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

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