Bill James
1911–1919 · bats B / throws R · Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns
204G
.142AVG
.209OBP
.165SLG
More career statistics
51H
0HR
12RBI
1SB
64–71W–L
1,179.2IP
408K
3.20ERA
146GS
4SV
Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.
Why official totals and the game-record sums differ
The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.
| Statistic | MLB official | Recorded game sum |
|---|---|---|
| Batting · At bats | 358 | 357 |
| Batting · Caught stealing | 2 | 3 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 129 | 135 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 413 | 414 |
| Batting · RBI | 12 | 13 |
| Batting · Walks | 27 | 29 |
| Pitching · Batters faced | 4,951 | 5,132 |
| Pitching · p er | 420 | 433 |
| Pitching · p h | 1,110 | 1,125 |
| Pitching · p ipouts | 3,539 | 3,529 |
| Pitching · p k | 408 | 411 |
| Pitching · p r | 559 | 575 |
| Pitching · p w | 578 | 584 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 204 | 413 | 358 | 25 | 51 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 27 | 129 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 59 | .142 | .209 | .165 | .374 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,179.7 | 203 | 146 | 68 | 64 | 71 | 4 | 1,110 | 559 | 420 | 16 | 578 | 408 | 0 | 0 | 3.20 | 1.431 |
Streaks
4longest hitting streak · 1917-06-19 to 1917-06-30
8longest on-base streak
The two rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | 10 walks allowed | 1914-04-24 | 1 in 3,978 pitcher-games | box score ↗ |
| 41 | 12 innings pitched | 1914-07-03 | 1 in 613 pitcher-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 90 | 161 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 42 | .132 | .217 | .140 |
| Away | 114 | 253 | 34 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 93 | .149 | .178 | .180 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 19 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 | .000 | .051 | .000 |
| May | 31 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | .179 | .182 | .205 |
| June | 38 | 85 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 35 | .171 | .176 | .197 |
| July | 50 | 102 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 32 | .131 | .216 | .143 |
| August | 32 | 73 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 20 | .167 | .219 | .233 |
| September | 29 | 62 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 17 | .185 | .258 | .185 |
| October | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .000 | .111 | .000 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland-guardians | 31 | 65 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 24 | .136 | .169 | .153 |
| boston-red-sox | 30 | 59 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19 | .083 | .169 | .104 |
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 30 | 52 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 20 | .159 | .231 | .159 |
| chicago-white-sox | 30 | 57 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 14 | .182 | .193 | .218 |
| new-york-yankees | 28 | 61 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 13 | .222 | .279 | .241 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 28 | 67 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 29 | .120 | .194 | .160 |
| detroit-tigers | 15 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .077 | .107 | .115 |
| st-louis-browns | 12 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .095 | .120 | .095 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 |  Cleveland Guardians | 8 | 17 | 1 | – | – | – | .059 | 51 | 21 |
| 1912 | Cleveland Guardians | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 13 | 5 |
| 1914 |  St. Louis Browns | 44 | 89 | 10 | – | 2 | 1 | .112 | 283 | 107 |
| 1915 | Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns | 46 | 63 | 14 | – | 5 | – | .222 | 237 | 83 |
| 1916 |  Detroit Tigers | 30 | 44 | 3 | – | 2 | – | .068 | 151 | 61 |
| 1917 | Detroit Tigers | 34 | 56 | 12 | – | 1 | – | .214 | 197 | 63 |
| 1918 | Detroit Tigers | 19 | 46 | 5 | – | 1 | – | .109 | 122 | 45 |
| 1919 | Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers | 20 | 39 | 6 | – | 2 | – | .154 | 119 | 26 |