - 2 (2165), Average HOFer ≈ 185

Hall of Fame Monitor Pitching - 1 (1872), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Pitching - 4 (1498), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

April 21, 1941: Purchased by the Washington Senators from the Cleveland Indians.

January 29, 1943: Traded by the Washington Senators with cash to the New York Yankees for Milo Candini and Jerry Priddy.

June 18, 1946: Purchased by the Boston Red Sox from the New York Yankees.

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Uniforms

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Name and misspellings: William Bill billy Goober Henry Will William Zuber

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Gray Ink	Pitching - 2 (2165), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 1 (1872), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 4 (1498), Average HOFer ≈ 50