Billy Sullivan

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

5-9, 155lb (175cm, 70kg)

Born: February 1, 1875 in Oakland, WI us

Died: January 28, 1965 in Newberg, OR

Buried: St James Catholic Cemetery, McMinnville, OR

High School: Fort Atkinson HS (Fort Atkinson, WI)

Debut: September 13, 1899 (Age 24-224d, 2,183rd in major league history)

Last Game: April 15, 1916 (Age 41-074d)
vs. CHW 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1900 season

Full Name: William Joseph Sullivan

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Relatives: Father of Billy Sullivan

1906 World Series

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

8.7

3647

777

.213

363

RBI

378

OBP

.254

SLG

.281

OPS

.536

OPS+

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

1909 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1909 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 14	CHW	@	DET	L,0-2	CG	0	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
2	2	Apr 15	CHW	@	DET	L,1-3	CG	0	8.0	6	0	0	6	0
3	4 (1)	Apr 17	CHW	@	SLB	W,3-1	CG	0	10.0	2	1	0	3	0
4	5	Apr 18	CHW	@	SLB	L,2-6	CG	0	8.0	4	2	0	6	0
5	6	Apr 22	CHW		DET	W,3-1	CG	0	9.0	7	1	1	9	0
6	7	Apr 23	CHW		DET	L,1-3	CG	0	11.0	8	2	2	12	0
7	8	Apr 24	CHW		DET	W,3-1	CG	0	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
8	9	Apr 25	CHW		SLB	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
9	10	Apr 26	CHW		SLB	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
10	11	Apr 27	CHW		SLB	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
11	12	May 2	CHW		DET	L,5-6	CG	0	9.0	7	2	1	10	0
12	13	May 3	CHW		DET	W,4-0	CG	0	9.0	6	1	1	8	0
13	14	May 4	CHW	@	CLE	L,2-10	CG	0	8.0	5	2	0	7	0
14	17 (2)	May 8	CHW	@	CLE	L,4-8	GS	0		6	2	0	8	0
15	20 (2)	May 10	CHW		WSH	W,1-0	CG	0	11.0	6	0	0	6	0
16	21	May 11	CHW		WSH	W,5-3	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
17	22	May 12	CHW		WSH	L,2-6	GS	0		4	3	0	7	0
18	23	May 13	CHW		WSH	T,1-1	CG	0	17.0	5	1	0	6	0
19	25 (1)	May 16	CHW		PHA	L,0-1	CG	0	13.0	9	1	0	10	0
20	26	May 17	CHW		PHA	L,0-1	CG	0	12.0	8	4	0	12	0
21	27	May 18	CHW		PHA	L,0-5	GS	0		2	1	0	3	0
22	28	May 19	CHW		BOS	L,2-5	GS	0		3	0	0	3	1
23	31 (2)	May 22	CHW		BOS	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
24	32	May 23	CHW		NYY	W,7-3	CG	0	9.0	8	1	0	9	0
25	33	May 24	CHW		NYY	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
26	34	May 27	CHW		NYY	T,2-2	CG	0	10.0	8	0	0	8	0
27	35	May 28	CHW	@	DET	L,1-2	CG	0	13.2	6	2	0	8	0
28	36	May 29	CHW	@	DET	L,3-4	CG	0	8.0	2	3	1	6	0
29	37	May 30	CHW		DET	L,1-3	GS	0		3	1	0	4	0
30	38	May 31 (1)	CHW		DET	L,1-5	CG	0	9.0	9	2	1	12	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
31	40 (1)	Jun 2	CHW	@	PHA	L,4-5	CG	0	8.0	7	0	0	7	0
32	41	Jun 3	CHW	@	PHA	W,9-6	GF	0		1	1	0	2	0
33	44 (2)	Jun 12	CHW	@	NYY	W,5-3	CG	0	9.0	8	1	0	9	0
34	46 (1)	Jun 15	CHW	@	NYY	W,7-3	CG	0	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
35	47	Jun 16	CHW	@	BOS	W,6-4	CG	0	9.0	3	3	0	6	0
36	49 (1)	Jun 17 (2)	CHW	@	BOS	L,1-6	GS	0		5	1	0	6	0
37	50	Jun 19	CHW	@	DET	L,4-5	GF	0		2	0	1	3	0
38	52 (1)	Jun 20 (2)	CHW		CLE	L,0-5	GS	0		8	3	0	11	1
39	54 (1)	Jun 22 (2)	CHW		CLE	L,0-2	GS	0		3	1	0	4	0
40	55	Jun 23	CHW	@	CLE	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	6	2	0	8	0
41	56	Jun 24	CHW	@	CLE	L,1-8	CG	0	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
42	58 (1)	Jun 27 (1)	CHW		DET	L,0-1	CG	0	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
43	59	Jun 27 (2)	CHW		DET	W,5-3	GF	0		1	0	0	1	0
44	60	Jun 28	CHW		DET	L,1-2	CG	0	10.0	4	0	0	4	1
45	62 (1)	Jun 30	CHW		SLB	L,3-4	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
