String Bean Williams

HandednessThrows Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

Born1873

Seasons14 (1910–1925)

West Baden Sprudels 1910; West Baden Sprudels 1913; Indianapolis ABCs 1914; St. Louis Giants 1915; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1916; St. Louis Giants 1916; Indianapolis ABCs 1917; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1917; Indianapolis ABCs 1918; Chicago American Giants 1919; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1920–1921; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1921–1922; New York Bacharach Giants 1922; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1923; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1924; Washington Potomacs 1924; New York Lincoln Giants 1925

Percentile snapshot

1925 season — qualified pitchers

2.2

95.6

SHO

94.8

92.6

98.5

54.8

51.3

2.2

ERA

6.49

5.9

WHIP

1.734

5.2

K/9

2.10

14.1

FIP

5.00

FIP-

102.5

31.1

ERA+

75.2

6.7

sWAR

-0.3

6.7

of 136 qualified 1925 pitchers (min 50 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.2

87.1

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
1910	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1913	5	16	14	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	.143	.143	.357	.500	33.1	37.2	.220	0.6
1914	28	72	68	9	18	3	2	2	11	2	0	2	.265	.306	.456	.761	103.5	110.1	.349	-0.7
1915	12	28	27	2	6	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	.222	.222	.333	.556	68.1	73.4	.262	-0.2
1916	19	65	61	6	12	1	0	1	4	3	0	1	.197	.234	.262	.497	42.0	38.3	.244	2.0
1917	22	72	60	8	16	2	2	0	5	7	0	1	.267	.343	.367	.710	110.2	115.5	.354	2.5
1918	15	46	42	6	11	1	0	0	6	2	0	1	.262	.295	.286	.581	74.0	70.7	.287	3.0
1919	9	22	20	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.150	.190	.150	.340	8.5	-3.7	.171	0.1
1920	9	30	29	3	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	.310	.310	.345	.655	114.3	123.9	.321	1.7
1921	11	26	26	3	11	2	0	0	4	0	1	0	.423	.423	.500	.923	130.2	137.4	.422	-0.1
1922	9	19	18	1	8	1	1	0	4	1	0	0	.444	.474	.611	1.085	192.7	212.7	.497	1.1
1923	4	7	5	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.600	.600	.600	1.200	217.5	237.3	.560	-0.5
1924	17	40	39	9	10	2	1	0	4	1	0	0	.256	.275	.359	.634	70.5	70.9	.292	1.3
1925	12	19	18	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	19.4	15.4	.205	-0.3

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	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	4	0	0	0	1.3	27.00	3.750	0.00	3.10	105.2	10.9	-0.4
1913	5	5	3	2	0	3	0	33	10	9	18	0	34.3	2.62	1.223	4.72	3.12	93.9	126.7	0.6
1914	22	13	10	7	1	10	2	119	69	46	65	9	126.0	4.93	1.310	4.64	3.92	123.3	64.5	-0.7
1915	10	7	5	4	0	7	0	61	30	31	40	2	64.3	4.20	1.430	5.60	3.22	111.6	68.9	-0.2
1916	14	11	6	6	1	10	0	112	35	28	65	5	108.3	2.91	1.292	5.40	3.82	99.5	136.0	2.0
1917	21	15	12	8	0	14	2	132	46	49	85	2	152.0	2.72	1.191	5.03	2.58	89.3	104.6	2.5
1918	15	10	7	4	0	9	0	76	24	33	41	0	105.3	2.05	1.035	3.50	3.10	85.2	177.5	3.0
1919	8	5	4	2	0	4	0	41	22	24	17	2	51.3	3.86	1.266	2.98	3.71	113.1	85.1	0.1
1920	9	8	3	3	0	5	1	61	12	17	41	0	72.3	1.49	1.078	5.10	2.05	84.2	163.3	1.7
1921	11	9	3	5	0	5	0	70	39	19	14	1	60.7	5.79	1.467	2.08	4.41	107.5	70.9	-0.1
1922	9	6	1	4	0	3	0	48	17	13	22	2	44.7	3.43	1.366	4.43	4.30	98.3	127.6	1.1
1923	3	2	0	3	0	1	0	25	13	5	3	2	12.3	9.49	2.432	2.19	6.58	166.6	41.6	-0.5
1924	14	11	6	4	0	9	1	94	41	30	34	3	91.3	4.04	1.358	3.35	4.44	101.2	108.7	1.3
1925	10	1	0	2	0	0	0	73	37	16	12	0	51.3	6.49	1.734	2.10	5.00	102.5	75.2	-0.3

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

173

462

427

113

RBI

.2646

OBP

.2960

SLG

.3583

OPS

.6543

Pitching

G (P)

152

104

SHO

976

SO (P)

457

BB allowed

320

ERA

3.681

WHIP

1.3017

K/9

4.22

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	H	RBI	TB
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS Gameday	3	2	2	2
1923-07-29	BRG @ BBS Gameday	1	1	0	1
1923-05-12	BRG @ HIL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS Gameday	0	0	0	0
1923-05-14	BRG @ BBS Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS Gameday	9.1	15	9	9	2	2	2
1923-07-24	BRG @ BG Gameday	2.0	4	5	0	3	1	0
1923-05-14	BRG @ BBS Gameday	1.0	6	5	4	0	0	0
1923-05-12	BRG @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS 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.