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Player Notes: � Opening Day Starter for Chicago White Sox in 1951-1952,1954,1956-1959 ... The Chicago White Sox retired his #19 on July 25, 1987

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Pitching Statistics

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Year	Team	League	Lvl	Org	Unif	Pos	Age	W	L	ERA	G	GS	GR	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	HB	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	K-BB	Wpct	FIP
1945	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	5,20	Rel	18	0	0	1.80	5	0	5	0	0	4	0	10.0	6	2	2	1	10	10	0	0	0	1.60	5.40	0.90	9.00	9.00	1.00	-	4.84
1948	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	10	S/R	21	3	0	6.34	22	5	17	0	0	9	0	55.0	47	40	39	5	51	36	1	0	0	1.77	7.64	0.81	8.30	5.86	0.71	1.000	5.30
1949	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	22	7	15	3.88	32	26	6	8	0	4	0	171.2	145	89	74	11	112	95	5	2	0	1.50	7.60	0.58	5.87	4.98	0.85	.318	4.19
1950	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	23	12	16	3.98	33	29	4	15	1	3	1	219.0	189	112	97	11	137	118	4	0	0	1.49	7.76	0.45	5.62	4.84	0.86	.429	4.03
1951	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	24	15	14	3.03	37	28	9	18	1	6	2	240.0	237	93	81	14	73	113	1	0	0	1.29	8.88	0.52	2.73	4.23	1.55	.517	3.21
1952	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	25	15	12	2.57	33	32	1	14	4	1	1	255.0	214	76	73	12	79	144	3	0	0	1.15	7.54	0.42	2.78	5.08	1.82	.556	2.80
1953	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	26	18	12	2.72	40	33	7	19	7	6	3	271.0	216	94	82	20	102	186	5	0	0	1.17	7.16	0.66	3.38	6.17	1.82	.600	3.31
1954	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	27	9	10	3.48	36	26	10	12	4	4	3	188.2	179	86	73	15	86	148	3	1	0	1.40	8.54	0.72	4.10	7.06	1.72	.474	3.23
1955	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	28	15	10	1.97	33	26	7	16	6	5	1	205.2	162	50	45	16	64	157	4	1	0	1.10	7.09	0.70	2.80	6.87	2.45	.600	2.79
1956	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	29	20	9	3.32	35	33	2	21	1	2	1	276.0	261	108	102	24	100	192	6	1	0	1.31	8.50	0.78	3.26	6.25	1.92	.690	3.19
1957	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	30	20	12	3.26	37	34	3	16	4	2	2	257.0	228	98	93	18	71	171	3	1	1	1.16	7.98	0.63	2.49	5.99	2.41	.625	2.88
1958	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	31	17	11	2.68	35	32	3	19	3	3	2	245.0	204	83	73	33	66	144	1	0	1	1.10	7.49	1.21	2.42	5.29	2.18	.607	3.87
1959	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	32	14	15	3.62	34	33	1	12	2	0	0	224.0	217	98	90	26	62	114	2	1	3	1.25	8.72	1.04	2.49	4.58	1.84	.483	3.90
1960	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	33	14	7	3.62	32	30	2	8	1	1	0	196.0	201	81	79	24	46	108	2	0	0	1.26	9.21	1.10	2.11	4.95	2.35	.667	3.72
1961	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	ST	34	10	9	3.80	39	28	11	5	1	5	3	180.0	190	85	76	17	54	106	2	0	1	1.36	9.50	0.85	2.70	5.30	1.96	.526	3.54
1962	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	19	S/R	35	16	6	3.49	30	23	7	7	2	2	1	162.0	147	67	63	19	35	76	2	1	3	1.12	8.15	1.05	1.94	4.21	2.17	.727	3.90
1963	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	40	S/R	36	3	11	4.27	38	13	25	3	1	13	8	99.0	106	49	47	12	20	52	3	2	1	1.27	9.64	1.09	1.82	4.73	2.60	.214	3.64
1964	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	19	Rel	37	3	0	2.20	34	1	33	0	0	14	4	49.0	40	14	12	6	10	29	1	0	0	1.02	7.35	1.10	1.84	5.33	2.90	1.000	3.63
MLB Totals - 18 Season(s)Filter								211	169	3.27	585	432	153	193	38	84	32	3303.2	2989	1325	1201	284	1178	1999	48	10	10	1.26	8.14	0.77	3.21	5.44	1.70	.555	0.99
Chicago White Sox Totals - 13 Season(s)Filter								186	152	3.19	456	390	66	183	35	42	19	2928.0	2643	1153	1038	241	1052	1796	41	7	6	1.26	8.12	0.74	3.23	5.51	1.71	.550	-
San Francisco Giants Totals - 3 Season(s)Filter								22	17	3.54	102	37	65	10	3	29	13	310.0	293	130	122	37	65	157	6	3	4	1.15	8.50	1.07	1.89	4.55	2.42	.564	-
Detroit Tigers Totals - 2 Season(s)Filter								3	0	5.65	27	5	22	0	0	13	0	65.0	53	42	41	6	61	46	1	0	0	1.74	7.30	0.83	8.40	6.34	0.75	1.000	-
Average MLB - Per ~220 innings								14	11	3.27	39	29	10	13	3	6	2	220.0	199	88	80	19	78	133	3	1	1	1.26	8.14	0.77	3.21	5.44	1.70	.560	0.99

