Bill Drake - Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

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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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	29.8	11.1	0.2	18.7	-0.3
2	Dobie Moore	SS	4	1922	1925	KCM	22.0	13.5	6.3	0.0	2.2
3	Hurley McNair	LF	5	1917	1925	KCM/ALL	14.9	13.2	2.8	0.3	-1.4
4	Heavy Johnson	RF	4	1920	1924	KCM/SLS	12.1	14.5	-1.5	0.0	-0.9
5	Charlie Blackwell	RF	5	1916	1922	SLS	10.7	10.9	0.6	0.0	-0.9
6	Ed Rile	SP	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	7.8	4.6	-0.7	4.4	-0.4
7	Newt Joseph	3B	4	1922	1925	KCM	7.5	6.2	0.5	0.0	0.9
8	Willie Wells	SS	1	1930	1930	SLS	5.7	5.2	0.0	0.0	0.5
9	Oscar Charleston	CF	2	1920	1921	SLS	5.6	6.5	-0.4	-0.4	-0.2
10	Rube Curry	SP	2	1922	1923	KCM	5.0	-0.3	0.1	5.2	0.0
11	Nelson Dean	SP	1	1925	1925	KCM	4.9	-0.3	0.0	5.2	0.0
12	Turkey Stearnes	CF	1	1927	1927	DS	4.8	5.0	0.0	0.0	-0.2
13	Frank Duncan	C	4	1922	1925	KCM	4.4	0.9	2.6	0.0	0.9
14	Cool Papa Bell	SP	2	1922	1930	SLS	4.4	2.6	0.0	1.9	-0.1
15	William Bell	SP	3	1923	1925	KCM	4.3	-0.8	0.0	5.2	0.0
16	Ted Radcliffe	C	1	1930	1930	SLS	4.2	0.1	0.0	3.9	0.1
17	Logan Hensley	SP	2	1922	1930	SLS	4.1	0.2	0.0	3.9	0.0
18	Dan Kennard	C	5	1916	1922	SLS	3.7	4.1	-0.9	0.0	0.5
19	Newt Allen	2B	4	1922	1925	KCM	3.4	3.5	-0.8	0.0	0.6
20	Mule Suttles	LF	1	1930	1930	SLS	3.1	3.2	0.0	0.0	-0.1
21	Deacon Meyers	SP	2	1921	1922	SLS	3.1	0.0	0.0	3.1	0.0
22	Branch Russell	RF	2	1922	1930	KCM/SLS	3.0	2.1	1.1	0.0	-0.2
23	Yellow Horse Morris	SP	2	1924	1927	KCM/DS	2.9	-0.2	0.1	3.1	0.0
24	John Finner	SP	4	1919	1922	SLS	2.9	0.1	-0.1	3.0	0.0
25	Bill McCall	SP	2	1924	1926	ABC/KCM	2.7	-0.3	0.0	3.0	0.0
26	Doc Dudley	LF	3	1920	1922	SLS	2.7	3.7	-0.4	0.0	-0.6
27	Dink Mothell	CF	2	1924	1925	KCM	2.7	3.0	0.0	0.0	-0.2
28	José Méndez	SP	5	1917	1925	KCM/ALL	2.6	0.5	-0.4	2.3	0.2
29	Cliff Bell	SP	4	1922	1925	KCM	2.6	0.2	0.0	2.5	0.0
30	Halley Harding	SS	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	2.6	2.4	-0.5	0.0	0.8
31	Bingo DeMoss	2B	2	1926	1927	DS/ABC	2.4	-0.8	2.9	0.0	0.3
32	Cristóbal Torriente	RF	2	1917	1927	DS/ALL	2.4	2.4	0.2	0.2	-0.4
33	Ruben Jones	RF	1	1926	1926	ABC	2.3	1.0	1.5	0.0	-0.3
34	Sam Bennett	RF	5	1916	1922	SLS	2.2	2.7	-0.4	0.0	0.0
35	Jimmie Lyons	LF	4	1916	1920	SLS/ALL	2.2	1.2	0.8	0.4	-0.2
36	Willie Gisentaner	SP	2	1922	1923	KCM	2.2	1.0	-0.1	1.2	0.0
37	John Donaldson	CF	4	1917	1924	KCM/ALL	2.1	1.2	-0.6	1.6	-0.1
38	George Giles	1B	1	1930	1930	SLS	2.0	2.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3
39	Stack Martin	1B	2	1926	1927	DS/ABC	1.8	2.6	-0.2	-0.2	-0.3
40	Frank Stevens	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	1.8	0.9	0.0	0.9	0.0
41	Buck Miller	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	1.6	-0.2	0.0	1.8	0.0
42	Ted Trent	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.6	-0.4	0.0	2.0	0.0
43	George Mitchell	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	1.6	0.5	0.0	1.1	0.0
44	Leroy Matlock	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.4	0.0	0.0	1.4	0.0
45	Johnny Jones	LF	2	1926	1927	ABC/DS	1.4	1.4	0.3	0.0	-0.3
46	Jim Willis	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	1.4	-0.3	0.0	1.7	0.0
47	Wade Johnston	CF	2	1923	1925	KCM	1.2	3.3	-1.6	0.0	-0.4
48	Claude Johnson	2B	1	1927	1927	DS	1.2	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.3
49	Lunie Danage	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	1.2	0.0	0.4	0.6	0.1
50	Joe Strong	RP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.2	0.2	0.0	1.0	0.0
51	Lemuel Hawkins	1B	4	1922	1925	KCM	1.1	2.2	0.1	0.2	-1.3
52	Roosevelt Davis	SP	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.1	-0.1	0.0	1.2	0.0
53	Harry Kenyon	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	1.0	0.4	0.0	0.7	-0.1
54	Dewey Creacy	3B	1	1930	1930	SLS	1.0	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.1
55	Frank Warfield	SS	1	1916	1916	SLS	1.0	1.2	-0.3	0.0	0.1
56	Ted Kimbro	3B	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.1
57	George Sweatt	LF	4	1922	1925	KCM	0.9	1.7	-0.7	0.0	-0.2
58	John Williams	LF	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.9	0.5	0.0	0.5	-0.1
59	Joe Hewitt	SS	5	1916	1930	SLS/BEG	0.9	2.0	-1.7	0.0	0.7
60	Lee Hill	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.8	0.6	0.2	0.0	0.0
61	Sam Crawford	SP	2	1922	1923	KCM	0.7	-0.1	0.1	0.7	0.0
62	James Buford	2B	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.7	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.1
63	John Henry Russell	2B	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.6	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.2
64	Bill Gatewood	SP	4	1916	1922	SLS	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.5	0.0
65	Earl Gurley	RP	1	1922	1922	SLS	0.6	0.2	0.0	0.4	0.0
66	Eugene Moore	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.6	0.5	0.2	0.0	-0.1
67	Bob Scott	LF	2	1919	1920	SLS	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.0	-0.1
68	Wilson Redus	LF	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.5	0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.2
