Bill Drake

William P. Drake
(Plunk)

Born: June 8, 1895 in Sedalia, MO
Died: October 30, 1977 in St. Louis, MO
(82 years old)

Bats: R

Throws: R

Ht: 6'0"

Wt: 205

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Notes:

• Buried: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery (Lemay, MO)

Teammates

Glossary

#	Players	Pos	Yrs	First	Last	Team	WAR	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Bullet Rogan	SP	4	1922	1925	KCM	29.0	10.9	0.1	18.2	-0.3
2	Dobie Moore	SS	4	1922	1925	KCM	24.6	13.8	8.5	0.0	2.2
3	Hurley McNair	LF	5	1917	1925	ALL/KCM	15.0	13.4	2.7	0.3	-1.4
4	Heavy Johnson	RF	4	1920	1924	KCM/SLS	11.9	14.4	-1.6	0.0	-0.9
5	Charlie Blackwell	RF	5	1916	1922	SLS	11.0	11.1	0.8	0.0	-0.9
6	Willie Wells	SS	1	1930	1930	SLS	8.5	5.3	2.7	0.0	0.5
7	Ed Rile	SP	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	7.7	4.7	-1.3	4.8	-0.4
8	Newt Joseph	3B	4	1922	1925	KCM	7.2	6.4	-0.1	0.0	0.9
9	Turkey Stearnes	CF	1	1927	1927	DS	6.3	5.0	1.5	0.0	-0.2
10	Oscar Charleston	CF	2	1920	1921	SLS	5.8	6.8	-0.4	-0.4	-0.2
11	Cool Papa Bell	CF	2	1922	1930	SLS	5.2	3.2	0.3	1.9	-0.1
12	Rube Curry	SP	2	1922	1923	KCM	5.2	-0.1	0.0	5.3	0.0
13	Newt Allen	2B	4	1922	1925	KCM	5.1	3.5	0.9	0.0	0.7
14	Nelson Dean	SP	1	1925	1925	KCM	4.8	-0.3	0.0	5.1	0.0
15	William Bell	SP	3	1923	1925	KCM	4.7	-0.8	0.0	5.5	0.0
16	Frank Duncan	C	4	1922	1925	KCM	4.6	0.9	2.8	0.0	0.9
17	Ted Radcliffe	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	4.3	0.2	0.2	3.8	0.1
18	Eggie Hensley	SP	2	1922	1930	SLS	4.2	0.3	0.0	3.9	0.0
19	Dan Kennard	C	5	1916	1922	SLS	3.9	4.2	-0.9	0.0	0.5
20	José Méndez	SP	5	1917	1925	ALL/KCM	3.6	0.6	-0.1	2.8	0.2
21	Halley Harding	SS	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	3.3	2.4	0.2	0.0	0.8
22	Mule Suttles	LF	1	1930	1930	SLS	3.2	3.3	0.0	0.0	-0.1
23	Doc Dudley	LF	3	1920	1922	SLS	3.2	4.1	-0.3	0.0	-0.6
24	Deacon Meyers	SP	2	1921	1922	SLS	3.1	0.0	0.0	3.1	0.0
25	John Finner	SP	4	1919	1922	SLS	3.0	0.1	-0.1	3.1	0.0
26	Jim Willis	SP	1	1930	1930	BEG	3.0	-0.2	-0.1	3.2	0.0
27	Branch Russell	RF	2	1922	1930	KCM/SLS	2.8	2.6	0.4	0.0	-0.2
28	Yellow Horse Morris	SP	2	1924	1927	DS/KCM	2.7	0.0	0.1	2.7	0.0
29	Bill McCall	SP	2	1924	1926	ABC/KCM	2.7	-0.3	0.0	2.9	0.0
30	George Giles	1B	1	1930	1930	SLS	2.6	2.5	0.4	0.0	-0.3
31	Cliff Bell	SP	4	1922	1925	KCM	2.6	0.1	0.0	2.4	0.0
32	Bingo DeMoss	2B	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	2.5	-0.9	3.1	0.0	0.3
33	Dink Mothell	CF	2	1924	1925	KCM	2.4	2.8	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
34	Sam Bennett	RF	5	1916	1922	SLS	2.3	2.8	-0.4	0.0	0.0
35	Jimmie Lyons	LF	4	1916	1920	ALL/SLS	2.2	1.2	0.8	0.4	-0.2
36	Ruben Jones	RF	1	1926	1926	ABC	2.2	0.9	1.5	0.0	-0.3
37	Willie Gisentaner	SP	2	1922	1923	KCM	2.1	1.0	-0.1	1.2	0.0
38	John Donaldson	CF	4	1917	1924	ALL/KCM	2.1	1.2	-0.6	1.6	-0.1
39	Cristóbal Torriente	RF	2	1917	1927	ALL/DS	2.0	2.6	-0.3	0.1	-0.4
40	Stack Martin	1B	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	2.0	2.5	0.0	-0.2	-0.3
41	Frank Stevens	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	1.7	0.9	0.0	0.8	0.0
42	Buck Miller	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	1.6	-0.2	0.0	1.7	0.0
43	Roosevelt Davis	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.6	-0.1	0.0	1.7	0.0
44	George Mitchell	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	1.6	0.5	0.0	1.1	0.0
45	Claude Johnson	2B	1	1927	1927	DS	1.4	1.3	-0.1	0.0	0.3
46	Joe Strong	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.4	0.3	0.0	1.2	0.0
47	Harry Jeffries	3B	1	1927	1927	DS	1.4	-0.3	1.5	0.0	0.2
48	Ted Trent	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.4	-0.4	0.0	1.8	0.0
49	Lunie Danage	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	1.2	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.1
50	Frank Warfield	SS	1	1916	1916	SLS	1.1	1.3	-0.3	0.0	0.1
51	Leroy Matlock	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.1	0.0	0.0	1.1	0.0
52	Ted Kimbro	3B	1	1916	1916	SLS	1.0	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.1
