Billy Hitchcock

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and Shortstop

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-1, 185lb (185cm, 83kg)

Born: July 31, 1916 in Inverness, AL us

Died: April 9, 2006 in Opelika, AL

Buried: Rosemere Cemetery, Opelika, AL

High School: Union Springs HS (Union Springs, AL)

School: Auburn University (Auburn, AL)

Debut: April 14, 1942 (Age 25-257d, 9,201st in major league history)
vs. CLE 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: August 27, 1953 (Age 37-027d)
vs. WSH 2 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1942 season

Full Name: William Clyde Hitchcock

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Relatives: Brother of Jim Hitchcock

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

-5.4

2249

547

.243

231

RBI

257

OBP

.310

SLG

.299

OPS

.609

OPS+

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

1946 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1946 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	17 (16)	May 5 (1)	DET	@	PHA	L,2-10	GF	18	4.0	0	2	0	2	0
				Player went from Detroit Tigers to Washington Nationals
2	38	May 30 (2)	WSH	@	BOS	L,2-7	CG	0	8.0	0	0	1	1	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
3	40 (1)	Jun 2	WSH		DET	L,2-10	CG	42	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
4	41	Jun 3	WSH		DET	W,7-4	CG	38	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
5	42	Jun 4	WSH		CLE	L,2-10	CG	46	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
6	44 (1)	Jun 6	WSH		CLE	W,4-0	CG	32	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
7	45	Jun 7	WSH		CHW	W,3-2	CG	32	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
8	46	Jun 8 (1)	WSH		CHW	W,7-6	CG	0	9.0	0	1	2	3	1
9	47	Jun 8 (2)	WSH		CHW	W,7-6	CG	42	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
10	48	Jun 9 (1)	WSH		CHW	W,7-1	CG	0	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
11	49	Jun 9 (2)	WSH		CHW	L,1-8	CG	0	9.0	1	3	1	5	0
12	50	Jun 10	WSH		SLB	L,1-2	CG	34	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
13	51	Jun 11	WSH		SLB	L,2-6	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
14	52	Jun 12	WSH		SLB	L,0-1	CG	39	10.0	1	1	0	2	0
15	53	Jun 14	WSH	@	DET	L,2-6	CG	39	8.0	0	3	0	3	0
16	54	Jun 15	WSH	@	DET	L,1-3	CG	30	8.0	1	3	0	4	0
17	55	Jun 16	WSH	@	DET	W,6-3	CG	27	7.0	1	1	0	2	0
18	56	Jun 20	WSH	@	CLE	L,3-4	CG	40	8.1	2	1	0	3	1
19	58 (1)	Jun 22	WSH	@	SLB	L,8-14	GF	0		0	1	0	1	0
20	59	Jun 23 (1)	WSH	@	SLB	W,7-4	CG	0	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
21	60	Jun 23 (2)	WSH	@	SLB	L,4-7	CG	0	8.0	2	4	0	6	1
22	61	Jun 24	WSH	@	CHW	L,7-12	CG	43	8.0	3	3	0	6	0
23	62	Jun 25	WSH	@	CHW	L,4-6	CG	0	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
24	63	Jun 26	WSH	@	CHW	W,4-3	GS	38	10.0	1	5	0	6	0
25	64	Jun 28	WSH	@	BOS	L,1-12	CG	44	8.0	0	3	0	3	0
26	65	Jun 29	WSH	@	BOS	L,8-12	GS	45	8.0	0	2	0	2	1
27	66	Jun 30 (1)	WSH	@	BOS	L,8-15	CG	0	8.0	0	0	1	1	0
28	67	Jun 30 (2)	WSH	@	BOS	W,9-2	CG	0	9.0	0	6	0	6	1
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
29	68	Jul 3	WSH	@	PHA	W,3-1	CG	0	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
30	69	Jul 4 (1)	WSH		NYY	W,2-0	CG	32	9.0	0	2	1	3	0
31	70	Jul 4 (2)	WSH		NYY	L,0-5	CG	38	9.0	0	1	1	2	0
32	71	Jul 5	WSH		NYY	W,6-1	CG	38	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
33	72	Jul 6	WSH		BOS	W,4-0	CG	36	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
34	73	Jul 7 (1)	WSH		BOS	L,1-11	CG	0	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
35	74	Jul 7 (2)	WSH		BOS	L,4-9	CG	44	9.0	0	1	1	2	0
36	75	Jul 11	WSH		CHW	L,2-4	CG	44	11.0	1	0	0	1	0
37	76	Jul 13 (1)	WSH		CHW	W,6-5	CG	39	9.0	0	0	1	1	0
38	77	Jul 13 (2)	WSH		CHW	L,2-9	CG	46	9.0	2	0	0	2	1
39	78	Jul 14 (1)	WSH		SLB	W,5-3	GS	36	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
40	84 (5)	Jul 19	WSH		DET	L,5-10	CG	46	9.0	0	3	0	3	1
41	86 (1)	Jul 21 (1)	WSH		CLE	W,2-1	CG	35	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
