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Bill Keister played 7 major-league seasons (1896-1903) as a SS (215), 2B (214), OF (167), 3B (23). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 7 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 25 | BLN | 15 | 58 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | .241 | .595 | 61 |
| 1898 | 27 | BSN | 10 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .167 | .400 | 17 |
| 1899 | 28 | BLN | 136 | 523 | 96 | 172 | 3 | 73 | 33 | 16 | 16 | .329 | .817 | 130 |
| 1900 | 29 | SLN | 126 | 497 | 78 | 149 | 1 | 72 | 32 | 25 | 15 | .300 | .745 | 111 |
| 1901 | 30 | BLA | 115 | 442 | 78 | 145 | 2 | 93 | 24 | 18 | 23 | .328 | .847 | 140 |
| 1902 | 31 | WS1 | 119 | 483 | 82 | 145 | 9 | 90 | 27 | 14 | 22 | .300 | .791 | 125 |
| 1903 | 32 | PHI | 100 | 400 | 53 | 128 | 3 | 63 | 11 | 14 | 32 | .320 | .797 | 134 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 2B | 8 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 1 |
| 1896 | 3B | 6 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 1 |
| 1898 | 2B | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| 1898 | SS | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 1898 | OF | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1899 | SS | 90 | 0 | 169 | 283 | 53 | 25 |
| 1899 | 2B | 46 | 0 | 94 | 117 | 13 | 11 |
| 1899 | OF | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1900 | 2B | 116 | 0 | 206 | 315 | 41 | 26 |
| 1900 | SS | 7 | 0 | 14 | 21 | 8 | 1 |
| 1900 | 3B | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 1901 | SS | 112 | 0 | 231 | 322 | 97 | 30 |
| 1902 | OF | 65 | 0 | 115 | 9 | 12 | 3 |
| 1902 | 2B | 40 | 0 | 97 | 121 | 11 | 9 |
| 1902 | 3B | 14 | 0 | 14 | 28 | 10 | 1 |
| 1902 | SS | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| 1903 | OF | 100 | 0 | 136 | 22 | 10 | 1 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Bill Keister ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #111 | shortstops | 1901 | 140 OPS+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.