Bill Holland

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 28, 1901 · Alexandria, IN, USA

Seasons21 (1920–1941)

Detroit Stars 1920; Chicago American Giants 1921; Detroit Stars 1921–1922; New York Lincoln Giants 1923–1924; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1925–1927; New York Lincoln Giants 1929–1930; Harlem Stars 1931; New York Black Yankees 1932–1941

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified pitchers

5.2

85.6

SHO

85.6

83.5

81.4

78.4

38.7

ERA

7.91

2.1

WHIP

2.172

K/9

3.49

44.3

FIP

5.73

2.1

FIP-

129.9

2.1

ERA+

55.8

2.1

sWAR

-0.8

4.1

of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 33 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.0

sWAR

21.7

94.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1920	25	62	55	1	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	.073	.136	.073	.208	-23.7	-37.3	.118	2.3
1921	32	69	59	0	6	0	0	1	6	4	0	.102	.185	.102	.286	0.7	-17.5	.157	2.5
1922	25	62	51	2	7	0	0	5	3	0	0	.137	.185	.137	.322	2.3	-12.2	.162	3.7
1923	12	25	22	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	.136	.174	.136	.310	5.9	-12.1	.155	1.2
1924	20	43	36	4	9	2	0	3	4	0	0	.250	.325	.306	.631	78.2	71.9	.306	0.9
1925	12	28	25	1	5	1	0	1	1	0	0	.200	.231	.240	.471	27.8	22.0	.221	-0.2
1926	10	26	22	2	1	0	0	0	3	3	0	.045	.160	.045	.205	-21.0	-42.4	.130	0.5
1927	14	47	42	7	12	1	0	5	3	0	1	.286	.348	.310	.657	78.3	73.4	.319	0.3
1929	23	72	64	10	12	2	0	4	5	0	0	.188	.246	.219	.465	24.1	14.4	.228	1.3
1930	20	64	58	13	16	2	0	5	3	0	0	.276	.311	.310	.622	49.8	43.3	.288	3.0
1931	6	17	13	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	.154	.267	.154	.421	36.2	17.9	.223	0.6
1932	9	34	28	3	3	1	0	4	5	0	0	.107	.242	.143	.385	24.6	2.1	.211	1.2
1933	5	14	12	0	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	41.8	22.9	.242	0.2
1934	7	14	13	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	.077	.143	.077	.220	-22.8	-35.6	.117	0.3
1935	3	10	8	1	2	1	0	2	2	0	0	.250	.400	.375	.775	117.9	112.5	.366	-0.2
1936	13	29	23	1	7	0	0	3	2	1	0	.304	.360	.304	.664	77.6	71.2	.320	2.3
1937	7	20	18	2	6	0	0	3	2	0	0	.333	.400	.333	.733	97.4	91.2	.349	0.8
1938	10	21	19	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	.158	.200	.158	.358	9.6	-4.4	.176	1.6
1939	10	21	20	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	.050	.050	.100	.150	-48.6	-61.0	.066	0.2
1940	5	11	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-41.2	-52.6	.085	0.2
1941	6	17	13	3	4	0	1	5	4	0	0	.308	.471	.462	.932	159.9	162.0	.442	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1920	25	18	10	5	3	12	0	135	51	45	87	6	157.3	2.92	1.144	4.98	3.44	95.8	123.0	2.3
1921	29	21	12	11	2	19	0	163	66	40	115	7	177.0	3.36	1.147	5.85	3.36	84.9	117.9	2.5
1922	24	16	12	10	0	12	1	134	53	25	92	9	156.3	3.05	1.017	5.30	4.09	87.3	153.4	3.7
1923	11	8	0	7	1	3	0	75	25	16	50	4	72.0	3.13	1.264	6.25	3.54	89.6	126.4	1.2
1924	17	12	7	6	0	8	0	117	50	32	41	7	97.7	4.61	1.526	3.78	4.81	109.6	95.3	0.9
1925	12	10	1	6	1	5	0	103	52	28	50	0	76.7	6.10	1.709	5.87	4.31	88.3	79.9	-0.2
1926	9	8	2	6	1	7	1	74	32	19	34	3	66.3	4.34	1.402	4.61	3.76	84.1	103.1	0.5
1927	12	9	6	6	0	9	0	104	50	27	35	6	84.3	5.34	1.553	3.74	4.46	97.3	85.9	0.3
1929	17	17	6	8	0	12	1	148	73	36	68	14	123.7	5.31	1.488	4.95	5.54	101.7	102.6	1.3
1930	19	18	14	3	0	15	1	145	67	43	99	10	136.0	4.43	1.382	6.55	4.88	90.6	121.5	3.0
1931	6	5	2	3	1	5	0	39	16	8	20	1	42.7	3.38	1.102	4.22	3.09	84.1	108.9	0.6
1932	9	8	5	2	0	8	1	76	30	20	42	6	77.7	3.48	1.236	4.87	4.43	114.6	111.1	1.2
1933	4	3	1	2	1	2	0	24	12	7	12	3	25.7	4.21	1.208	4.21	4.88	127.9	90.6	0.2
1934	7	5	2	4	1	3	0	34	15	9	31	1	39.3	3.43	1.093	7.09	2.76	78.3	102.9	0.3
1935	3	3	2	1	0	2	0	31	16	5	18	2	22.3	6.45	1.612	7.25	4.26	98.1	67.3	-0.2
1936	12	8	6	5	0	7	0	91	29	15	35	6	79.3	3.29	1.336	3.97	4.72	92.4	155.3	2.3
1937	7	6	2	3	0	4	0	56	22	16	20	4	45.3	4.37	1.588	3.97	5.35	107.3	114.2	0.8
1938	10	6	2	3	0	5	0	61	20	12	35	3	57.3	3.14	1.273	5.49	4.05	80.1	161.0	1.6
1939	10	6	2	5	2	5	0	76	33	12	19	8	57.0	5.21	1.544	3.00	5.57	115.0	93.0	0.2
1940	5	4	1	2	0	2	0	34	15	10	15	2	26.0	5.19	1.692	5.19	5.15	98.6	100.6	0.2
1941	6	6	2	3	0	3	0	60	34	24	15	3	38.7	7.91	2.172	3.49	5.73	129.9	55.8	-0.8

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

274

706

612

107

RBI

.1748

OBP

.2429

SLG

.1961

OPS

.4390

Pitching

G (P)

254

197

101

148

233rd-most career CG

SHO

1,659

SO (P)

933

BB allowed

449

ERA

4.129

WHIP

1.3439

K/9

5.06

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1941-04-13	NBY @ BBB Gameday	3	2	2	1	3	1	4
1941-05-03	NBY @ NYC Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	2	2
1921-07-03	SLS @ DTS Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2
1937-07-17	BEG @ NBY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	2
1920-05-31	CHG @ DTS Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-06-22	DTS @ ABC Gameday	9.0	9	7	6	0	11	3
1921-08-14	KCM @ DTS Gameday	9.0	9	6	6	2	10	1
1921-07-03	SLS @ DTS Gameday	9.0	12	7	7	1	9	1
1922-09-07	CAG @ DTS Gameday	8.0	9	5	2	2	9	1
1937-07-17	BEG @ NBY Gameday	9.2	15	5	5	2	8	1

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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.