Bill Sweeney
1928–1931 · bats R / throws R · ALS, ASG, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers
308G
.286AVG
.314OBP
.370SLG
More career statistics
300H
5HR
107RBI
22SB
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 · Caught stealing | 24 | 23 |
| Batting · Hits | 300 | 299 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 73 | 74 |
| Batting · Runs | 127 | 128 |
| Batting · RBI | 107 | 112 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 308 | 1,112 | 1,050 | 127 | 300 | 58 | 8 | 5 | 107 | 44 | 73 | 22 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 389 | .286 | .314 | .370 | .684 |
Streaks
14longest hitting streak · 1931-09-05 to 1931-09-27
14longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 5 hits | 1931-08-24 | 1 in 1,624 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 15 | 2 stolen bases | 1928-04-19 | 1 in 199 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 10 | 2 doubles | 1928-04-24 | 1 in 99 player-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 153 | 521 | 153 | 3 | 56 | 14 | 36 | .307 | .321 | .406 |
| Away | 155 | 591 | 146 | 2 | 56 | 30 | 38 | .264 | .298 | .337 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 24 | 81 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | .189 | .247 | .284 |
| May | 61 | 229 | 65 | 3 | 22 | 5 | 15 | .302 | .306 | .414 |
| June | 59 | 215 | 62 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 13 | .305 | .330 | .409 |
| July | 67 | 221 | 63 | 0 | 26 | 3 | 13 | .290 | .299 | .336 |
| August | 62 | 247 | 59 | 0 | 29 | 14 | 17 | .258 | .296 | .336 |
| September | 35 | 119 | 36 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 7 | .321 | .361 | .402 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland-guardians | 44 | 143 | 43 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 12 | .323 | .357 | .391 |
| chicago-white-sox | 44 | 179 | 47 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 10 | .280 | .296 | .369 |
| st-louis-browns | 43 | 167 | 48 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 6 | .308 | .335 | .410 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 43 | 146 | 46 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 13 | .322 | .329 | .434 |
| new-york-yankees | 43 | 160 | 40 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 18 | .268 | .306 | .329 |
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 42 | 132 | 29 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 7 | .238 | .265 | .311 |
| detroit-tigers | 36 | 132 | 37 | 2 | 22 | 3 | 5 | .289 | .303 | .391 |
| boston-red-sox | 13 | 53 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .176 | .208 | .216 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 |  Detroit Tigers | 89 | 309 | 78 | – | 21 | 12 | .252 | – | – |
| 1930 |  Boston Red Sox | 88 | 243 | 75 | 4 | 32 | 5 | .309 | – | – |
| 1931 | Boston Red Sox | 131 | 498 | 146 | 1 | 59 | 5 | .293 | – | – |