Billy Purtell
1908–1914 · bats R / throws R · Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers
335G
.227AVG
.275OBP
.275SLG
More career statistics
255H
2HR
104RBI
24SB
1Rare feat
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 · Games | 335 | 337 |
| Batting · At bats | 1,124 | 1,127 |
| Batting · Caught stealing | 2 | 40 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 7 | 91 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 1,268 | 1,270 |
| Batting · RBI | 104 | 101 |
| Batting · Stolen bases | 24 | 25 |
| Batting · Walks | 63 | 61 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 335 | 1,268 | 1,124 | 82 | 255 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 104 | 63 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 309 | .227 | .275 | .275 | .550 |
Streaks
10longest hitting streak · 1910-07-04 to 1910-07-13
12longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | Three-Steal Game | 1909-07-02 | 1 in 96 games | box score ↗ |
| 15 | 2 stolen bases | 1909-07-13 | 1 in 199 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 10 | 2 doubles | 1909-10-02 | 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 | 179 | 650 | 123 | 1 | 58 | 32 | 49 | .214 | .238 | .258 |
| Away | 158 | 620 | 132 | 1 | 43 | 29 | 42 | .239 | .260 | .291 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 15 | 40 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | .212 | .325 | .212 |
| May | 47 | 190 | 36 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 15 | .211 | .226 | .240 |
| June | 84 | 313 | 65 | 0 | 30 | 13 | 26 | .230 | .249 | .280 |
| July | 90 | 340 | 72 | 1 | 28 | 9 | 23 | .232 | .238 | .281 |
| August | 41 | 153 | 31 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 14 | .233 | .281 | .308 |
| September | 51 | 195 | 35 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 11 | .210 | .226 | .246 |
| October | 9 | 39 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | .290 | .359 | .419 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland-guardians | 56 | 210 | 49 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 16 | .263 | .310 | .317 |
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 49 | 180 | 31 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 16 | .193 | .183 | .248 |
| new-york-yankees | 46 | 179 | 43 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 8 | .267 | .268 | .323 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 46 | 174 | 25 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 19 | .163 | .218 | .176 |
| boston-red-sox | 44 | 172 | 42 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 11 | .259 | .273 | .333 |
| detroit-tigers | 43 | 163 | 32 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | .227 | .227 | .262 |
| st-louis-browns | 42 | 151 | 28 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 8 | .226 | .272 | .282 |
| chicago-white-sox | 11 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | .128 | .171 | .128 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 |  Chicago White Sox | 27 | 70 | 9 | – | 5 | 2 | .129 | – | – |
| 1909 | Chicago White Sox | 103 | 361 | 93 | – | 39 | 14 | .258 | – | – |
| 1910 | Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox | 151 | 538 | 117 | 2 | 46 | 8 | .217 | – | – |
| 1911 |  Boston Red Sox | 27 | 82 | 23 | – | 7 | 1 | .280 | – | – |
| 1914 |  Detroit Tigers | 29 | 76 | 13 | – | 4 | – | .171 | – | – |