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Frank House
Henry Franklin House (Pig)

Bats Left, Throws Right
Height 6' 2", Weight 190 lb.

Debut July 21, 1950
Final Game September 25, 1961
Born February 18, 1930 in Bessemer, AL
Died March 13, 2005 in Birmingham, AL

Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)

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Batting  Glossary /
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/ Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1950 20 DET AL   5    5    1    2   1  0   0    0   0  0   0   1  .400  .400  .600  150    3   0           0   0
 1951 21 DET AL  18   41    3    9   2  0   1    4   1  1   6   2  .220  .319  .341   79   14   1           0   3
 1954 24 DET AL 114  352   35   88  12  1   9   38   2  1  31  34  .250  .307  .366   86  129   1   7       1   7
 1955 25 DET AL 102  328   37   85  11  1  15   53   0  0  22  25  .259  .308  .436  101  143   2   4   4   3   4
 1956 26 DET AL  94  321   44   77   6  2  10   44   1  1  21  19  .240  .290  .364   72  117   0   3   0   3  15
 1957 27 DET AL 106  348   31   90   9  0   7   36   1  1  35  26  .259  .327  .345   82  120   5   1  13   1  12
 1958 28 KCA AL  76  202   16   51   6  3   4   24   1  0  12  13  .252  .295  .371   81   75   1   2   2   1   9
 1959 29 KCA AL  98  347   32   82  14  3   1   30   0  3  20  23  .236  .282  .303   60  105   2   0   6   2  10
 1960 30 CIN NL  23   28    0    5   2  0   0    3   0  0   0   2  .179  .179  .250   15    7   0   0   0   0   2
 1961 31 DET AL  17   22    3    5   1  1   0    3   0  0   4   2  .227  .333  .364   85    8   1   1   0   0   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 10 Seasons     653 1994  202  494  64 11  47  235   6  7 151 147  .248  .302  .362   79  721  13  18  25  11  63
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        495   50  123  16  3  12   58   1  2  37  36  .248  .302  .362   79  179   3   4   6   3  16
 Career High    114  352   44   90  14  3  15   53   2  3  35  34  .259  .327  .436  101  143   5   7  13   3  15
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1950 20 DET AL    5    3    1   8.8   116| .400  .282| .400  .370| .600  .423|1.000  .793| 150  .742   0.4   0.0   0%
 1951 21 DET AL   48   37    4   2.9   102| .220  .267| .319  .349| .341  .392| .660  .741|  79  .308  -1.2  -0.1  50%
 1954 24 DET AL  392  280   40   3.8    97| .250  .263| .307  .338| .366  .384| .673  .723|  86  .451  -7.1  -0.7  66%
 1955 25 DET AL  359  253   45   4.8   101| .259  .264| .308  .343| .436  .393| .744  .736| 101  .518  -1.6  -0.2   0%
 1956 26 DET AL  348  263   31   3.2   107| .240  .268| .290  .351| .364  .410| .654  .760|  72  .317 -15.1  -1.5  50%
 1957 27 DET AL  390  277   38   3.7   102| .259  .266| .327  .339| .345  .402| .672  .741|  82  .424  -8.9  -0.9  50%
 1958 28 KCA AL  218  163   20   3.3   100| .252  .264| .295  .333| .371  .401| .666  .734|  81  .380  -6.0  -0.6 100%
 1959 29 KCA AL  371  280   27   2.6   100| .236  .263| .282  .334| .303  .401| .585  .736|  60  .276 -20.2  -2.1   0%
 1960 30 CIN NL   28   25    1   1.1   101| .179  .265| .179  .332| .250  .407| .429  .739|  15  .072  -3.3  -0.3   0%