42	87	Jul 21 (2)	WSH		CLE	W,7-5	CG	0	9.0	2	2	1	5	0
43	88	Jul 23	WSH	@	DET	L,1-6	CG	39	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
44	95 (6)	Jul 29 (1)	WSH	@	CLE	W,2-1	CG	40	10.0	0	2	0	2	0
45	96	Jul 29 (2)	WSH	@	CLE	W,8-4	CG	38	9.0	4	0	1	5	0
46	97	Jul 30	WSH	@	SLB	L,3-6	GS	43	10.0	1	1	0	2	0
47	98	Jul 31	WSH	@	SLB	L,2-6	CG	37	8.0	4	2	1	7	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
48	99	Aug 1	WSH	@	SLB	L,2-8	CG	37	8.0	1	5	0	6	2
49	100	Aug 2	WSH	@	CHW	W,6-0	CG	32	9.0	1	5	0	6	2
50	101	Aug 3	WSH	@	CHW	L,0-1	CG	30	8.0	3	5	0	8	2
51	102	Aug 4 (1)	WSH	@	CHW	L,1-3	CG	30	8.0	3	2	0	5	1
52	103	Aug 4 (2)	WSH	@	CHW	L,0-1	CG	31	8.0	4	2	0	6	0
53	104	Aug 7	WSH		NYY	W,4-3	CG	46	12.0	3	4	1	8	1
54	105	Aug 8 (1)	WSH		NYY	L,3-9	CG	45	9.0	3	1	1	5	0
55	106	Aug 8 (2)	WSH		NYY	L,1-13	CG	50	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
56	107	Aug 9	WSH		PHA	W,2-1	CG	36	9.0	4	3	0	7	1
57	108	Aug 10 (1)	WSH		PHA	W,4-1	CG	36	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
58	109	Aug 10 (2)	WSH		PHA	L,3-8	CG	45	9.0	5	6	0	11	2
59	110	Aug 11 (1)	WSH		PHA	W,3-1	CG	35	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
60	111	Aug 11 (2)	WSH		PHA	L,5-12	CG	46	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
61	112	Aug 14	WSH	@	NYY	L,1-4	CG	32	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
62	113	Aug 15 (1)	WSH	@	NYY	L,1-6	CG	40	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
63	114	Aug 15 (2)	WSH	@	NYY	L,2-7	CG	39	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
64	115	Aug 17 (1)	WSH	@	PHA	W,12-7	CG	48	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
65	116	Aug 17 (2)	WSH	@	PHA	L,3-5	CG	41	8.0	2	7	0	9	1
66	117	Aug 18 (1)	WSH	@	PHA	L,0-11	CG	43	8.0	3	4	0	7	0
67	118	Aug 18 (2)	WSH	@	PHA	W,6-4	CG	40	9.0	4	5	1	10	0
68	119	Aug 20	WSH		CLE	W,5-4	CG	37	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
69	120	Aug 21	WSH		CLE	W,4-3	CG	37	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
70	121	Aug 23 (1)	WSH		DET	W,3-2	CG	38	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
71	122	Aug 23 (2)	WSH		DET	L,0-5	CG	40	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
72	123	Aug 24	WSH		DET	L,4-8	CG	46	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
73	124	Aug 25	WSH		SLB	W,5-4	GS	36	9.0	1	4	0	5	0
74	125	Aug 26	WSH		SLB	W,5-2	CG	40	9.0	1	1	1	3	0
75	126	Aug 27	WSH		SLB	L,2-4	CG	42	9.0	4	3	1	8	0
76	127	Aug 28	WSH		CHW	L,1-2	CG	50	12.0	4	4	0	8	1
77	128	Aug 31	WSH		NYY	L,0-4	GS	34	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
78	129	Sep 1	WSH		NYY	L,2-7	GS	40	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
79	135 (5)	Sep 7	WSH	@	NYY	L,4-7	GS	33	7.0	3	2	0	5	0
80	136	Sep 8 (1)	WSH	@	NYY	W,2-1	CG	42	11.0	5	3	0	8	1
81	137	Sep 8 (2)	WSH	@	NYY	W,9-8	CG	41	8.0	1	4	0	5	0
82	138	Sep 10	WSH	@	CHW	W,4-2	CG	35	9.0	1	2	1	4	1
83	139	Sep 11	WSH	@	CHW	L,1-6	CG	34	8.0	6	0	0	6	1
84	140	Sep 12	WSH	@	SLB	W,9-6	CG	43	9.0	1	1	1	3	0
85	141	Sep 13	WSH	@	SLB	L,0-7	CG	0	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
86	142	Sep 14	WSH	@	SLB	W,3-1	CG	33	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
87	143	Sep 15	WSH	@	DET	W,15-5	CG	41	9.0	0	3	0	3	1
88	144	Sep 16	WSH	@	DET	L,7-11	CG	0	8.0	3	3	0	6	1
89	145	Sep 17	WSH	@	DET	L,4-6	CG	37	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
90	146	Sep 18	WSH	@	CLE	W,8-1	CG	0	9.0	3	4	0	7	1
91	147	Sep 19	WSH	@	CLE	L,1-5	CG	0	8.0	1	2	1	4	0
92	148	Sep 21	WSH		BOS	L,5-7	CG	51	11.0	2	2	0	4	0
93	149	Sep 22	WSH		BOS	L,1-4	CG	0	9.0	2	4	0	6	0
94	150	Sep 25 (1)	WSH	@	PHA	W,6-3	CG	36	9.0	3	2	0	5	2
95	151	Sep 25 (2)	WSH	@	PHA	W,7-4	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
96	152	Sep 26	WSH	@	PHA	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
97	153	Sep 27	WSH	@	BOS	L,4-5	CG	0	8.0	4	1	1	6	1
98	154	Sep 28	WSH	@	BOS	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
99	155	Sep 29	WSH	@	BOS	W,7-0	CG	0	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
							100gm		854.0	166	231	21	418	34