Bill Skowron

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb

BornDecember 18, 1930 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1954

Final gameOctober 1, 1967

Seasons14 (1954–1967)

New York Yankees 1954–1962; Los Angeles Dodgers 1963; Chicago White Sox 1964; Washington Senators 1964; Chicago White Sox 1965–1966; California Angels 1967; Chicago White Sox 1967

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified batters

146

35.8

605

49.5

559

32.6

153

55.8

28.4

56.8

RBI

67.4

15.8

49.5

6.3

51.6

.274

61.1

OBP

.316

29.5

SLG

.424

55.8

OPS

.740

51.6

wRC+

114.8

52.6

OPS+

116.6

55.8

wOBA

.332

46.3

sWAR

1.8

31.6

of 96 qualified 1965 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.9

77.5

OPS+

120.9

80.5

sWAR

20.8

93.9

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
1954	87	237	215	37	73	12	9	7	41	19	18	2	1	.340	.392	.577	.969	170.5	171.1	.434	2.3
1955	108	314	288	46	92	17	3	12	61	21	32	1	1	.319	.369	.524	.894	139.6	143.1	.401	1.9
1956	134	523	464	78	143	21	6	23	90	50	60	4	4	.308	.382	.528	.910	143.8	144.9	.409	3.6
1957	122	501	457	54	139	15	5	17	88	31	60	3	2	.304	.347	.470	.818	123.0	125.8	.364	2.0
1958	126	503	465	61	127	22	3	14	73	28	69	1	1	.273	.317	.424	.740	105.7	107.4	.332	1.0
1959	74	309	282	39	84	13	5	15	59	20	47	1	0	.298	.349	.539	.888	144.5	145.7	.392	2.1
1960	146	584	538	63	166	34	3	26	91	38	95	2	3	.309	.353	.528	.881	140.6	142.6	.389	3.7
1961	150	607	561	76	150	23	4	28	89	35	108	0	0	.267	.318	.472	.790	109.2	115.2	.344	1.4
1962	140	524	478	63	129	16	6	23	80	36	99	0	1	.270	.325	.473	.798	114.4	117.2	.350	1.5
1963	89	256	237	19	48	8	0	4	19	13	49	0	1	.203	.252	.287	.539	53.8	60.8	.243	-1.2
1964	146	575	535	47	151	21	3	17	79	30	92	0	0	.282	.322	.428	.750	106.1	108.7	.330	1.1
1965	146	605	559	63	153	24	3	18	78	32	77	1	3	.274	.316	.424	.740	114.8	116.6	.332	1.8
1966	120	369	337	27	84	15	2	6	29	26	45	1	1	.249	.308	.359	.667	97.6	99.0	.302	0.2
1967	70	139	131	8	27	2	1	1	11	4	19	0	0	.206	.252	.260	.511	48.7	54.1	.239	-0.7

Career totals

1,658

6,046

5,547

681

1,566

243

211

349th-most career HR

RBI

888

415th-most career RBI

383

870

.2823

OBP

.3322

SLG

.4593

398th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7915

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
1959-06-20	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	5	0	11
1956-07-28	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	2	7	0	10
1960-07-19	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	5	1	10
1964-05-10	BOS @ TEX Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	2	3	1	10
1956-07-27	NYY @ ATH Gameday	7	2	4	2	0	1	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-08-12	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-09-25	ATH @ NYY 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

6× 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.