69	Pepper Daniels	C	1	1927	1927	DS	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.3
70	Mike Flanagan	SP	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.5	-0.1	0.0	0.6	0.0
71	Bunny Downs	2B	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.5	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
72	Frank Blattner	2B	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.4	0.5	-0.1	0.0	0.0
73	Poindexter Williams	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
74	Hop Bartlett	SP	2	1924	1925	KCM	0.4	-0.1	0.0	0.5	0.0
75	Willie Bobo	1B	2	1923	1930	BEG/KCM	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.0	-0.2
76	Steel Arm Dickey	SP	1	1922	1922	SLS	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
77	Herbert Smith	SP	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0
78	Bill Evans	CF	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.3	0.0	0.4	0.0	-0.1
79	Ernest Duff	RF	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.3	0.6	-0.2	0.0	-0.1
80	Joe Casey	SP	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
81	Fred Daniels	SP	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
82	Lorenza Cobb	C	3	1916	1920	SLS	0.2	0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.1
83	Bartolo Portuondo	2B	1	1922	1922	KCM	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
84	Al Morris	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
85	Andy Cooper	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.4	0.0
86	Fred Bell	RP	1	1927	1927	DS	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0
87	Nolan	C	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
88	Salvador Poree	RP	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
89	Biz Mackey	C	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
90	Willie Green	3B	1	1924	1924	KCM	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
91	Carl Rolling	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
92	Ewell Thomas	2B	1	1922	1922	KCM	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
93	Harding	RP	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0
94	Bobby Williams	SS	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
95	Joe Wiggins	SS	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
96	Louis English	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
97	Hub Miller	RP	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
98	Lefty Williams	RF	1	1924	1924	KCM	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
99	Bill Anderson	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1
100	Taft Newman	CF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
101	Bill Handy	2B	1	1916	1916	SLS	0.0	0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.0
102	John Barnes	C	1	1926	1926	ABC	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
103	Perry Hall	RP	2	1921	1922	SLS	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.0
104	Andrew Reed	-	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.1	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	Lonnie Torian	-	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
110	Comer Cox	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1
111	Felton Stratton	SS	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.2
112	Charlie Hancock	C	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
113	Rigsby	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
114	Harry Jeffries	3B	1	1927	1927	DS	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.2
115	Noble Wilson	RF	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
116	Joe Campbell	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
117	P. Burgett	C	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
118	John Reese	LF	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
119	Quincy Trouppe	C	1	1930	1930	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
120	W. Williams	RP	1	1919	1919	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
121	Kid Lowe	3B	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
122	Dell Clark	2B	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
123	Bill Riggins	-	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
124	Mose Herring	3B	1	1920	1920	SLS	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
125	N. Stevens	C	1	1927	1927	DS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
126	Leonard Henderson	3B	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
127	West	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
128	Ray Johnson	-	1	1921	1921	SLS	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
129	Kid Cary	3B	2	1916	1919	SLS	0.0	-0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0
130	William Ross	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	0.0	0.3	0.0	-0.4	0.0
131	Red Charleston	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
132	William Linder	RP	1	1922	1922	KCM	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
133	Shaw	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
134	Charles Wesley	3B	1	1922	1922	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
