Bill Perkins

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 176 lb

BornJune 26, 1906 · Dawson, GA, USA

Seasons16 (1928–1948)

Birmingham Black Barons 1928; Birmingham Black Barons 1930; Baltimore Black Sox 1931; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Cleveland Stars 1932; Homestead Grays 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932–1937; Philadelphia Stars 1938–1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1940; Birmingham Black Barons 1945; New York Black Yankees 1945–1946; Philadelphia Stars 1946; Baltimore Elite Giants 1947–1948

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

19.4

175

160

19.4

5.8

35.3

8.6

RBI

10.1

69.1

30.2

42.4

.288

OBP

.341

35.3

SLG

.388

OPS

.729

35.3

wRC+

89.9

25.2

OPS+

89.3

25.9

wOBA

.341

sWAR

0.5

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 120 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.8

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
1928	80	280	252	32	57	4	7	2	20	13	2	2	.226	.272	.321	.594	63.1	61.5	.276	0.2
1930	63	236	211	32	67	8	3	5	33	15	0	7	.318	.368	.455	.823	115.3	118.0	.375	1.7
1931	7	25	22	3	7	2	0	1	2	2	0	0	.318	.375	.545	.920	142.5	154.0	.422	0.3
1932	43	166	152	20	56	10	5	3	39	11	0	0	.368	.411	.559	.970	148.6	161.8	.446	1.9
1933	57	207	189	26	48	5	4	1	30	16	0	0	.254	.312	.339	.651	81.5	78.0	.302	0.3
1934	7	26	24	3	9	3	0	0	4	2	1	1	.375	.423	.500	.923	150.5	158.1	.431	0.3
1935	38	146	137	23	45	12	4	3	28	5	5	0	.328	.361	.540	.901	117.7	124.2	.397	0.9
1936	43	163	146	16	40	5	1	3	26	13	1	1	.274	.338	.384	.721	85.5	83.8	.335	0.3
1937	1	5	5	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.600	.600	.600	1.200	201.0	210.3	.548	0.1
1938	60	228	197	36	61	9	1	7	44	29	0	3	.310	.398	.472	.870	124.8	129.0	.400	2.0
1939	21	82	78	10	17	2	0	1	12	3	1	0	.218	.244	.282	.526	43.9	39.1	.244	-0.2
1940	46	175	160	31	46	5	4	1	28	13	3	3	.288	.341	.388	.729	89.9	89.3	.341	0.5
1945	21	78	74	6	15	2	0	0	8	2	0	2	.203	.224	.230	.453	31.3	27.9	.217	-0.3
1946	20	75	66	3	14	2	0	0	6	5	0	1	.212	.268	.242	.510	49.7	42.7	.253	-0.1
1947	14	44	39	0	4	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	.103	.167	.103	.269	-14.7	-25.4	.145	-0.4
1948	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	52.9	0.3	.255	0.0

Career totals

526

1,939

1,754

241

489

RBI

285

133

.2788

OBP

.3323

SLG

.3974

OPS

.7297

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
1932-07-30	HOM @ WPI Gameday	6	2	5	0	1	1	5	0	10
1935-06-23	TIC @ NYC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1940-05-30	BEG @ NE Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1938-06-23	BEG @ PHS Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1935-05-30	TIC @ PHS Gameday	5	4	4	3	0	0	4	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-28	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-29	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-30	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-05-01	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-05-01	CUB @ BBB 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.

Honors

2× 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.