Bill North

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornMay 15, 1948 · Seattle, WA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1971

Final gameJune 11, 1981

Seasons11 (1971–1981)

Chicago Cubs 1971–1972; Oakland Athletics 1973–1977; Los Angeles Dodgers 1978; Oakland Athletics 1978; San Francisco Giants 1979–1981

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

128

6.5

500

415

45.2

104

7.3

3.2

RBI

87.9

28.2

91.1

3.2

.251

8.9

OBP

.373

78.2

SLG

.292

1.6

OPS

.665

12.1

wRC+

101.7

33.9

OPS+

91.2

21.8

wOBA

.328

26.6

sWAR

2.0

33.1

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.9

57.4

OPS+

100.4

42.6

sWAR

21.4

94.2

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
1971	8	21	16	3	6	0	0	0	0	4	6	1	1	.375	.524	.375	.899	163.0	145.6	.430	0.2
1972	66	142	127	22	23	2	3	0	4	13	33	6	0	.181	.262	.244	.507	34.9	39.5	.246	-0.7
1973	146	642	554	98	158	10	5	5	34	78	89	53	20	.285	.376	.348	.725	118.0	112.6	.345	3.7
1974	149	630	543	79	141	20	5	4	33	69	86	54	26	.260	.347	.337	.684	111.2	105.6	.329	3.2
1975	140	624	524	74	143	17	5	1	43	81	80	30	12	.273	.373	.330	.703	111.6	104.3	.340	3.2
1976	154	675	590	91	163	20	5	2	31	73	95	75	29	.276	.356	.337	.693	113.5	108.7	.334	3.5
1977	56	223	184	32	48	3	3	1	9	32	25	17	13	.261	.376	.326	.702	103.2	95.7	.333	0.9
1978	134	442	356	59	82	14	0	0	15	74	61	30	10	.230	.367	.270	.637	94.6	83.0	.319	1.4
1979	142	561	460	87	119	15	4	5	30	96	84	58	24	.259	.386	.341	.727	117.2	106.8	.351	3.3
1980	128	500	415	73	104	12	1	1	19	81	78	45	19	.251	.373	.292	.665	101.7	91.2	.328	2.0
1981	46	161	131	22	29	7	0	1	12	26	28	26	8	.221	.354	.298	.652	102.2	89.6	.328	0.6

Career totals

1,169

4,621

3,900

640

1,016

120

RBI

230

627

486th-most career BB

665

395

79th-most career SB

.2605

OBP

.3653

372nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3226

OPS

.6879

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
1975-07-25	CWS @ ATH Gameday	6	1	4	0	1	0	2	1	6
1973-07-15	ATH @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1974-07-20	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	1	6
1972-10-02	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	6
1976-05-15	TEX @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	6

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.