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Bill Anderson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 25, 1913 · Brevard, NC, USA

Seasons7 (1941–1947)

New York Cubans 1941–1942; Homestead Grays 1943; New York Cubans 1943–1946; Newark Eagles 1947

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

2.4

1.2

38.1

SHO

97.6

90.5

95.2

1.2

77.4

33.3

ERA

5.40

4.8

WHIP

1.440

21.4

K/9

2.97

FIP

4.83

2.4

FIP-

117.2

3.6

ERA+

76.4

7.1

sWAR

-0.2

8.3

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 27 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.2

27.5

sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	14	37	36	2	3	1	1	1	0	.083	.108	.111	.219	-27.2	-38.5	.106	0.3
1942	9	21	21	1	1	0	0	0	2	.048	.048	.048	.095	-60.6	-72.8	.045	-1.2
1943	13	40	36	2	5	0	0	2	0	.139	.184	.139	.323	3.0	-13.1	.166	1.3
1944	8	10	9	2	1	0	1	1	0	.111	.200	.111	.311	2.3	-15.2	.171	-0.4
1945	8	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-39.2	-43.9	.095	-0.2
1946	10	18	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	.111	.111	.111	.222	-30.4	-37.9	.106	0.1
1947	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	169.2	174.1	.472	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1941	14	11	4	8	0	9	0	93	45	34	28	8	87.3	4.64	1.454	2.89	5.56	126.0	95.2	0.3
1942	9	8	2	4	0	2	0	66	35	17	19	2	46.0	6.85	1.804	3.72	4.13	105.4	57.3	-1.2
1943	13	10	7	2	0	7	1	88	38	34	26	1	85.3	4.01	1.430	2.74	4.94	102.6	120.0	1.3
1944	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	30	18	8	7	2	23.0	7.04	1.652	2.74	5.30	122.9	61.3	-0.4
1945	8	4	1	3	1	1	0	37	20	11	11	2	33.3	5.40	1.440	2.97	4.83	117.2	76.4	-0.2
1946	10	5	3	1	0	1	0	52	23	14	20	3	43.0	4.81	1.535	4.19	4.92	111.5	91.7	0.1
1947	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	2	2	2	5.3	5.06	1.500	3.38	8.82	213.1	81.7	0.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

138

132

RBI

.1061

OBP

.1324

SLG

.1136

OPS

.2460

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

323

SO (P)

113

BB allowed

120

ERA

5.066

WHIP

1.5216

K/9

3.15

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	TB
1941-08-24	PHS @ NYC Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	2
1941-06-26	NYC @ PHS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1
1941-07-27	NYC @ BEG Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	1
1942-08-16	NYC @ HOM Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1
1943-05-16	NYC @ NBY Gameday	4	0	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-06-24	NYC @ NBY Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	2	7	0
1941-06-30	PHS @ NYC Gameday	9.0	12	4	3	1	5	1
1943-05-16	NYC @ NBY Gameday	9.0	10	5	5	6	5	0
1941-05-08	NYC @ NE Gameday	8.0	8	3	3	3	5	0
1946-08-26	NE @ NYC Gameday	6.0	7	6	4	4	5	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.