William Bell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 31, 1897 · Hallettsville, TX, USA

Final gameAugust 15, 1937

Seasons15 (1923–1937)

Kansas City Monarchs 1923–1930; Harlem Stars 1931; Detroit Wolves 1932; Homestead Grays 1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932–1934; Newark Dodgers 1935; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1935; Newark Eagles 1936–1937

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

34.3

33.3

74.5

60.8

SHO

37.3

141

64.7

66.7

70.6

63.7

135.3

33.3

ERA

3.33

77.5

WHIP

1.278

79.4

K/9

4.52

71.6

FIP

4.30

43.1

FIP-

95.3

59.8

ERA+

135.7

85.3

sWAR

3.4

70.6

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 67 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

133.7

97.5

sWAR

34.9

97.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	6	18	18	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	21.5	16.2	.207	0.7
1924	20	57	53	4	10	1	0	0	4	1	0	0	.189	.218	.208	.426	24.3	17.0	.206	1.5
1925	20	50	47	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.043	.063	.043	.105	-53.7	-71.2	.054	3.0
1926	29	83	75	8	19	5	2	0	14	5	1	1	.253	.300	.373	.673	72.9	72.5	.309	6.0
1927	32	96	87	9	26	2	2	0	10	7	0	1	.299	.351	.368	.719	95.0	93.8	.337	4.4
1928	29	70	65	7	17	5	0	0	4	3	1	0	.262	.294	.338	.633	72.6	72.2	.292	4.0
1929	26	77	67	10	20	3	0	0	10	6	0	0	.299	.365	.343	.708	90.3	85.7	.335	3.9
1930	25	80	70	11	18	3	0	0	12	6	0	0	.257	.316	.300	.616	70.5	64.8	.292	3.1
1931	5	16	12	4	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.167	.333	.167	.500	63.7	40.9	.272	0.8
1932	35	108	93	10	25	3	0	0	10	8	0	1	.269	.340	.301	.641	77.9	73.9	.314	2.7
1933	18	44	38	7	10	1	0	1	7	5	0	0	.263	.349	.368	.717	99.6	96.4	.334	0.1
1934	23	59	52	3	14	1	0	0	9	5	1	0	.269	.333	.288	.622	80.9	75.2	.306	3.4
1935	10	22	18	3	8	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	.444	.474	.500	.974	142.5	139.9	.446	0.2
1936	11	28	24	2	4	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	.167	.200	.250	.450	19.4	14.3	.208	0.7
1937	5	12	10	0	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.300	.417	.300	.717	99.5	88.1	.353	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	5	5	3	1	0	3	1	35	14	11	11	2	38.0	3.32	1.211	2.61	4.26	96.9	132.6	0.7
1924	16	13	9	2	0	7	0	109	45	27	33	2	108.0	3.75	1.259	2.75	4.02	93.9	114.2	1.5
1925	18	11	10	3	2	8	1	94	40	26	45	0	116.0	3.10	1.034	3.49	4.94	94.2	169.1	3.0
1926	24	19	15	6	0	16	1	142	47	44	68	3	177.0	2.39	1.051	3.46	3.87	82.6	196.2	6.0
1927	24	17	13	4	1	12	4	155	48	35	52	8	162.3	2.66	1.170	2.88	3.86	96.8	149.7	4.4
1928	24	15	9	7	1	12	1	144	48	23	49	2	150.0	2.88	1.113	2.94	3.74	87.6	148.3	4.0
1929	25	17	14	4	3	13	0	134	59	31	90	6	157.0	3.38	1.051	5.16	3.60	79.6	133.5	3.9
1930	13	11	9	3	1	11	2	95	30	17	72	3	101.0	2.67	1.109	6.42	3.33	73.0	170.5	3.1
1931	4	3	2	2	0	3	0	27	9	7	12	0	32.0	2.53	1.063	3.38	3.07	83.5	145.2	0.8
1932	16	15	12	4	0	12	0	138	46	36	74	2	132.7	3.12	1.312	5.02	3.55	89.4	127.7	2.7
1933	17	13	7	6	0	9	1	128	62	22	63	5	102.7	5.44	1.461	5.52	3.90	90.4	79.3	0.1
1934	21	15	11	4	0	12	1	141	50	32	68	5	135.3	3.33	1.278	4.52	4.30	95.3	135.7	3.4
1935	10	6	3	4	2	3	0	64	33	10	23	2	47.3	6.27	1.563	4.37	4.26	83.6	81.3	0.2
1936	10	5	4	4	0	5	0	67	31	14	13	0	58.0	4.81	1.397	2.02	4.34	85.0	106.2	0.7
1937	5	2	2	2	0	1	0	26	12	9	12	1	28.7	3.77	1.221	3.77	4.59	92.0	132.4	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

294

820

729

182

RBI

.2497

OBP

.3050

SLG

.3018

OPS

.6068

Pitching

G (P)

232

167

123

424th-most career W

127

304th-most career CG

SHO

1,546

SO (P)

685

BB allowed

344

ERA

3.342

337th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1921

149th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.99

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1933-07-25	CAG @ TIC Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	3	1	5
1935-08-04	ND @ NE Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	1	0	4
1930-08-23	KCM @ CAG Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	2	0	3
1932-05-15	HOM @ DTW Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	1	3
1935-06-17	CAG @ ND Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-08-08	CUB @ KCM Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	0	13	0
1930-06-28	KCM @ DTS Gameday	9.0	12	4	4	1	11	0
1932-05-01	DTW @ CAG Gameday	8.0	3	5	1	3	10	0
1933-09-08	TIC @ CAG Gameday	9.0	8	5	3	3	9	0
1935-05-28	TIC @ PHS Gameday	9.0	12	9	8	3	9	1

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.