53	Lemuel Hawkins	1B	4	1922	1925	KCM	0.9	2.3	-0.3	0.2	-1.3
54	George Sweatt	LF	4	1922	1925	KCM	0.9	1.5	-0.5	0.0	-0.1
55	Joe Hewitt	SS	5	1916	1930	BEG/SLS	0.9	2.1	-1.9	0.0	0.7
56	Lee Hill	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.0
57	Comer Cox	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.0	-0.1
58	Johnny Jones	LF	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	0.8	1.3	-0.2	0.0	-0.3
59	John Henry Russell	2B	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.8	0.8	-0.2	0.0	0.2
60	Bill Gatewood	SP	4	1916	1922	SLS	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.5	0.0
61	Earl Gurley	RP	1	1922	1922	SLS	0.6	0.2	0.0	0.4	0.0
62	Eugene Moore	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.6	0.5	0.2	0.0	-0.1
63	Poindexter Williams	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.0
64	Bob Scott	LF	2	1919	1920	SLS	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.0	-0.1
65	Bunny Downs	2B	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.5	0.1	0.4	0.0	0.0
66	Mike Flanagan	SP	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.5	-0.1	0.0	0.5	0.0
67	Frank Blattner	2B	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.4	0.5	-0.1	0.0	0.0
68	Hop Bartlett	SP	2	1924	1925	KCM	0.4	-0.1	0.0	0.5	0.0
69	Herbert Smith	SP	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0
70	Steel Arm Dickey	SP	1	1922	1922	SLS	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
71	Sam Crawford	SP	2	1922	1923	KCM	0.3	-0.1	0.1	0.3	0.0
72	Fred Daniels	SP	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
73	Ernest Duff	RF	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.3	0.5	-0.2	0.0	-0.1
74	Joe Casey	SP	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
75	Harry Kenyon	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	0.2	0.4	0.0	-0.1	-0.1
76	Wilson Redus	LF	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.2	0.8	-0.5	0.0	-0.1
77	Bill Evans	CF	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.2	0.0	0.3	0.0	-0.1
78	Wade Johnston	CF	2	1923	1925	KCM	0.2	3.9	-3.3	0.0	-0.5
79	John Williams	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.2	0.4	-0.4	0.3	-0.1
80	Lorenza Cobb	C	3	1916	1920	SLS	0.2	0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.1
81	Bartolo Portuondo	2B	1	1922	1922	KCM	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
82	Salvador Poree	RP	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
83	Nolan	C	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
84	Fred Bell	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0
85	Biz Mackey	C	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
86	Lonnie Torian	SP	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
87	Willie Green	3B	1	1924	1924	KCM	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
88	Carl Rolling	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
89	Dave Thomas	2B	1	1922	1922	KCM	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
90	Andy Cooper	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.3	0.0
91	Harding	RP	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0
92	Bobby Williams	SS	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
93	Red Charleston	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.1	-0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0
94	Hub Miller	RP	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
95	Lefty Williams	RF	1	1924	1924	KCM	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
96	West	RP	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
97	Bill Handy	2B	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.0	0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.0
98	Dave Campbell	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
99	Perry Hall	RP	2	1921	1922	SLS	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.0
100	Kid Lowe	3B	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
