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Bill Donovan
	William Edward Donovan
	(Wild Bill)

	Born: October 13, 1876 in Lawrence, MA
	Died: December 9, 1923 - 47 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 5'11"	Wt: 190

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Notes:
- Visit Donovan's Managerial Page

Comparison

Starting Pitchers				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	DQ	Mil	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Cy Young	1890 - 1911	SP	168.5	Pl			-1.5	-0.3	170.3	0.0
2	Walter Johnson	1907 - 1927	SP	165.6	Pl			13.3	-0.1	152.3	-0.0
3	Pete Alexander	1911 - 1930	SP	120.1	Pl		WW1	3.3	-0.2	117.0	0.0
4	Kid Nichols	1890 - 1906	SP	116.4	Pl			0.2	-0.4	116.6	-0.0
5	Christy Mathewson	1900 - 1916	SP	101.8	Pl		WW1	6.8	-0.2	95.3	0.1
6	Eddie Plank	1901 - 1917	SP	89.8	Pl			3.4	-0.1	86.5	-0.1
7	Ed Walsh	1904 - 1917	SP	65.5	Pl			2.3	-0.1	63.2	-0.1
8	Vic Willis	1898 - 1910	SP	63.5	Pl			-3.5	-0.2	67.1	-0.0
9	Clark Griffith	1891 - 1914	SP	61.9	Pl			4.6	-0.5	57.7	-0.0
10	Rube Waddell	1897 - 1910	SP	58.5	Pl			-2.4	-0.1	61.0	-0.0
11	Jack Quinn	1909 - 1933	SP	58.1				-1.0	0.1	59.1	-0.0
12	Eddie Cicotte	1905 - 1920	SP	58.0		BANg		1.2	-0.1	56.9	-0.0
13	Joe McGinnity	1899 - 1908	SP	57.7	Pl			-2.6	-0.0	60.4	0.1
14	Jack Powell	1897 - 1912	SP	56.8				0.9	-0.1	56.0	-0.0
15	Mordecai Brown	1903 - 1916	SP	56.3	Pl			1.2	0.1	55.1	0.1
16	Al Orth	1895 - 1909	SP	52.7				9.5	-1.0	44.1	-0.2
17	Babe Adams	1906 - 1926	SP	52.0				2.5	-0.1	49.5	-0.0
18	Chief Bender	1903 - 1925	SP	49.5	Pl			5.6	-0.1	44.0	-0.1
19	Jesse Tannehill	1894 - 1911	SP	48.7				7.7	-0.6	41.1	-0.5
20	Doc White	1901 - 1913	SP	48.5				6.4	-1.0	42.6	-0.5
21	Nap Rucker	1907 - 1916	SP	48.0				0.2	-0.0	47.9	0.1
22	George Mullin	1902 - 1915	SP	47.7				13.4	-0.1	34.3	-0.0
23	Hippo Vaughn	1908 - 1921	SP	46.3				-0.1	-0.1	46.5	-0.0
24	Noodles Hahn	1899 - 1906	SP	44.6				-1.3	-0.0	45.9	0.0
25	Addie Joss	1902 - 1910	SP	43.7	Pl			-2.1	-0.1	45.9	-0.0
26	Bill Donovan	1898 - 1918	SP	42.8				1.2	-0.6	41.9	-0.3
27	Jack Chesbro	1899 - 1909	SP	41.4	Pl			0.3	-0.1	41.2	-0.0
28	Sam Leever	1898 - 1910	SP	41.3				-0.4	0.0	41.8	0.1
29	Bill Dinneen	1898 - 1909	SP	40.6				-0.3	-0.2	41.1	-0.0
30	Kid Gleason	1888 - 1912	SP	40.5				12.1	-1.8	31.5	1.4
31	Joe Wood	1908 - 1922	SP	40.4				12.1	-3.5	29.7	-2.1
32	Ray Caldwell	1910 - 1921	SP	38.1			WW2	6.7	-0.4	31.5	-0.2
33	Jeff Pfeffer	1911 - 1924	SP	38.0			WW1	0.2	-0.2	38.1	-0.0
34	Ed Reulbach	1905 - 1917	SP	36.5				-2.4	-0.1	39.0	0.0
35	Jack Taylor	1898 - 1907	SP	34.4				4.2	0.0	30.2	0.1
36	Deacon Phillippe	1899 - 1911	SP	34.2				-0.2	-0.0	34.4	0.1
37	Harry Howell	1898 - 1910	SP	33.9				3.2	-1.0	31.8	0.1
38	Russ Ford	1909 - 1915	SP	32.6				1.3	0.0	31.3	-0.0
39	Slim Sallee	1908 - 1921	SP	32.5				-1.0	-0.1	33.6	0.1
40	Rube Marquard	1908 - 1925	SP	31.9	Pl		WWB	-2.2	-0.1	34.2	0.0
41	Claude Hendrix	1911 - 1920	SP	31.4				6.4	0.0	25.0	0.1
42	Bob Ewing	1902 - 1912	SP	31.2				0.7	-0.1	30.5	0.0
43	Jack Coombs	1906 - 1920	SP	28.9				4.2	-0.2	24.5	-0.4
44	George Mogridge	1911 - 1927	SP	28.9				-1.0	-0.0	29.9	-0.0
45	Hooks Wiltse	1904 - 1915	SP	28.7				2.5	-0.0	26.3	0.0
46	Lefty Tyler	1910 - 1921	SP	27.9				4.7	-0.1	23.3	-0.0
47	Jake Weimer	1903 - 1909	SP	27.0				1.0	0.0	26.0	0.1