135	Wilmer Euell	-	1	1926	1926	ABC	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
136	Stewart	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
137	Sam Mongin	3B	1	1921	1921	SLS	-0.1	0.4	-0.6	0.0	0.2
138	Edward Chapman	-	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
139	Clarence Coleman	C	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.1
140	Will Jones	-	1	1919	1919	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
141	Oscar Hutt	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
142	Murphy	-	1	1922	1922	KCM	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
143	Watkins	3B	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0
144	C. Anderson	-	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
145	Walter Bribeck	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.1	-0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0
146	George Carr	CF	1	1922	1922	KCM	-0.2	0.6	-0.6	0.0	-0.1
147	Albert Owens	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.2	0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0
148	Edgar Wesley	1B	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
149	Graham Pace	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
150	Connie Day	2B	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
151	James White	2B	1	1922	1922	SLS	-0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
152	George Dixon	C	1	1926	1926	ABC	-0.2	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.1
153	Percy Miller	SP	2	1922	1930	MULT	-0.2	0.1	0.2	-0.4	0.0
154	Jack Marshall	RP	1	1924	1924	KCM	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0
155	Jess Turner	1B	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
156	William Webster	C	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.2	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0
157	Lewis Hampton	SP	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.2	0.3	0.0	-0.5	0.0
158	String Bean Williams	RP	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.2	0.1	0.0	-0.3	0.0
159	Wayne Carr	SP	2	1920	1921	SLS	-0.3	-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0
160	George Scales	3B	2	1921	1922	SLS	-0.3	-0.4	0.0	0.0	0.1
161	Otis Starks	RP	1	1921	1921	SLS	-0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
162	Sylvester Foreman	C	2	1925	1926	KCM/ABC	-0.3	-0.3	-0.2	0.0	0.3
163	Melton	-	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
164	Geechie Meredith	2B	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.3	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
165	Jimmy Oldham	SP	3	1920	1922	SLS	-0.3	-0.4	0.0	0.1	0.0
166	Nish Williams	C	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.3	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
167	C. M. Olson	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.3	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.0
168	Robert Prior	-	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.4	0.1	0.0	-0.4	0.0
169	Edgar Burch	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.4	0.0
170	Jesse Edwards	LF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.4	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
171	Bubbles Anderson	2B	2	1922	1923	KCM	-0.4	0.2	-0.9	0.0	0.2
172	Jack Ridley	CF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.4	-0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.1
173	Otto Ray	C	1	1922	1922	SLS	-0.5	0.3	-0.8	0.0	0.1
174	Miller	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.5	0.0
175	Juan Padrón	SP	1	1926	1926	ABC	-0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.5	0.0
176	Robert Yendes	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.5	-0.1	-0.1	-0.4	0.0
177	Chet Brewer	-	1	1925	1925	KCM	-0.5	0.3	0.0	-0.8	0.0
178	Raymond Austin	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.6	0.0	0.0	-0.6	0.0
179	Clarence Everett	SS	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.6	-0.8	0.0	0.0	0.1
180	James Field	RP	1	1921	1921	SLS	-0.6	-0.1	0.0	-0.5	0.0
181	Henry Williams	C	2	1923	1930	SLS/KCM	-0.7	-0.6	-0.2	0.0	0.1
182	Albert Davis	RP	1	1927	1927	DS	-0.7	0.2	0.0	-0.8	0.0
183	Luther Farrell	RF	1	1920	1920	SLS	-0.7	0.2	0.0	-0.9	0.0
184	Saulter	-	1	1916	1916	SLS	-0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.7	0.0
185	Clarence White	-	1	1930	1930	BEG	-0.8	-0.1	0.0	-0.7	0.0
186	Gus Steno	-	1	1917	1917	ALL	-0.8	-0.3	-0.5	0.0	-0.1
187	Dick Wallace	3B	4	1916	1921	SLS	-1.0	-0.9	-0.4	0.0	0.4
188	Willie Woods	CF	1	1922	1922	SLS	-1.0	-0.7	-0.3	0.0	0.0
189	Rosey McCauley	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-1.0	-0.1	0.0	-0.9	0.0
190	Tullie McAdoo	1B	5	1916	1922	SLS	-1.1	0.4	-0.7	0.0	-0.8
191	LeRoy Taylor	CF	1	1926	1926	ABC	-1.2	-0.3	-0.7	0.0	-0.2
192	Henry Wright	RF	1	1930	1930	BEG	-1.6	0.0	0.0	-1.6	0.0
193	Lee Wade	RP	1	1916	1916	SLS	-1.6	-0.1	0.0	-1.5	0.0
194	Sidney Brooks	LF	4	1919	1922	SLS	-1.8	-0.1	-1.7	0.2	-0.2
195	Bobby Robinson	-	1	1926	1926	ABC	-1.9	-1.0	-1.1	0.0	0.2
196	Eddie Holtz	SS	4	1919	1922	SLS	-2.8	-2.7	-0.8	0.0	0.7

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