Batting Statistics

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Year	Team	League	Lvl	Org	Unif	Pos	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	XBH	PA	babip	ISO	SecA	wOBA	BB%	SO%	K-BB	HR%	AB/HR	XBH%
1945	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	5,20	p	18	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.00	50.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1948	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	10	p	21	22	17	5	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	.294	.294	.529	.823	9	2	17	.385	.235	.235	.363	0.00	23.53	0.00	0.00	0.00	40.00
1949	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	22	39	51	7	9	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	15	0	6	0	0	2	.176	.250	.176	.426	9	0	62	.250	.000	.098	.218	8.06	24.19	3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1950	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	23	40	77	10	20	3	0	0	6	0	0	6	13	1	4	0	0	1	.260	.321	.299	.620	23	3	88	.313	.039	.117	.297	6.82	14.77	2.17	0.00	0.00	15.00
1951	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	24	39	79	10	16	1	0	0	3	0	1	9	17	0	5	0	0	2	.203	.284	.215	.499	17	1	93	.258	.012	.114	.248	9.68	18.28	1.89	0.00	0.00	6.25
1952	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	25	35	91	11	17	1	0	0	3	0	1	6	20	0	5	0	0	3	.187	.237	.198	.435	18	1	102	.239	.011	.066	.212	5.88	19.61	3.33	0.00	0.00	5.88
1953	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	26	42	87	4	11	0	0	0	4	0	0	4	16	1	10	0	0	3	.126	.174	.126	.300	11	0	102	.155	.000	.046	.150	3.92	15.69	4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1954	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	27	38	57	4	11	0	0	0	5	0	0	4	12	0	6	1	0	0	.193	.242	.193	.435	11	0	68	.239	.000	.070	.211	5.88	17.65	3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1955	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	28	34	70	5	12	2	0	0	7	1	0	3	10	0	8	0	0	0	.171	.205	.200	.405	14	2	81	.200	.029	.086	.190	3.70	12.35	3.33	0.00	0.00	16.67
1956	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	29	39	102	6	16	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	22	1	7	0	0	3	.157	.189	.157	.346	16	0	113	.200	.000	.029	.164	2.65	19.47	7.33	0.00	0.00	0.00
1957	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	30	41	99	7	17	1	0	0	6	0	0	2	25	0	3	0	0	3	.172	.188	.182	.370	18	1	104	.230	.010	.030	.170	1.92	24.04	12.50	0.00	0.00	5.88
1958	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	31	35	83	10	17	3	0	0	4	0	0	4	13	1	6	0	0	0	.205	.250	.241	.491	20	3	94	.243	.036	.084	.227	4.26	13.83	3.25	0.00	0.00	17.65
1959	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	32	34	68	3	13	1	2	0	7	0	0	7	13	0	6	0	0	1	.191	.267	.265	.532	18	3	81	.236	.074	.176	.247	8.64	16.05	1.86	0.00	0.00	23.08
1960	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	33	32	67	4	12	1	0	0	7	0	0	6	14	0	3	0	0	2	.179	.247	.194	.441	13	1	76	.226	.015	.104	.212	7.89	18.42	2.33	0.00	0.00	8.33
1961	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	19	p	34	39	56	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	11	0	6	0	0	2	.143	.158	.143	.301	8	0	63	.178	.000	.018	.139	1.59	17.46	11.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1962	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	19	p	35	30	56	3	12	0	0	0	5	0	0	3	12	0	7	0	0	1	.214	.254	.214	.468	12	0	66	.273	.000	.054	.220	4.55	18.18	4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1963	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	40	p	36	38	31	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	11	0	1	0	0	0	.129	.182	.129	.311	4	0	34	.200	.000	.065	.150	5.88	32.35	5.50	0.00	0.00	0.00
1964	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	19	p	37	34	9	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.666	3	0	9	.500	.000	.000	.298	0.00	33.33	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
MLB Totals - 18 Season(s)Filter								616	1102	94	203	13	4	0	69	1	2	65	232	4	83	1	0	24	.184	.232	.203	.435	224	17	1255	.233	.019	.077	.000	5.18	18.49	3.57	0.00	0.00	8.37
Chicago White Sox Totals - 13 Season(s)Filter								487	987	84	179	13	2	0	60	1	2	60	201	4	75	1	0	22	.181	.231	.199	.430	196	15	1127	.227	.018	.077	.000	5.32	17.83	3.35	0.00	0.00	8.38
San Francisco Giants Totals - 3 Season(s)Filter								102	96	5	19	0	0	0	7	0	0	5	26	0	8	0	0	1	.198	.238	.198	.436	19	0	109	.271	.000	.052	.000	4.59	23.85	5.20	0.00	0.00	0.00
Detroit Tigers Totals - 2 Season(s)Filter								27	19	5	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	.263	.263	.474	.737	9	2	19	.357	.211	.211	.000	0.00	26.32	0.00	0.00	0.00	40.00
Average MLB - Per 162 games								162	290	25	53	3	1	0	18	0	1	17	61	1	22	0	0	6	.184	.232	.203	.435	59	4	330	.233	.019	.077	.000	5.18	18.49	3.57	0.00	0.00	8.37