101	John Barnes	C	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
102	Al Morris	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.0
103	Andrew Reed	3B	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
104	Edgar Wesley	1B	1	1927	1927	DS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
105	Charley Hill	LF	1	1924	1924	KCM	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
106	Archie Cole	RP	1	1923	1923	KCM	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
107	Buddy Hayes	-	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
108	Thompson	1B	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
109	Mose Herring	3B	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
110	Charlie Hancock	C	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
111	George Carr	CF	1	1922	1922	KCM	0.0	0.7	-0.6	0.0	-0.1
112	Rigsby	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
113	Noble Wilson	RF	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
114	W. Williams	RP	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
115	P. Burgett	C	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
116	Quincy Trouppe	C	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
117	Bill Riggins	-	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
118	Dell Clark	2B	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
119	Ray Johnson	-	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
120	Leonard Henderson	3B	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
121	Kid Cary	3B	2	1916	1919	SLS	0.0	-0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0
122	Albert Owens	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0
123	William Linder	RP	1	1922	1922	KCM	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
124	John Reese	RF	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0
125	Stewart	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
126	Taft Newman	CF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.1	0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
127	Shaw	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
128	Anderson Pryor	3B	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0
129	Sam Mongin	3B	1	1921	1921	SLS	-0.1	0.4	-0.6	0.0	0.2
130	Wilmer Euell	C	1	1926	1926	ABC	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
131	Clarence Coleman	C	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.1
132	Edward Chapman	-	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
133	Willie Bobo	1B	2	1923	1930	BEG/KCM	-0.1	0.4	-0.3	0.0	-0.2
134	Charles Wesley	3B	1	1922	1922	SLS	-0.1	-0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
135	Will Jones	3B	1	1919	1919	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
136	Murphy	-	1	1922	1922	KCM	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
137	Oscar Hutt	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
138	Eddie Pace	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
139	Watkins	3B	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0
140	C. Anderson	-	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
141	Walter Bribeck	1B	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.1	-0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0
142	Jimmy Oldham	SP	3	1920	1922	SLS	-0.1	-0.3	0.0	0.2	0.0
143	George Dixon	C	1	1926	1926	ABC	-0.1	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.1
144	Percy Miller	LF	2	1922	1930	MULT	-0.1	0.2	0.0	-0.3	-0.1
145	William Ross	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.2	0.4	0.0	-0.5	0.0
146	Foots Stevens	C	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
147	Connie Day	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
148	Jack Marshall	RP	1	1924	1924	KCM	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0
149	James White	2B	1	1922	1922	SLS	-0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
150	Clarence Everett	SS	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.2	-0.7	0.4	0.0	0.1
151	Jess Turner	3B	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
