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Bill Essick
	William Earl Essick
	(Vinegar Bill)

	Born: December 18, 1881 in Grand Ridge, IL
	Died: October 12, 1951 - 69 years old
	Bats:	Throws: R	Ht: 5'10"	Wt: 175

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Notes:
- Purchased by the Cincinnati Reds from Portland in 1906
- College/Univ: Knox College (and Lombard College) (1901-1903)

All-Teammate Team

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com

Left Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
John Kane	1	1907	1907	1.4
Fred Odwell	2	1906	1907	1.3

Center Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Cy Seymour	1	1906	1906	1.5
Dode Paskert	1	1907	1907	0.3

Right Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Mike Mitchell	1	1907	1907	3.4
Jimmy Barrett	1	1906	1906	-0.2

Shortstop	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Hans Lobert	2	1906	1907	3.9
Tommy Corcoran	1	1906	1906	-0.7

Second Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Miller Huggins	2	1906	1907	6.9

Third Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Jim Delahanty	1	1906	1906	2.3
Mike Mowrey	2	1906	1907	1.7

First Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
John Ganzel	1	1907	1907	2.3
Shad Barry	1	1906	1906	1.7

Manager	Yrs	First	Last	mPts
Ned Hanlon	2	1906	1907	0.4

Catcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Admiral Schlei	2	1906	1907	3.8
Larry McLean	2	1906	1907	2.4

Starting Pitcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Bob Ewing	2	1906	1907	11.4
Jake Weimer	2	1906	1907	9.7
Chick Fraser	1	1906	1906	2.9
Andy Coakley	1	1907	1907	2.2
Bob Spade	1	1907	1907	1.2

Swingman	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Charlie Chech	1	1906	1906	0.2
Gus Dorner	1	1906	1906	0.2

Relief Pitcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Eddie Tiemeyer	2	1906	1907	0.2

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The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".

Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James