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Bill Knickerbocker
William Hart Knickerbocker

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 5' 11", Weight 170 lb.

Debut April 12, 1933
Final Game September 17, 1942
Born December 29, 1911 in Los Angeles, CA
Died September 8, 1963 in Sebastopol, CA

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Batting  Glossary / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1933 21 CLE AL  80  279   20   63  16  3   2   32   1  4  11  30  .226  .255  .326   50   91  13           0    
 1934 22 CLE AL 146  593   82  188  32  5   4   67   6  6  25  40  .317  .347  .408   94  242  12           2     MVP-19
 1935 23 CLE AL 132  540   77  161  34  5   0   55   2 12  27  31  .298  .332  .380   82  205  10           0    
 1936 24 CLE AL 155  618   81  182  35  3   8   73   5 14  56  30  .294  .354  .400   83  247  11           1    
 1937 25 SLB AL 121  491   53  128  29  5   4   61   3  2  30  32  .261  .303  .365   67  179   9           0    
 1938 26 NYY AL  46  128   15   32   8  3   1   21   0  0  11  10  .250  .309  .383   72   49   4           0    
 1939 27 NYY AL   6   13    2    2   1  0   0    1   0  0   0   0  .154  .154  .231   -3    3   0           0   1
 1940 28 NYY AL  45  124   17   30   8  1   1   10   1  1  14   8  .242  .333  .347   80   43   4           3   3
 1941 29 CHW AL  89  343   51   84  23  2   7   29   6  5  41  27  .245  .329  .385   89  132  10           2   4
 1942 30 PHA AL  87  289   25   73  12  0   1   19   1  2  29  30  .253  .323  .304   78   88   9           1  11
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 10 Seasons     907 3418  423  943 198 27  28  368  25 46 244 238  .276  .326  .374   79 1279  82   0   0   9  19
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        610   76  168  35  5   5   66   4  8  44  43  .276  .326  .374   79  228  15   0   0   2   3
 Career High    155  618   82  188  35  5   8   73   6 14  56  40  .317  .354  .408   94  247  13   0   0   3  11
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1933 21 CLE AL  303  233   22   2.5   110| .226  .287| .255  .359| .326  .413| .581  .772|  50  .241 -21.8  -2.1  20%
 1934 22 CLE AL  632  423   82   5.2   112| .317  .288| .347  .362| .408  .415| .755  .777|  94  .513  -6.9  -0.7  50%
 1935 23 CLE AL  577  401   64   4.3   113| .298  .290| .332  .363| .380  .419| .712  .782|  82  .427 -15.6  -1.5  14%
 1936 24 CLE AL  686  461   83   4.8   124| .294  .302| .354  .379| .400  .444| .754  .823|  83  .434 -17.1  -1.5  26%
 1937 25 SLB AL  530  374   54   3.8   117| .261  .290| .303  .365| .365  .432| .668  .797|  67  .357 -26.1  -2.4  60%
 1938 26 NYY AL  143  100   15   3.9   118| .250  .290| .309  .369| .383  .432| .692  .801|  72  .370  -6.1  -0.6   0%
 1939 27 NYY AL   13   12    0   0.0   113| .154  .285| .154  .360| .231  .422| .385  .782|  -3  .000  -2.0  -0.2   0%
 1940 28 NYY AL  145  102   14   3.6   107| .242  .274| .333  .347| .347  .416| .680  .763|  80  .362  -3.1  -0.3  50%
 1941 29 CHW AL  396  278   42   4.0   106| .245  .274| .329  .351| .385  .404| .714  .755|  89  .428  -5.1  -0.5  54%
 1942 30 PHA AL  328  238   28   3.2    94| .253  .264| .323  .339| .304  .370| .627  .709|  78  .381  -8.0  -0.8  33%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 10 Seasons     3753 2622  404   4.1   113| .276  .287| .326  .362| .374  .419| .700  .781|  79  .408 -111.9 -10.6  35%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1933 21 CLE AL SS 80 151 233 25 37 .939 .942 4.80 5.03 1934 22 CLE AL SS 146 262 451 28 106 .962 .951 4.88 5.07 1935 23 CLE AL SS 128 247 453 32 82 .956 .957 5.47 5.18 1936 24 CLE AL SS 155 313 486 40 97 .952 .950 5.15 5.22 1937 25 SLB AL SS 115 205 368 25 59 .958 .955 4.98 5.06 2B 6 15 11 1 5 .963 .974 4.33 5.28 1938 26 NYY AL 2B 34 78 86 3 23 .982 .967 4.82 5.32 SS 3 4 3 0 2 1.000 .959 2.33 5.00 1939 27 NYY AL 2B 2 5 6 0 1 1.000 .965 5.50 5.15 SS 2 1 6 0 0 1.000 .946 3.50 4.70 1940 28 NYY AL SS 19 22 43 1 12 .985 .949 3.42 4.53 3B 17 11 34 5 6 .900 .938 2.65 3.12 1941 29 CHW AL 2B 88 204 221 13 58 .970 .967 4.83 5.18 1942 30 PHA AL 2B 81 178 220 15 45 .964 .969 4.91 5.39 SS 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 4.80
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1937 25 SLB AL 2B 6 15 11 1 5 .963 .974 4.33 5.28 1938 26 NYY AL 2B 34 78 86 3 23 .982 .967 4.82 5.32 1939 27 NYY AL 2B 2 5 6 0 1 1.000 .965 5.50 5.15 1941 29 CHW AL 2B 88 204 221 13 58 .970 .967 4.83 5.18 1942 30 PHA AL 2B 81 178 220 15 45 .964 .969 4.91 5.39 1940 28 NYY AL 3B 17 11 34 5 6 .900 .938 2.65 3.12 1933 21 CLE AL SS 80 151 233 25 37 .939 .942 4.80 5.03 1934 22 CLE AL SS 146 262 451 28 106 .962 .951 4.88 5.07 1935 23 CLE AL SS 128 247 453 32 82 .956 .957 5.47 5.18 1936 24 CLE AL SS 155 313 486 40 97 .952 .950 5.15 5.22 1937 25 SLB AL SS 115 205 368 25 59 .958 .955 4.98 5.06 1938 26 NYY AL SS 3 4 3 0 2 1.000 .959 2.33 5.00 1939 27 NYY AL SS 2 1 6 0 0 1.000 .946 3.50 4.70 1940 28 NYY AL SS 19 22 43 1 12 .985 .949 3.42 4.53 1942 30 PHA AL SS 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 4.80
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Position Total SS 649 1205 2043 152 395 .955 .952 5.00 5.10 2B 211 480 544 32 132 .970 .968 4.85 5.29 3B 17 11 34 5 6 .900 .938 2.65 3.12 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Overall Total 877 1696 2621 189 533 .958 .955 4.92 5.11
An Important note about our fielding stats