Fielding Statistics

Year	Team Name	Lg	Level	Org	Age	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	TC	TSC	FPct	RFg	RFi	SB	CS	SB%	PB	GP	Pos-Share	Tm-Share
1945	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	18	P	5	-	10	-	2	-	-	2	2	1.000	0.40	0.20	-	-	--	-	5	100.0	3.3
1948	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	21	P	22	-	55	2	9	-	-	11	11	1.000	0.50	0.20	-	-	--	-	22	100.0	14.3
1949	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	22	P	32	-	171	12	33	4	2	49	45	.918	1.41	0.26	-	-	--	-	39	82.1	20.8
1950	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	23	P	33	-	219	4	30	1	1	35	34	.971	1.03	0.16	-	-	--	-	40	82.5	21.4
1951	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	24	P	37	-	240	11	38	2	4	51	49	.961	1.32	0.20	-	-	--	-	39	94.9	24.0
1952	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	25	P	33	-	255	13	43	1	3	57	56	.982	1.70	0.22	-	-	--	-	35	94.3	21.4
1953	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	26	P	40	-	271	10	33	4	1	47	43	.915	1.08	0.16	-	-	--	-	42	95.2	26.0
1953	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	26	1B	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	1.000	1.00	-	-	-	--	-	42	2.4	0.6
1954	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	27	P	36	-	188	7	19	1	1	27	26	.963	0.72	0.14	-	-	--	-	38	94.7	23.4
1955	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	28	P	33	-	205	7	25	-	1	32	32	1.000	0.97	0.16	-	-	--	-	34	97.1	21.4
1956	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	29	P	35	-	276	4	33	3	2	40	37	.925	1.06	0.13	-	-	--	-	39	89.7	22.7
1957	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	30	P	37	-	257	8	45	2	2	55	53	.964	1.43	0.21	-	-	--	-	41	90.2	24.0
1958	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	31	P	35	-	245	11	26	1	3	38	37	.974	1.06	0.15	-	-	--	-	35	100.0	22.7
1959	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	32	P	34	-	224	11	40	2	4	53	51	.962	1.50	0.23	-	-	--	-	34	100.0	22.1
1960	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	33	P	32	-	196	7	29	2	2	38	36	.947	1.13	0.18	-	-	--	-	32	100.0	20.8
1961	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	34	P	39	-	180	7	31	3	1	41	38	.927	0.97	0.21	-	-	--	-	39	100.0	24.1
1962	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	35	P	30	-	162	4	24	1	3	29	28	.966	0.93	0.17	-	-	--	-	30	100.0	18.2
1963	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	36	P	38	-	99	4	20	-	2	24	24	1.000	0.63	0.24	-	-	--	-	38	100.0	23.5
1964	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	37	P	34	-	49	1	7	1	-	9	8	.889	0.24	0.16	-	-	--	-	34	100.0	21.0
MLB Totals for P - 18 season(s)				-	�	P	585	-	3302	123	487	28	32	638	610	.956	1.04	0.18	-	-	--	-	585	0.0	0.0
MLB Totals for 1B - 1 season(s)				-	�	1B	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	1.000	1.00	-	-	-	--	-	1	0.0	0.0

