MLB / Players

Willie Kamm

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1900 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1923

Final gameMay 22, 1935

Seasons13 (1923–1935)

Chicago White Sox 1923–1931; Cleveland Indians 1931–1935

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

133

50.3

517

42.3

447

38.9

49.7

126

37.6

18.8

22.1

RBI

46.3

74.5

43.6

70.5

24.8

.282

OBP

.359

64.4

SLG

.336

20.1

OPS

.695

32.9

wRC+

85.9

27.5

OPS+

82.7

24.2

wOBA

.333

39.6

sWAR

0.9

43.6

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 468 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.7

41.1

OPS+

97.1

35.8

sWAR

24.7

95.2

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
1923	149	626	544	57	159	39	9	6	87	62	82	18	13	.292	.366	.430	.796	109.1	109.7	.374	3.0
1924	147	626	528	58	134	28	6	6	93	64	59	10	9	.254	.337	.364	.700	81.9	81.6	.336	0.8
1925	152	640	509	82	142	32	4	6	83	90	36	11	13	.279	.391	.393	.784	108.0	103.8	.376	2.8
1926	143	578	480	63	141	24	10	0	62	77	24	12	4	.294	.396	.385	.781	113.2	108.6	.376	3.1
1927	148	635	540	85	146	32	13	0	59	70	18	8	9	.270	.354	.378	.732	94.5	92.8	.347	1.8
1928	155	655	552	70	170	30	12	1	84	73	22	17	9	.308	.391	.411	.802	115.2	112.3	.376	3.6
1929	147	619	523	72	140	33	6	3	63	75	23	12	5	.268	.363	.371	.734	93.1	89.8	.346	1.7
1930	112	396	331	49	89	21	6	3	47	51	20	5	4	.269	.368	.396	.764	98.7	95.5	.354	1.4
1931	132	553	469	77	136	35	5	0	75	71	19	14	10	.290	.384	.386	.770	102.4	98.6	.365	2.1
1932	148	615	524	76	150	34	9	3	83	75	36	6	3	.286	.379	.403	.781	100.9	98.3	.365	2.3
1933	133	517	447	59	126	17	2	1	47	54	27	6	3	.282	.359	.336	.695	85.9	82.7	.333	0.9
1934	121	457	386	52	104	23	3	0	42	62	38	7	1	.269	.372	.345	.716	91.0	86.0	.347	1.1
1935	6	18	18	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	68.0	72.1	.309	0.0

Career totals

1,693

6,935

479th-most career PA

5,851

802

1,643

348

321st-most career 2B

249th-most career 3B

RBI

826

488th-most career RBI

824

248th-most career BB

405

126

.2808

OBP

.3717

263rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3842

OPS

.7559

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
1925-06-02	CWS @ DET Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	1	5	0	9
1926-07-03	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	1	2	0	1	0	9
1923-07-14	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1932-09-15	BOS @ CLE Gameday	3	2	3	0	1	1	3	1	8
1929-09-09	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	2	0	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-18	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-19	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-20	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-21	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-22	CWS @ BAL 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.