Bill Killefer

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-10, 170lb (178cm, 77kg)

Born: October 10, 1887 in Bloomingdale, MI us

Died: July 3, 1960 in Elsmere, DE

Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Paw Paw, MI

High School: Paw Paw HS (Paw Paw, MI)

Schools: Sacred Heart College (Watertown, WI), St. Edward's University (Austin, TX)

Debut: September 13, 1909 (Age 21-338d, 3,232nd in major league history)
vs. DET 3 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 SB

Last Game: October 1, 1921 (Age 33-356d)
vs. CIN 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1910 season

Full Name: William Killefer

Nicknames: Reindeer Bill

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Relatives: Brother of Red Killefer

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

9.8

3150

751

.238

237

RBI

240

OBP

.273

SLG

.283

OPS

.556

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1915 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1915 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 14	PHI	@	BSN	W,3-0	CG	33	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
2	2	Apr 15	PHI	@	BSN	W,7-1	CG	0	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
3	3	Apr 17	PHI	@	NYG	W,7-1	CG	36	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
4	4	Apr 19	PHI	@	NYG	W,3-0	CG	36	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
5	5	Apr 20	PHI	@	NYG	W,5-2	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
6	6	Apr 21	PHI	@	NYG	W,6-1	CG	32	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
7	7	Apr 22	PHI		BSN	W,8-4	CG	35	9.0	7	2	0	9	0
8	8	Apr 23	PHI		BSN	W,2-1	CG	37	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
9	9	Apr 24	PHI		BSN	L,2-10	GS	15	3.0	1	1	0	2	0
10	10	Apr 26	PHI		BSN	W,7-4	CG	36	9.0	12	0	0	12	0
11	11	Apr 27	PHI		BRO	W,5-2	CG	40	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
12	12	Apr 28	PHI		BRO	W,3-0	CG	34	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
13	13	Apr 29	PHI		BRO	L,4-7	CG	43	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
14	14	Apr 30	PHI		BRO	L,1-2	CG	37	9.0	3	5	0	8	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
15	15	May 1	PHI		NYG	W,4-2	CG	33	9.0	4	4	0	8	0
16	18 (2)	May 6	PHI	@	BRO	W,3-1	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
17	19	May 8	PHI	@	BRO	L,2-3	CG	34	8.0	6	1	0	7	0
18	20	May 10	PHI	@	BRO	L,0-5	GS	13	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
19	23 (2)	May 14	PHI		PIT	W,5-3	CG	37	9.0	6	2	1	9	0
20	24	May 15	PHI		STL	W,11-2	GS	27	7.0	9	1	0	10	0
21	25	May 17	PHI		STL	W,5-3	CG	34	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
22	26	May 18	PHI		STL	L,2-5	GS	0		3	0	0	3	0
23	27	May 19	PHI		STL	L,0-3	CG	36	9.0	10	3	2	15	1
24	28	May 20	PHI		CIN	L,2-6	CG	37	9.0	7	2	0	9	0
25	29	May 25	PHI		CHC	W,3-0	CG	31	9.0	8	4	0	12	0
26	30	May 27	PHI		CHC	W,8-5	CG	38	9.0	4	0	1	5	0
27	31	May 28 (1)	PHI	@	BSN	L,2-5	CG	35	8.0	7	1	1	9	0
28	32	May 28 (2)	PHI	@	BSN	L,4-5	CG	40	8.0	6	0	0	6	0
29	33	May 29	PHI	@	BSN	L,4-9	GS	28	5.0	6	1	1	8	0
30	34	May 31 (1)	PHI	@	BSN	L,1-2	CG	32	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
31	35	May 31 (2)	PHI	@	BSN	W,5-2	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
32	36	Jun 1	PHI	@	BRO	L,4-5	GS	26	7.0	3	0	0	3	0
33	37	Jun 2 (1)	PHI	@	BRO	L,2-7	GS	26	5.0	3	1	0	4	0
34	39 (1)	Jun 3	PHI	@	BRO	W,2-1	CG	35	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
35	40	Jun 5	PHI	@	STL	W,3-0	CG	29	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
36	41	Jun 6	PHI	@	STL	L,1-3	CG	0	8.0	4	0	1	5	0
37	44 (2)	Jun 9	PHI	@	CHC	W,4-3	CG	43	11.0	8	0	0	8	0
38	45	Jun 11	PHI	@	CHC	L,0-2	GF	6	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
39	46	Jun 12	PHI	@	CHC	W,13-0	GS	28	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
40	47	Jun 14	PHI	@	PIT	W,4-1	CG	39	11.0	13	2	0	15	0
41	48	Jun 16	PHI	@	PIT	L,1-2	CG	30	8.0	5	3	0	8	0
42	49	Jun 17	PHI	@	CIN	L,1-2	CG	31	8.2	6	0	0	6	0
43	50	Jun 19	PHI	@	CIN	W,4-1	CG	32	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
44	51	Jun 20	PHI	@	CIN	L,1-2	CG	0	8.0	3	3	0	6	1