46	63	Jul 1	CHW		SLB	L,0-2	GS	0		4	2	0	6	0
47	66 (2)	Jul 4	CHW		CLE	L,0-3	GS	0		2	1	0	3	0
48	68 (1)	Jul 5 (2)	CHW	@	CLE	L,2-4	CG	0	8.0	8	1	0	9	0
49	69	Jul 6	CHW	@	SLB	W,5-4	CG	0	9.0	6	1	0	7	0
50	70	Jul 8 (1)	CHW	@	SLB	L,1-5	CG	0	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
51	72 (1)	Jul 9	CHW		BOS	L,1-2	CG	0	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
52	73	Jul 10	CHW		BOS	W,6-1	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
53	75 (1)	Jul 12	CHW		BOS	L,3-4	CG	0	10.0	7	2	0	9	0
54	77 (1)	Jul 13 (2)	CHW		NYY	W,6-2	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
55	78	Jul 14 (1)	CHW		NYY	L,3-4	CG	0	9.0	4	1	0	5	1
56	80 (1)	Jul 15	CHW		NYY	W,9-0	CG	0	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
57	81	Jul 16	CHW		NYY	W,3-1	GS	0		1	1	0	2	0
58	83 (1)	Jul 18	CHW		WSH	W,3-0	CG	0	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
59	84	Jul 19	CHW		WSH	W,12-2	GF	0		5	0	1	6	0
60	85	Jul 20	CHW		WSH	W,6-1	CG	0	9.0	8	3	0	11	0
61	87 (1)	Jul 22	CHW		PHA	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
62	88	Jul 23	CHW		PHA	W,3-0	GF	0		4	0	0	4	0
63	89	Jul 24	CHW		PHA	W,5-1	CG	0	9.0	12	1	0	13	0
64	90	Jul 25	CHW		PHA	W,3-0	CG	0	9.0	6	2	0	8	0
65	92 (1)	Jul 29 (2)	CHW	@	WSH	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
66	94 (1)	Jul 30 (2)	CHW	@	WSH	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	7	1	0	8	1
67	96 (1)	Jul 31 (2)	CHW	@	WSH	W,4-0	CG	0	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
68	98 (1)	Aug 3 (2)	CHW	@	PHA	L,4-10	CG	0	8.0	3	2	0	5	0
69	99	Aug 5 (1)	CHW	@	PHA	L,0-3	CG	0	8.0	10	0	0	10	0
70	102 (2)	Aug 7	CHW	@	BOS	L,0-3	CG	0	8.0	3	3	0	6	0
71	103	Aug 9	CHW	@	BOS	L,1-2	GF	0		1	0	0	1	0
72	104	Aug 10	CHW	@	BOS	L,2-3	CG	0	8.0	5	0	0	5	0
73	105	Aug 11	CHW	@	NYY	L,1-2	CG	0	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
74	111 (5)	Aug 18	CHW	@	DET	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	7	3	0	10	0
75	112	Aug 19	CHW	@	DET	L,0-1	CG	0	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
76	114 (1)	Aug 22	CHW		NYY	L,5-6	CG	0	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
77	116 (1)	Aug 24	CHW		BOS	L,2-5	CG	0	9.0	5	0	0	5	1
78	118 (1)	Aug 26 (1)	CHW		BOS	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	4	3	0	7	0
79	119	Aug 26 (2)	CHW		BOS	L,0-3	CG	0	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
80	121 (1)	Aug 28 (2)	CHW		WSH	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
81	124 (2)	Aug 31	CHW		PHA	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	8	1	0	9	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
82	127 (2)	Sep 3	CHW		SLB	W,4-3	GS	0		3	0	0	3	0
83	128	Sep 4	CHW		SLB	L,1-2	CG	0	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
84	131 (2)	Sep 6 (2)	CHW	@	CLE	W,5-3	CG	0	9.0	5	3	0	8	0
85	133 (1)	Sep 8 (2)	CHW	@	SLB	W,4-0	CG	0	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
86	136 (2)	Sep 10 (2)	CHW	@	SLB	L,0-2	CG	0	8.0	4	2	0	6	0
87	138 (1)	Sep 11 (2)	CHW	@	SLB	L,1-3	CG	0	8.0	11	0	0	11	0
88	139	Sep 12	CHW		CLE	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
89	140	Sep 13	CHW		CLE	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
90	141	Sep 14	CHW		CLE	T,4-4	GS	0		1	1	0	2	0
91	142	Sep 16	CHW	@	BOS	W,7-5	CG	0	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
92	147 (4)	Sep 23 (1)	CHW	@	NYY	L,2-4	CG	0	8.0	5	2	0	7	0
93	149 (1)	Sep 25 (1)	CHW	@	WSH	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	3	0	0	3	1
94	154 (4)	Sep 29 (2)	CHW	@	PHA	L,1-10	GS	0		1	0	1	2	0
95	157 (2)	Oct 1	CHW	@	PHA	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	6	3	0	9	0
96	158	Oct 2	CHW	@	DET	T,6-6	GS	0		5	0	0	5	0
							97gm		776.0	452	119	10	581	6