Bill Knickerbocker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 29, 1911 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1933

Final gameSeptember 17, 1942

Seasons10 (1933–1942)

Cleveland Indians 1933–1936; St. Louis Browns 1937; New York Yankees 1938–1940; Chicago White Sox 1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1942

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified batters

121

20.2

530

33.3

491

37.4

14.1

128

29.3

55.6

37.4

30.3

RBI

38.4

20.2

62.6

28.3

33.3

.261

15.2

OBP

.303

7.1

SLG

.365

16.2

OPS

.668

11.1

wRC+

60.5

6.1

OPS+

64.8

7.1

wOBA

.306

9.1

sWAR

-0.4

6.1

of 100 qualified 1937 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.7

OPS+

79.6

9.1

sWAR

4.8

78.9

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
1933	80	303	279	20	63	16	3	2	32	11	30	1	4	.226	.255	.326	.581	45.5	51.2	.267	-0.7
1934	146	632	593	82	188	32	5	4	67	25	40	6	6	.317	.347	.408	.755	91.9	94.4	.348	2.1
1935	132	577	540	77	161	34	5	0	55	27	31	2	12	.298	.332	.380	.711	79.9	82.7	.329	1.0
1936	155	686	618	81	182	35	3	8	73	56	30	5	14	.294	.354	.400	.754	85.6	85.8	.349	1.6
1937	121	530	491	53	128	29	5	4	61	30	32	3	2	.261	.303	.365	.668	60.5	64.8	.306	-0.4
1938	46	143	128	15	32	8	3	1	21	11	10	0	0	.250	.309	.383	.692	73.3	75.6	.318	0.0
1939	6	13	13	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.231	.385	-9.5	-0.6	.171	-0.1
1940	45	145	124	17	30	8	1	1	10	14	8	1	1	.242	.333	.347	.680	79.4	77.5	.318	0.2
1941	89	396	343	51	84	23	2	7	29	41	27	6	5	.245	.329	.385	.714	90.0	90.6	.333	0.9
1942	87	328	289	25	73	12	0	1	19	29	30	1	2	.253	.323	.304	.627	75.3	75.3	.306	0.2

Career totals

907

3,753

3,418

423

943

198

RBI

368

244

238

.2759

OBP

.3258

SLG

.3742

OPS

.7000

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
1941-05-28	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	1	4	1	2	0	0	0	9
1934-08-25	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	2	0	8
1937-07-11	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1938-05-31	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1941-05-15	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	3	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1933-04-12	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-13	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-16	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-17	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-18	CLE @ BAL 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.