Bill Francis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 5 in · 140 lb

BornFebruary 28, 1879 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

Seasons20 (1906–1925)

Philadelphia Giants 1906–1910; New York Lincoln Giants 1911–1913; Chicago American Giants 1914–1919; Detroit Stars 1919; Hilldale Club 1920–1922; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1923; Cleveland Browns 1924; Chicago American Giants 1925

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified batters

21.8

222

173

18.4

20.7

3.4

0.6

RBI

56.4

54.7

3.4

.150

OBP

.297

8.4

SLG

.162

OPS

.459

wRC+

55.7

OPS+

31.3

0.6

wOBA

.250

2.2

sWAR

-0.4

6.7

of 180 qualified 1923 batters (min 142 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.6

75.7

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
1906	16	63	57	5	7	0	0	0	2	3	0	1	.123	.180	.123	.303	4.5	-8.4	.162	-0.5
1907	6	21	18	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	.167	.250	.167	.417	49.4	37.4	.223	0.0
1908	30	121	102	15	23	1	0	0	10	13	0	4	.225	.319	.235	.554	78.0	65.3	.291	0.1
1909	18	80	73	10	17	1	2	1	9	3	0	1	.233	.291	.342	.634	91.9	91.7	.303	0.2
1910	19	86	76	11	10	2	2	0	4	7	0	3	.132	.214	.211	.425	43.0	23.8	.212	-0.3
1911	15	68	56	13	16	5	1	0	9	9	0	5	.286	.403	.411	.814	120.2	119.8	.395	0.4
1912	21	90	82	13	24	2	0	0	8	4	0	4	.293	.341	.317	.658	89.1	85.7	.315	0.2
1913	16	62	55	5	9	0	1	0	1	3	0	1	.164	.207	.200	.407	26.4	20.3	.206	-0.3
1914	45	174	148	30	43	6	1	0	18	15	0	0	.291	.360	.345	.704	99.1	96.4	.341	0.8
1915	56	232	195	32	40	6	0	1	17	25	0	1	.205	.302	.251	.553	81.2	72.8	.286	0.4
1916	62	244	199	27	42	10	0	0	22	31	0	1	.211	.329	.261	.590	87.5	78.0	.310	0.6
1917	57	211	174	21	35	7	2	0	15	26	0	5	.201	.325	.264	.590	100.8	92.8	.310	1.0
1918	25	103	87	10	21	4	0	0	13	13	0	1	.241	.340	.287	.627	91.5	84.3	.321	0.3
1919	46	190	151	19	28	4	3	0	16	24	0	7	.185	.317	.252	.568	73.4	60.6	.292	0.1
1920	19	78	69	2	11	1	0	0	6	7	0	0	.159	.237	.174	.411	48.2	39.8	.220	-0.2
1921	44	198	158	36	49	6	5	5	31	26	0	10	.310	.411	.506	.917	129.2	135.5	.420	1.7
1922	36	146	123	18	21	3	0	1	8	15	1	3	.171	.271	.220	.491	53.1	40.8	.249	-0.3
1923	53	222	173	30	26	2	0	0	6	35	1	1	.150	.297	.162	.459	55.7	31.3	.250	-0.4
1924	11	47	40	5	9	0	1	0	3	6	0	2	.225	.340	.275	.615	80.6	69.8	.311	0.1
1925	25	87	71	8	15	1	0	0	7	11	0	1	.211	.317	.225	.542	62.8	48.3	.272	-0.1

Career totals

620

2,523

2,107

312

449

RBI

205

278

.2131

OBP

.3143

SLG

.2705

OPS

.5848

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	RBI	BB	TB
1923-06-17	CSE @ BG Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	2
1923-08-16	BG @ HIL Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2
1923-06-12	NYL @ BG Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	2
1923-07-09	CSE @ BG Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
1923-07-17	NYL @ BG Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-28	BG @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-06	BG @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-06	BG @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-07	BG @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-06-03	HIL @ BG 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.