45	52	Jun 21	PHI	@	PIT	L,3-4	CG	49	12.1	5	2	0	7	0
46	53	Jun 22	PHI	@	NYG	T,1-1	CG	31	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
47	54	Jun 23	PHI	@	NYG	W,2-1	CG	39	11.0	9	3	0	12	0
48	55	Jun 24	PHI	@	NYG	L,5-13	GS	25	4.0	2	2	1	5	0
49	56	Jun 25	PHI		BRO	L,2-4	CG	38	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
50	57	Jun 26	PHI		BRO	W,4-0	CG	28	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
51	59 (1)	Jun 29	PHI		BRO	W,5-4	CG	34	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
52	60	Jun 30	PHI		BSN	W,8-5	CG	39	9.0	8	2	0	10	1
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
53	61	Jul 1	PHI		BSN	W,2-1	CG	35	9.0	11	2	0	13	0
54	62	Jul 3 (1)	PHI		BSN	W,4-1	CG	31	9.0	6	2	0	8	0
55	63	Jul 3 (2)	PHI		BSN	L,3-5	CG	41	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
56	64	Jul 5	PHI		NYG	W,2-0	CG	28	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
57	65	Jul 6	PHI		NYG	L,1-5	GS	16	3.0	2	2	0	4	0
58	66	Jul 7 (1)	PHI		NYG	L,4-5	CG	39	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
59	68 (1)	Jul 8	PHI		PIT	L,0-2	CG	33	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
60	69	Jul 9	PHI		PIT	W,2-1	CG	31	9.0	9	1	0	10	0
61	71 (1)	Jul 12 (1)	PHI		PIT	L,1-2	GS	32	8.0	6	1	1	8	0
62	73 (1)	Jul 13	PHI		STL	W,8-0	GS	0		4	2	0	6	0
63	75 (1)	Jul 15	PHI		STL	W,4-3	GF	11	3.0	2	0	0	2	0
64	76	Jul 17	PHI		CHC	L,0-4	CG	35	9.0	8	2	0	10	0
65	77	Jul 19	PHI		CHC	W,5-4	CG	33	9.0	6	4	1	11	0
66	79 (1)	Jul 21	PHI		CHC	W,1-0	CG	20	5.1	4	0	0	4	0
67	80	Jul 22 (1)	PHI		CIN	L,1-6	CG	38	9.0	7	0	0	7	1
68	82 (1)	Jul 23	PHI		CIN	L,2-3	CG	37	10.0	10	2	0	12	0
69	83	Jul 24 (1)	PHI		CIN	W,4-0	CG	34	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
70	85 (1)	Jul 25	PHI	@	CIN	W,4-2	CG	0	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
71	86	Jul 26	PHI	@	CIN	W,6-2	CG	0	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
72	87	Jul 27	PHI	@	CIN	L,3-4	CG	0	8.0	1	1	1	3	0
73	88	Jul 28	PHI	@	STL	L,1-3	CG	0	8.0	8	2	2	12	0
74	89	Jul 29	PHI	@	STL	W,3-1	CG	0	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
75	90	Jul 31 (1)	PHI	@	STL	L,1-2	CG	0	8.1	4	1	1	6	0
76	91	Jul 31 (2)	PHI	@	STL	W,8-0	CG	0	9.0	7	2	0	9	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
77	92	Aug 1	PHI	@	CHC	L,1-2	CG	0	9.1	5	0	0	5	0
78	93	Aug 2	PHI	@	CHC	L,1-4	GS	22	5.0	0	1	0	1	0
79	94	Aug 5	PHI	@	PIT	L,0-1	CG	33	8.1	8	1	1	10	0
80	95	Aug 6	PHI	@	PIT	W,5-4	CG	34	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
81	96	Aug 7 (1)	PHI	@	PIT	L,0-9	GS	16	3.0	3	0	1	4	0
82	97	Aug 7 (2)	PHI	@	PIT	L,0-6	CG	34	8.0	3	2	0	5	0
83	98	Aug 8	PHI	@	CIN	W,14-6	GS	0		4	1	0	5	0
84	99	Aug 9	PHI	@	CIN	L,4-5	CG	0	11.1	6	1	0	7	0
85	100	Aug 13	PHI		BSN	W,5-3	CG	35	9.0	7	2	1	10	0
86	101	Aug 14	PHI		BSN	W,9-0	GS	28	7.0	6	0	0	6	0
87	102	Aug 16	PHI		BSN	W,5-0	CG	33	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
88	103	Aug 17	PHI		CIN	L,0-2	GS	0	7.0	7	0	0	7	0
89	104	Aug 18	PHI		PIT	L,4-8	GF	9	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
90	105	Aug 19	PHI		PIT	L,3-8	GS	31	6.0	3	0	0	3	0
91	106	Aug 20	PHI		PIT	W,4-3	CG	45	11.0	4	0	0	4	0
92	107	Aug 21 (1)	PHI		CHC	W,7-5	CG	39	9.0	10	0	1	11	0
93	109 (1)	Aug 23 (1)	PHI		CHC	L,3-4	CG	34	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
94	111 (1)	Aug 24	PHI		CHC	L,1-6	GS	20	4.0	5	1	0	6	0
95	112	Aug 25 (1)	PHI		CIN	W,8-0	CG	35	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
96	114 (1)	Aug 26	PHI		CIN	W,4-1	CG	32	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
97	116 (1)	Aug 30	PHI		STL	W,4-3	CG	39	10.0	4	3	0	7	0
98	117	Aug 31 (1)	PHI		STL	W,3-2	CG	32	9.0	7	3	0	10	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
99	121 (3)	Sep 2 (2)	PHI	@	NYG	W,2-0	CG	33	9.0	8	2	0	10	0
100	122	Sep 3	PHI	@	NYG	L,0-2	CG	30	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
101	123	Sep 4	PHI	@	NYG	W,3-2	CG	39	10.0	5	1	0	6	0
102	124	Sep 6 (1)	PHI	@	BRO	L,3-6	CG	37	8.0	5	1	1	7	0
103	125	Sep 6 (2)	PHI	@	BRO	L,3-7	GS	27	5.0	3	3	0	6	1
104	126	Sep 7	PHI	@	BRO	L,1-7	GS	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
							104gm		832.0	539	126	19	684	6