152	Bill Anderson	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.2	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0
153	William Webster	C	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.2	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0
154	Louis English	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.2	0.0	-0.3	0.0	0.0
155	Lucius Hampton	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.2	0.3	0.0	-0.5	0.0
156	String Bean Williams	RP	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.2	0.1	0.0	-0.3	0.0
157	Otis Starks	RP	1	1921	1921	SLS	-0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
158	George Scales	3B	2	1921	1922	SLS	-0.3	-0.4	0.0	0.0	0.1
159	Wayne Carr	SP	2	1920	1921	SLS	-0.3	-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0
160	Melton	-	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
161	Dewey Creacy	3B	1	1930	1930	SLS	-0.3	1.1	-1.6	0.0	0.2
162	C. M. Olson	3B	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.3	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.0
163	James Buford	2B	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.3	0.5	-0.9	0.0	0.1
164	Chet Brewer	SP	1	1925	1925	KCM	-0.3	0.2	0.0	-0.5	0.0
165	Felton Stratton	SS	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.3	-0.4	-0.2	0.0	0.2
166	Robert Prior	-	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.4	0.1	0.0	-0.4	0.0
167	Nish Williams	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.4	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
168	Edgar Burch	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.4	0.0
169	Geechie Meredith	2B	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.4	-0.3	-0.2	0.0	0.0
170	Raymond Austin	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.4	0.0
171	Henry Williams	C	2	1923	1930	KCM/SLS	-0.4	-0.3	-0.2	0.0	0.1
172	Otto Ray	C	1	1922	1922	SLS	-0.5	0.2	-0.8	0.0	0.1
173	Jesse Edwards	LF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.5	-0.4	-0.1	0.0	0.0
174	Miller	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.5	0.0
175	Bubbles Anderson	2B	2	1922	1923	KCM	-0.5	0.2	-0.9	0.0	0.2
176	Joe Wiggins	3B	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.5	0.1	-0.7	0.0	0.1
177	Juan Padrón	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	-0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.5	0.0
178	Jack Ridley	CF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.5	-0.2	-0.2	0.0	-0.1
179	Robert Yendes	RF	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.5	-0.1	-0.1	-0.4	0.0
180	Pepper Daniels	C	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.6	0.2	-1.0	0.0	0.2
181	James Field	RP	1	1921	1921	SLS	-0.6	-0.1	0.0	-0.5	0.0
182	Sylvester Foreman	C	2	1925	1926	ABC/KCM	-0.6	-0.4	-0.6	0.0	0.3
183	Clarence White	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.7	-0.1	0.0	-0.5	0.0
184	Saulter	-	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.7	0.0
185	Luther Farrell	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.7	0.2	0.0	-1.0	0.0
186	Albert Davis	LF	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.8	0.1	0.0	-0.9	0.0
187	Bailey McCauley	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.8	-0.1	0.0	-0.7	0.0
188	Gus Steno	LF	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.8	-0.3	-0.5	0.0	-0.1
189	Dick Wallace	3B	4	1916	1921	SLS	-0.9	-0.9	-0.4	0.0	0.4
190	Henry Wright	RP	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.9	0.0	-0.1	-0.9	0.0
191	Willie Woods	CF	1	1922	1922	SLS	-1.0	-0.7	-0.3	0.0	0.0
192	Tullie McAdoo	1B	5	1916	1922	SLS	-1.1	0.6	-0.8	0.0	-0.9
193	LeRoy Taylor	CF	1	1926	1926	ABC	-1.3	-0.3	-0.8	0.0	-0.2
194	Lee Wade	RP	1	1916	1916	SLS	-1.6	-0.1	0.0	-1.5	0.0
195	Bobby Robinson	3B	1	1926	1926	ABC	-1.6	-1.1	-0.8	0.0	0.2
196	Sidney Brooks	LF	4	1919	1922	SLS	-1.9	0.0	-2.0	0.2	-0.2
197	Eddie Holtz	SS	4	1919	1922	SLS	-2.8	-2.9	-0.7	0.0	0.7

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