MLB / Players

Bill Force

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 17, 1895 · Walker County, GA, USA

Seasons9 (1921–1929)

Detroit Stars 1921–1923; Baltimore Black Sox 1924–1929

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

8.5

3.5

2.5

11.1

RBI

3.5

12.1

71.4

32.2

.185

5.5

OBP

.313

21.1

SLG

.259

7.5

OPS

.572

10.6

wRC+

61.8

15.1

OPS+

49.1

10.6

wOBA

.286

14.1

sWAR

-0.4

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 21 PA)

1928 season — qualified pitchers

10.7

14.5

91.6

2.3

SHO

83.2

77.9

82.4

11.5

35.9

58.0

14.5

ERA

6.98

7.6

WHIP

1.724

8.4

K/9

2.48

23.7

FIP

6.34

2.3

FIP-

120.4

4.6

ERA+

75.4

9.2

sWAR

-0.4

5.3

of 132 qualified 1928 pitchers (min 7 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.6

87.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1921	32	94	81	7	18	2	2	0	5	7	1	1	.222	.292	.296	.588	71.5	66.3	.286	1.0
1922	29	71	58	10	18	0	3	3	11	9	0	0	.310	.412	.569	.981	149.8	161.4	.441	3.0
1923	49	112	96	16	29	6	0	2	16	9	0	0	.302	.362	.427	.789	104.0	105.1	.365	3.5
1924	27	54	46	5	9	2	0	0	2	6	2	0	.196	.288	.239	.528	56.0	44.3	.264	0.9
1925	14	35	32	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.094	.094	.094	.188	-43.7	-51.3	.087	1.1
1926	18	25	25	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.120	.120	.120	.240	-30.1	-34.3	.113	-0.6
1927	27	56	48	12	6	1	1	1	4	5	0	2	.125	.208	.250	.458	25.4	19.6	.221	1.7
1928	15	33	27	2	5	2	0	0	2	4	0	0	.185	.313	.259	.572	61.8	49.1	.286	-0.4
1929	7	11	11	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.273	.273	.273	.545	37.0	33.6	.254	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1921	25	17	8	8	0	11	0	156	77	41	86	8	157.0	4.41	1.255	4.93	3.91	98.7	89.7	1.0
1922	22	15	9	4	1	10	1	119	63	39	90	14	140.0	4.05	1.129	5.79	5.00	106.9	115.6	3.0
1923	37	18	11	9	4	10	0	199	84	50	92	15	195.0	3.88	1.277	4.25	4.14	94.3	113.4	3.5
1924	25	12	10	6	0	7	1	115	59	33	64	3	115.3	4.60	1.283	4.99	3.89	88.7	95.4	0.9
1925	13	11	3	5	0	7	1	90	37	28	26	0	82.0	4.06	1.439	2.85	4.90	100.5	120.2	1.1
1926	14	7	2	5	1	2	0	62	33	25	21	2	49.3	6.02	1.764	3.83	4.60	102.7	74.3	-0.6
1927	22	13	7	6	0	5	0	119	52	40	37	9	117.0	4.00	1.359	2.85	4.92	107.5	114.6	1.7
1928	12	4	3	1	0	1	0	79	45	21	16	8	58.0	6.98	1.724	2.48	6.34	120.4	75.4	-0.4
1929	4	3	1	2	0	2	0	21	11	8	6	2	21.0	4.71	1.381	2.57	6.13	112.5	115.6	0.3

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

218

491

424

RBI

.2217

OBP

.2934

SLG

.3231

OPS

.6165

Pitching

G (P)

174

100

SHO

935

SO (P)

438

BB allowed

285

ERA

4.439

WHIP

1.3320

K/9

4.22

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
1922-08-16	CUB @ DTS Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	1	2	0	7
1922-06-04	PTK @ DTS Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	1	3	1	6
1923-06-12	ABC @ DTS Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	5
1923-08-04	CUB @ DTS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	4
1922-05-07	CUB @ DTS Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-07-12	CUB @ DTS Gameday	12.0	11	10	9	8	12	1
1922-06-27	SLS @ DTS Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	2	9	0
1922-06-04	PTK @ DTS Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	3	8	0
1922-06-07	PTK @ DTS Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	8	0
1923-06-09	ABC @ DTS Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	8	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.