Fielding Statistics - Position Grid

Year	Team Name	League	Level	Org	Age	P	C	1B	2B	SS	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH
1945	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	18	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1948	Detroit Tigers	AL	MLB	det	21	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1949	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	22	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1950	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	23	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1951	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	24	37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1952	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	25	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1953	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	26	40	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1954	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	27	36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1955	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	28	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1956	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	29	35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1957	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	30	37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	31	35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1959	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	32	34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1960	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	33	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1961	Chicago White Sox	AL	MLB	cha	34	39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1962	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	35	30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1963	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	36	38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964	San Francisco Giants	NL	MLB	sfn	37	34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Year	Team	League	Category	Age	W	L	ERA	G	GS	GR	CG	SHO	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	HB	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	K-BB	RA9	WPct
1959	Chicago White Sox	World Series	MLB	32	0	0	0.00	3			0			0	4.0	2		0		2	3			0	1.00	4.50	0.00	4.50	6.75	1.50	0.00	.000
1962	San Francisco Giants	World Series	MLB	35	1	1	2.40	2			1			0	15.0	8		4		2	5			0	0.67	4.80	0.00	1.20	3.00	2.50	0.00	.500
MLB Playoffs - World Series Totals - 2 yrs					1	1	1.89	5	0	5	1	0	0	0	19.0	10	0	4	0	4	8	0	0		0.74	4.74	0.00	1.89	3.79	2.00	0.00	.500

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Year	Team	League	Category	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	XBH	PA	babip	ISO	SecA	BB%	SO%	K-BB	HR%	AB/HR	XBH%
1962	San Francisco Giants	World Series	MLB	35	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	0.00	20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
MLB Playoffs - World Series Totals - 1 yrs					2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	0.00	20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

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Tranx Date	Pos	Organization	Assignment	40m	Status	Type	Transaction Description	Age	Roster for Current Team
1964-10-06							Released by Giants.		�
1964-04-13						Contract	Signed as Free Agent by Giants.		�
1963-12-02							Released by Giants.		�
1961-11-30						Trade	Traded by White Sox with Don Larsen to Giants for Verle Tiefenthaler, Bob Farley, Dom Zanni and Eddie Fisher.		�
1948-11-10						Trade	Traded by Tigers with Cash to White Sox for Aaron Robinson.		�
1945-01-01						Contract	Signed as undrafted amateur Free Agent by Tigers.		�

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Other Pitching Statistics

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Jobs in Baseball

Roster Transactions

Billy PierceTrack this Player High Level: MLB Stat Years: 1945-1964 MLB Years: 1945-1964
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