Bill Cissell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 3, 1904 · Perryville, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1928

Final gameSeptember 25, 1938

Seasons9 (1928–1938)

Chicago White Sox 1928–1932; Cleveland Indians 1932–1933; Boston Red Sox 1934; Philadelphia Athletics 1937; New York Giants 1938

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

143

69.3

620

73.5

584

84.9

72.9

184

86.7

84.3

70.5

71.7

RBI

53.6

41.6

95.2

0.6

.315

75.3

OBP

.349

48.2

SLG

.437

63.9

OPS

.785

58.4

wRC+

96.2

38.6

OPS+

98.5

41.6

wOBA

.356

52.4

sWAR

2.0

66.9

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

70.6

3.6

OPS+

72.6

sWAR

1.0

63.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	125	484	443	66	115	22	3	1	60	29	41	18	6	.260	.307	.330	.636	66.7	68.2	.298	0.2
1929	152	666	618	83	173	27	12	5	62	28	53	25	17	.280	.312	.387	.699	76.1	79.4	.318	0.9
1930	141	604	562	82	152	28	9	2	48	28	32	16	9	.270	.307	.363	.670	69.9	70.8	.305	-0.1
1931	109	433	409	42	90	13	5	1	46	16	26	18	6	.220	.256	.284	.540	42.7	44.4	.253	-1.3
1932	143	620	584	85	184	36	7	7	98	29	25	18	15	.315	.349	.437	.785	96.2	98.5	.356	2.0
1933	112	449	409	53	94	21	3	6	33	31	29	6	6	.230	.284	.340	.624	59.8	62.6	.290	-0.5
1934	102	452	416	71	111	13	4	4	44	28	23	11	4	.267	.315	.346	.661	64.8	67.2	.310	-0.4
1937	34	135	117	15	31	7	0	1	14	17	10	0	0	.265	.358	.350	.709	82.0	78.9	.336	0.2
1938	38	155	149	19	40	6	0	2	18	6	11	1	0	.268	.297	.349	.646	72.9	77.3	.298	0.1

Career totals

956

3,998

3,707

516

990

173

RBI

423

212

250

113

.2671

OBP

.3085

SLG

.3604

OPS

.6689

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1929-08-08	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1934-07-18	BOS @ CWS Gameday	6	2	3	2	0	1	7	0	8
1931-04-28	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1932-07-27	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	0	3	1	7
1928-07-14	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	4	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-12	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-13	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.