 1961 31 DET AL   28   20    3   4.0   106| .227  .267| .333  .343| .364  .416| .697  .759|  85  .432  -0.4   0.0   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 10 Seasons     2187 1601  210   3.5   101| .248  .265| .302  .340| .362  .399| .664  .739|  79  .393 -63.4  -6.4  46%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn    PB  WP  SB   CS
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1950 20 DET AL C 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 .980 1.00 4.20 0 1951 21 DET AL C 18 56 11 3 1 .957 .982 3.72 4.40 0 1954 24 DET AL C 107 434 56 4 7 .992 .986 4.58 4.76 4 1955 25 DET AL C 93 423 35 6 5 .987 .988 4.92 4.73 3 1956 26 DET AL C 88 450 33 7 8 .986 .988 5.49 5.02 6.20 5.91 78 700.7 3 16 17 17 1957 27 DET AL C 97 535 54 2 5 .997 .991 6.07 5.11 6.24 5.92 95 849.3 5 12 22 21 1958 28 KCA AL C 55 236 22 2 4 .992 .990 4.69 5.34 5.28 6.01 52 440.0 7 10 17 15 1959 29 KCA AL C 95 447 43 9 7 .982 .989 5.16 5.31 5.45 6.08 92 808.7 7 25 33 16 1960 30 CIN NL C 8 21 2 0 1 1.000 .987 2.88 5.41 6.97 6.58 1 29.7 0 0 1 1 1961 31 DET AL C 14 36 1 1 0 .974 .989 2.64 5.44 5.62 6.21 5 59.3 0 2 3 1
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1950 20 DET AL C 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 .980 1.00 4.20 0 1951 21 DET AL C 18 56 11 3 1 .957 .982 3.72 4.40 0 1954 24 DET AL C 107 434 56 4 7 .992 .986 4.58 4.76 4 1955 25 DET AL C 93 423 35 6 5 .987 .988 4.92 4.73 3 1956 26 DET AL C 88 450 33 7 8 .986 .988 5.49 5.02 6.20 5.91 78 700.7 3 16 17 17 1957 27 DET AL C 97 535 54 2 5 .997 .991 6.07 5.11 6.24 5.92 95 849.3 5 12 22 21 1958 28 KCA AL C 55 236 22 2 4 .992 .990 4.69 5.34 5.28 6.01 52 440.0 7 10 17 15 1959 29 KCA AL C 95 447 43 9 7 .982 .989 5.16 5.31 5.45 6.08 92 808.7 7 25 33 16 1960 30 CIN NL C 8 21 2 0 1 1.000 .987 2.88 5.41 6.97 6.58 1 29.7 0 0 1 1 1961 31 DET AL C 14 36 1 1 0 .974 .989 2.64 5.44 5.62 6.21 5 59.3 0 2 3 1
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+ Position Total C* 580 2642 258 34 38 .988 .988 5.00 5.01 323 2887.7 29 65 93 71 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+ Overall Total 580 2642 258 34 38 .988 .988 5.00 5.01
An Important note about our fielding stats

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

Sac. Flies
1954 AL-7-8

Intentional Walks
1957 AL-13-3
1959 AL-6-7

Youngest Player
1950 AL-20-4
1951 AL-21-7

HOF Standards: Batting - 2.0 (3464) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


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Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

Before 1949 Season: Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent.

November 20, 1957: Traded by the Detroit Tigers with a player to be named later, Kent Hadley, Duke Maas, Jim Small, John Tsitouris, and Bill Tuttle to the Kansas City Athletics for Gus Zernial, Billy Martin, Tom Morgan, Lou Skizas, Mickey McDermott, and Tim Thompson. The Detroit Tigers sent Jim McManus (April 3, 1958) to the Kansas City Athletics to complete the trade.

November 21, 1959: Traded by the Kansas City Athletics to the Cincinnati Redlegs for Tom Acker.

February 24, 1961: Purchased by the Baltimore Orioles from the Cincinnati Reds.

July 21, 1961: Traded by the Baltimore Orioles to the Detroit Tigers for Harry Chiti.

October 23, 1961: Released by the Detroit Tigers.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
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