Bill Killefer

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-10, 170lb (178cm, 77kg)

Born: October 10, 1887 in Bloomingdale, MI us

Died: July 3, 1960 in Elsmere, DE

Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Paw Paw, MI

High School: Paw Paw HS (Paw Paw, MI)

Schools: Sacred Heart College (Watertown, WI), St. Edward's University (Austin, TX)

Debut: September 13, 1909 (Age 21-338d, 3,232nd in major league history)
vs. DET 3 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 SB

Last Game: October 1, 1921 (Age 33-356d)
vs. CIN 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1910 season

Full Name: William Killefer

Nicknames: Reindeer Bill

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Relatives: Brother of Red Killefer

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

9.8

3150

751

.238

237

RBI

240

OBP

.273

SLG

.283

OPS

.556

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1914 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1914 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 14	PHI		NYG	W,10-1	CG	36	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
2	2	Apr 17	PHI		NYG	W,3-1	CG	36	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
3	3	Apr 18	PHI		BSN	W,5-3	CG	36	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
4	5 (1)	Apr 22	PHI		BSN	W,3-1	CG	35	9.0	8	1	0	9	1
5	6	Apr 23	PHI	@	NYG	L,4-12	CG	42	8.0	4	2	1	7	0
6	7	Apr 24	PHI	@	NYG	W,8-2	CG	40	9.0	4	3	1	8	0
7	8	Apr 27	PHI	@	NYG	L,3-4	CG	37	8.0	6	3	0	9	0
8	9	Apr 29	PHI	@	BRO	W,6-2	CG	36	9.0	8	1	0	9	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
9	10	May 1	PHI	@	BRO	W,8-6	CG	41	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
10	11	May 2	PHI	@	BSN	W,6-2	CG	0	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
11	12	May 4	PHI	@	BSN	L,7-10	CG	0	8.0	8	1	1	10	0
12	13	May 7	PHI		BRO	L,5-6	CG	43	9.0	9	4	0	13	0
13	15 (1)	May 11	PHI		BRO	W,2-1	CG	32	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
14	16	May 13	PHI	@	STL	L,3-5	CG	0	8.0	7	5	0	12	0
15	17	May 14	PHI	@	STL	W,5-3	CG	0	14.0	8	1	0	9	0
16	18	May 15	PHI	@	STL	L,3-6	GS	0		1	1	0	2	0
17	22 (3)	May 19	PHI	@	CHC	L,1-6	CG	38	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
18	23	May 20	PHI	@	CHC	L,5-10	GF	32	7.0	2	0	3	5	0
19	27 (3)	May 25	PHI	@	CIN	W,6-4	CG	0	9.0	4	5	0	9	0
20	28	May 26	PHI	@	CIN	L,0-10	GS	0		0	4	1	5	0
21	32 (3)	May 30 (1)	PHI		BSN	W,8-7	GF	0		3	1	0	4	0
22	33	May 30 (2)	PHI		BSN	L,2-3	GF	18	5.0	5	0	0	5	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
23	35 (1)	Jun 2 (1)	PHI		NYG	W,9-2	CG	36	9.0	3	3	0	6	0
24	36	Jun 2 (2)	PHI		NYG	L,0-7	GS	33	7.0	4	3	0	7	1
25	37	Jun 3	PHI		NYG	W,10-3	CG	36	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
26	38	Jun 5	PHI		PIT	W,13-3	GS	34	8.0	5	0	0	5	0
27	39	Jun 6	PHI		PIT	L,2-5	CG	37	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
28	40	Jun 8	PHI		PIT	L,5-7	CG	41	9.0	8	1	0	9	0
29	41	Jun 9	PHI		PIT	W,3-1	CG	34	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
30	42	Jun 10	PHI		CIN	L,2-8	GS	30	7.0	2	1	0	3	0
31	43	Jun 11	PHI		CIN	W,3-2	CG	34	9.0	7	3	0	10	1
32	45 (1)	Jun 13	PHI		CIN	W,5-4	CG	62	15.0	11	2	1	14	0
33	46	Jun 16	PHI		STL	L,3-4	CG	0	9.0	6	2	0	8	0
34	47	Jun 17	PHI		STL	W,5-4	GS	35	9.0	5	4	0	9	0
35	49 (1)	Jun 19	PHI		CHC	L,7-8	GF	28	7.0	3	3	1	7	0
36	50	Jun 20	PHI		CHC	L,4-5	CG	36	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
37	51	Jun 23	PHI		STL	L,5-7	CG	39	9.0	2	3	1	6	0
38	53 (1)	Jun 24 (2)	PHI		BRO	W,6-1	CG	37	9.0	10	1	0	11	0
39	54	Jun 25	PHI		BRO	W,8-7	GS	18	4.0	2	3	0	5	0