48	Ed Killian	1903 - 1910	SP	26.8				1.5	0.1	25.1	-0.1
49	Sherry Smith	1911 - 1927	SP	26.3				2.6	-0.1	23.7	-0.0
50	Earl Moore	1901 - 1914	SP	26.1				-4.4	-0.0	30.5	0.0
51	Jim Scott	1909 - 1917	SP	26.1			WW1	-2.6	-0.1	28.7	-0.1
52	Nixey Callahan	1894 - 1913	SP	26.0				11.9	-4.1	15.8	-2.4
53	Fred Toney	1911 - 1923	SP	25.1				-2.5	-0.1	27.7	-0.0
54	Clarence Mitchell	1911 - 1932	SP	24.8				5.1	-1.0	20.3	-0.5
55	Dick Rudolph	1910 - 1927	SP	24.8				2.0	-0.1	22.8	0.0
56	Red Ames	1903 - 1919	SP	23.9				-4.1	-0.1	28.1	0.0
57	Ray Collins	1909 - 1915	SP	23.9				0.8	-0.1	23.1	-0.0
58	Frank Kitson	1898 - 1907	SP	23.6				3.9	-0.2	19.8	-0.1
59	Vean Gregg	1911 - 1925	SP	23.6				-1.2	-0.0	24.8	-0.0
60	Orval Overall	1905 - 1913	SP	23.3				0.7	0.0	22.6	0.0
61	Earl Hamilton	1911 - 1924	SP	23.0			WW1	-0.8	-0.1	23.8	-0.1
62	Red Donahue	1893 - 1906	SP	22.9				-7.0	-0.1	30.0	0.0
63	Frank Smith	1904 - 1915	SP	22.5				4.7	-0.0	17.7	-0.0
64	George Suggs	1908 - 1915	SP	22.2				1.8	0.1	20.4	0.1
65	Barney Pelty	1903 - 1912	SP	21.8				-2.1	-0.1	24.0	-0.0
66	Lefty Leifield	1905 - 1920	SP	21.5				0.1	-0.0	21.4	0.1
67	Ray Fisher	1910 - 1920	SP	21.3			WW1	-0.6	-0.1	21.9	-0.0
68	Doc Crandall	1908 - 1918	SP	21.0				9.0	-0.4	12.5	0.1
69	Cy Falkenberg	1903 - 1917	SP	20.8				-2.4	0.0	23.1	-0.0
70	Tully Sparks	1897 - 1910	SP	20.7				-4.6	0.0	25.3	0.1
71	George McQuillan	1907 - 1918	SP	19.2				-2.2	-0.0	21.5	0.0
72	Ed Siever	1901 - 1908	SP	18.8				-2.4	-0.0	21.2	-0.0
73	Larry Cheney	1911 - 1919	SP	18.4				0.8	-0.1	17.7	0.0
74	Joe Benz	1911 - 1919	SP	18.0				-2.7	-0.0	20.7	-0.0
75	Jack Warhop	1908 - 1915	SP	17.1				-0.8	-0.1	18.0	-0.1
76	Tom Hughes	1900 - 1913	SP	16.8				1.8	-0.1	15.0	-0.1
77	Harry Coveleski	1907 - 1918	SP	16.0				-0.3	-0.0	16.3	-0.0
78	Howie Camnitz	1904 - 1915	SP	15.1				-3.6	0.0	18.7	0.1
79	Rube Benton	1910 - 1925	SP	15.0			WW1	-2.0	-0.1	17.1	-0.0
80	Roy Patterson	1901 - 1907	SP	14.7				-1.7	-0.0	16.5	0.0
81	Bill Bernhard	1899 - 1907	SP	14.6				-1.4	-0.0	16.1	0.0
82	Willie Mitchell	1909 - 1919	SP	14.6			WW1	-2.9	-0.1	17.5	-0.0
83	Chick Fraser	1896 - 1909	SP	14.4				-2.5	-0.0	17.0	0.0
84	Lew Richie	1906 - 1913	SP	14.2				-1.2	-0.0	15.5	0.0
85	Togie Pittinger	1900 - 1907	SP	14.2				-5.9	0.0	20.0	0.0
86	Dummy Taylor	1900 - 1908	SP	13.9				-2.5	0.0	16.4	0.1
87	Willie Sudhoff	1897 - 1906	SP	13.6				-0.6	-0.3	14.4	-0.1
88	Bill Duggleby	1898 - 1907	SP	13.4				-1.3	0.0	14.7	0.1
89	Doc Scanlan	1903 - 1911	SP	13.0				0.9	0.0	12.2	0.0
90	Carl Lundgren	1902 - 1909	SP	12.8				-0.9	0.0	13.8	0.1
91	Bob Harmon	1909 - 1918	SP	12.7				0.6	-0.1	12.2	0.0
92	Ed Willett	1906 - 1915	SP	12.4				1.6	0.0	10.8	-0.0
93	Buster Brown	1905 - 1913	SP	12.2				0.2	-0.0	12.1	0.1
94	Fred Glade	1902 - 1908	SP	12.0				-0.6	-0.0	12.6	-0.0
95	Bob Groom	1909 - 1918	SP	12.0				-4.0	0.0	16.1	-0.0
96	Bob Rhoads	1902 - 1909	SP	11.7				0.1	-0.1	11.5	-0.1
97	George Winter	1901 - 1908	SP	11.6				-1.0	-0.0	12.6	-0.0
98	Art Fromme	1906 - 1915	SP	11.4				-1.1	-0.0	12.6	0.0
99	Ed Karger	1906 - 1911	SP	11.3				2.4	-0.0	8.9	0.0
100	Tom Hughes	1906 - 1918	SP	11.0				-0.6	-0.1	11.6	0.0

	Bill Donovan	1898 - 1918	SP	42.8				1.2	-0.6	41.9	-0.3

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com