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1934-AL-19-0.02
Car-1314-0.02 shares

Games
1936 AL-155-1

At Bats
1934 AL-593-9

Hits
1934 AL-188-9

Singles
1934 AL-147-2

Hit By Pitch
1940 AL-3-8

Sac. Hits
1933 AL-13-8
1934 AL-12-8
1936 AL-11-8
1941 AL-10-9

Caught Stealing
1935 AL-12-2
1936 AL-14-1

Outs
1936 AL-461-5

Youngest Player
1933 AL-21-8

   

Black Ink: Batting - 1 (722) (Average HOFer ≈ 27)
Gray Ink: Batting - 5 (1714) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 4.0 (2772) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 3.5 (1648) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


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  7. Dick Groat (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Johnny Ray (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

January 17, 1937: Traded by the Cleveland Indians with Oral Hildebrand and Joe Vosmik to the St. Louis Browns for Ivy Andrews, Lyn Lary, and Moose Solters.

February 15, 1938: Traded by the St. Louis Browns to the New York Yankees for Don Heffner and $10,000.

December 31, 1940: Traded by the New York Yankees to the Chicago White Sox for Ken Silvestri.

April 3, 1942: Selected off waivers by the Philadelphia Athletics from the Chicago White Sox.

December 5, 1942: Released by the Philadelphia Athletics.

Before 1943 Season: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.

May 9, 1943: Released by the New York Yankees.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
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