Bill Pierce

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb

BornApril 30, 1890 · Hanover, IN, USA

Seasons15 (1910–1924)

Philadelphia Giants 1910; Chicago American Giants 1911–1913; Schenectady Mohawk Giants 1913; New York Lincoln Stars 1914–1915; New York Lincoln Giants 1916–1919; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1920–1921; New York Lincoln Giants 1921; Baltimore Black Sox 1922; New York Lincoln Giants 1922–1923; Detroit Stars 1924

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

33.3

282

39.1

248

37.4

40.2

44.3

89.7

83.9

RBI

55.2

46.6

83.3

12.6

59.8

.335

82.8

OBP

.406

SLG

.581

96.6

OPS

.987

97.1

wRC+

155.1

95.4

OPS+

168.6

97.1

wOBA

.450

97.1

sWAR

2.5

74.1

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 198 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.0

85.8

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1910	17	66	56	3	19	3	2	0	10	8	2	.339	.422	.464	.886	145.4	157.5	.416	0.7
1911	9	30	28	0	4	0	0	0	3	1	1	.143	.172	.143	.315	12.1	-4.5	.158	-0.2
1912	46	186	167	34	52	11	6	2	31	12	0	.311	.358	.485	.843	136.1	146.7	.393	1.4
1913	39	153	135	26	43	9	2	0	21	8	3	.319	.361	.415	.776	116.5	121.0	.369	0.9
1914	4	18	16	3	6	0	1	0	3	0	0	.375	.375	.500	.875	126.3	136.9	.413	0.1
1915	37	155	141	14	41	3	2	3	29	10	0	.291	.338	.404	.742	86.2	85.1	.343	0.4
1916	20	79	69	11	22	4	1	0	8	8	1	.319	.390	.406	.795	113.3	115.5	.388	0.3
1917	2	8	7	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	.286	.375	.286	.661	87.9	79.4	.346	0.0
1918	5	17	15	5	7	1	0	1	5	1	0	.467	.500	.733	1.233	232.7	252.5	.581	0.3
1919	1	3	3	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	.667	.667	1.000	1.667	379.0	408.5	.789	0.1
1920	33	126	109	16	34	6	2	1	15	11	3	.312	.380	.431	.811	167.7	177.4	.403	1.2
1921	8	28	24	6	9	1	0	0	3	2	1	.375	.423	.417	.840	116.7	114.1	.394	0.2
1922	20	85	76	16	24	9	0	2	15	9	1	.316	.388	.513	.901	146.3	153.4	.415	0.7
1923	29	88	83	14	25	6	0	0	13	5	3	.301	.341	.373	.714	100.1	100.3	.335	0.4
1924	63	282	248	45	83	10	12	9	52	26	3	.335	.406	.581	.987	155.1	168.6	.450	2.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1910	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.7	0.00	.600	0.00	3.07	88.2	—	0.7

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

333

1,324

1,177

196

373

RBI

210

102

.3169

OBP

.3743

SLG

.4647

OPS

.8390

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

.6000

K/9

0.00

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	RBI	BB	TB
1923-08-23	NYL @ BBS Gameday	5	1	3	1	3	0	4
1923-08-25	NYL @ BBS Gameday	5	1	2	1	2	0	3
1923-04-29	HIL @ NYL Gameday	6	2	2	1	1	1	3
1923-06-16	NYL @ HIL Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1923-08-24	NYL @ BBS Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-29	HIL @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	CSE @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	CSE @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-27	BRG @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-27	BRG @ NYL 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.