40	57 (2)	Jun 27 (2)	PHI	@	BRO	L,4-10	GS	27	5.0	4	1	0	5	0
41	58	Jun 30 (1)	PHI	@	BSN	W,5-4	CG	0	13.0	10	2	0	12	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
42	61 (2)	Jul 1 (2)	PHI	@	BSN	W,5-0	CG	0	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
43	62	Jul 3	PHI	@	NYG	L,3-6	CG	36	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
44	63	Jul 4 (1)	PHI	@	NYG	L,4-5	CG	0	8.0	3	5	0	8	0
45	65 (1)	Jul 6 (1)	PHI	@	NYG	L,4-5	CG	33	8.0	7	2	1	10	1
46	67 (1)	Jul 8	PHI	@	PIT	W,10-7	CG	41	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
47	68	Jul 9	PHI	@	PIT	W,1-0	CG	34	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
48	70 (1)	Jul 11	PHI	@	PIT	L,1-3	CG	35	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
49	72 (1)	Jul 14 (1)	PHI	@	CIN	W,5-3	CG	0	9.0	4	4	0	8	0
50	74 (1)	Jul 15	PHI	@	CIN	L,4-6	GS	0		6	1	0	7	0
51	75	Jul 16	PHI	@	STL	W,6-3	CG	0	10.0	6	0	0	6	0
52	77 (1)	Jul 18	PHI	@	STL	L,5-6	CG	0	8.2	6	4	0	10	1
53	78	Jul 19	PHI	@	STL	L,4-5	CG	0	8.1	6	1	1	8	0
54	81 (2)	Jul 22	PHI	@	CHC	L,2-4	CG	31	8.0	5	2	0	7	0
55	83 (1)	Jul 24	PHI	@	PIT	L,2-3	CG	33	8.0	4	1	0	5	1
56	84	Jul 25	PHI		STL	W,3-0	CG	38	9.0	5	1	0	6	1
57	85	Jul 27 (1)	PHI		STL	L,4-9	CG	43	9.0	9	3	0	12	2
58	89 (3)	Jul 30 (2)	PHI		CHC	L,1-5	CG	39	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
59	91 (1)	Aug 1	PHI		CHC	W,10-4	CG	38	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
60	92	Aug 3	PHI		CHC	W,5-0	CG	32	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
61	93	Aug 4	PHI		CIN	W,4-3	GF	0	2.0	3	0	0	3	0
62	94	Aug 5	PHI		CIN	W,5-0	CG	31	9.0	3	6	0	9	0
63	95	Aug 6	PHI		CIN	L,2-4	CG	40	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
64	96	Aug 7	PHI		CIN	W,2-0	CG	31	9.0	11	2	0	13	0
65	97	Aug 8	PHI		PIT	L,3-4	GS	31	8.0	5	1	0	6	0
66	98	Aug 10	PHI		PIT	L,2-4	GF	25	6.0	4	1	0	5	0
67	99	Aug 11	PHI		PIT	W,5-4	CG	38	9.0	10	2	1	13	0
68	101 (1)	Aug 14	PHI	@	BRO	W,8-7	CG	45	9.0	5	3	0	8	1
69	102	Aug 15 (1)	PHI	@	BRO	L,4-8	CG	41	8.0	5	0	0	5	0
70	104 (1)	Aug 17	PHI	@	STL	L,1-4	CG	0	8.0	5	3	0	8	0
71	105	Aug 18	PHI	@	STL	L,2-6	CG	0	8.0	6	0	0	6	0
72	113 (7)	Aug 30 (1)	PHI	@	CIN	W,4-2	CG	0	9.0	7	2	0	9	0
73	114	Aug 30 (2)	PHI	@	CIN	W,2-1	CG	0	10.0	5	2	0	7	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
74	115	Sep 2 (1)	PHI		BSN	L,5-7	CG	41	9.0	7	2	0	9	0
75	117 (1)	Sep 3	PHI		BSN	W,7-4	CG	43	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
76	118	Sep 4	PHI		BSN	L,5-6	CG	55	12.0	5	1	0	6	0
77	119	Sep 5	PHI		BSN	L,1-7	GS	12	2.0	2	0	0	2	0
78	123 (3)	Sep 9 (1)	PHI	@	BSN	W,10-3	CG	38	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
79	128 (4)	Sep 12 (1)	PHI		NYG	W,1-0	CG	32	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
80	129	Sep 12 (2)	PHI		NYG	L,0-8	GS	20	4.0	0	1	0	1	0
81	132 (2)	Sep 15	PHI		NYG	W,4-3	CG	39	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
82	133	Sep 16	PHI		PIT	W,6-2	CG	35	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
83	137 (3)	Sep 19 (1)	PHI		STL	W,7-0	CG	28	9.0	12	1	0	13	0
84	138	Sep 19 (2)	PHI		STL	W,7-6	GS	14	3.0	3	2	0	5	0
85	141 (2)	Sep 23	PHI		CHC	W,9-4	CG	36	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
86	142	Sep 24 (1)	PHI		CHC	L,3-6	CG	42	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
87	146 (3)	Sep 26 (2)	PHI		CIN	W,7-4	CG	38	9.0	9	1	0	10	0
88	148 (1)	Sep 30	PHI		BRO	L,1-2	CG	36	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
89	150 (1)	Oct 3 (1)	PHI	@	BRO	L,2-3	CG	35	8.0	7	3	1	11	0
90	154 (3)	Oct 6 (2)	PHI	@	NYG	W,8-0	CG	23	7.0	3	5	0	8	0
							90gm		743.0	464	154	14	632	11