SPORTS  :  Baseball  |  Football  |  Basketball  |  Hockey  |  Olympics  View Sports-Reference.com's new Olympic Section
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Elmer Koestner

Elmer Koestner
Elmer Joseph Koestner (Bob)

Bats Right, Throws Right
Weight 175 lb.

Debut April 23, 1910
Final Game July 1, 1914
Born November 30, 1885 in Piper City, IL
Died October 27, 1959 in Fairbury, IL

 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Sponsor this page for $5 per year and help Baseball-Reference.com provide this service.

  

Pitching  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  W   L   G   GS  CG SHO  GF SV   IP     H    R   ER   HR  BB   SO  HBP  WP  BFP  IBB  BK  ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
 1910 24 CLE AL   5  10  27  13   8   1  13  2  145.0  145   76   49   0   63   44   6   7   583       0  3.04  2.59   85 1.434
 1914 28 TOT NL   0   0   9   1   0   0   7  0   24.7   24   20   11   0   13   12   0   2   112       0  4.01  2.89   72 1.500
         CHC NL   0   0   4   0   0   0   3  0    6.3    6    5    2   0    4    6   0   2    30       0  2.84  2.79   98 1.579
         CIN NL   0   0   5   1   0   0   4  0   18.3   18   15    9   0    9    6   0   0    82       0  4.42  2.92   66 1.473
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
  2 Yr WL% .333   5  10  36  14   8   1  20  2  169.7  169   96   60   0   76   56   6   9   695       0  3.18  2.64   83 1.444
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
 162 Game Avg     6  13  48  19  10   1  27  2  230.7  229  130   81   0  103   76   8  12   945   0   0  3.18  2.64   83 1.444
 Career High      5  10  27  13   8   1  13  2  145.0  145   76   49   0   63   44   6   7   583   0   0  3.04  2.59   85 1.434

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / 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 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1910 24 CLE AL  27   48    4   15   1  0   0    3   2      0      .313  .313  .333  101   16   6           0    
 1914 28 TOT NL   9    6    0    2   1  0   0    0   0      0   0  .333  .333  .500  144    3   0           0    
         CHC NL   4    1    0    0   0  0   0    0   0      0   0  .000  .000  .000 -100    0   0           0    
         CIN NL   5    5    0    2   1  0   0    0   0      0   0  .400  .400  .600  192    3   0           0    
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 2 Seasons       36   54    4   17   2  0   0    3   2  0   0   0  .315  .315  .352  106   19   6   0   0   0   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        243   18   77   9  0   0   14   9  0   0   0  .315  .315  .352  106   86  27   0   0   0   0
 Career High     27   48    4   15   1  0   0    3   2  0   0   0                          16   6   0   0   0   0
Special Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1910 24 CLE AL   54   39    5   3.5    76| .313  .251| .313  .317| .333  .324| .646  .642| 101  .534  -0.2   0.0     
 1914 28 TOT NL    6    4    1   6.7    86| .333  .262| .333  .330| .500  .350| .833  .680| 144  .766   0.3   0.1     
         CHC NL    1    1    0   0.0    84| .000  .259| .000  .327| .000  .346| .000  .673|-100  .000  -0.2   0.0     
         CIN NL    5    3    1   8.9    86| .400  .262| .400  .331| .600  .351|1.000  .681| 192  .847   0.6   0.1     
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 2 Seasons        60   43    6   3.8    77| .315  .252| .315  .319| .352  .327| .667  .646| 106  .569   0.1   0.1     

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn  
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1910 24 CLE AL P 27 9 41 4 3 .926 .942 1.85 2.35 3.10 3.29 13 145.0 1914 28 TOT NL P 9 1 6 1 1 .875 .933 0.78 1.64 2.56 2.67 1 24.6 CHC NL P 4 0 1 0 0 1.000 .909 0.25 1.65 1.43 2.71 0 6.3 CIN NL P 5 1 5 1 1 .857 .938 1.20 1.64 2.95 2.66 1 18.3
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1910 24 CLE AL P 27 9 41 4 3 .926 .942 1.85 2.35 3.10 3.29 13 145.0 1914 28 TOT NL P 9 1 6 1 1 .875 .933 0.78 1.64 2.56 2.67 1 24.6 CHC NL P 4 0 1 0 0 1.000 .909 0.25 1.65 1.43 2.71 0 6.3 CIN NL P 5 1 5 1 1 .857 .938 1.20 1.64 2.95 2.66 1 18.3
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Position Total P* 36 10 47 5 4 .919 .941 1.58 2.17 3.02 3.20 14 169.7 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Overall Total 36 10 47 5 4 .919 .941 1.58 2.17 3.02 3.19 14 170
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.

Saves
1910 AL-2-3

Games Finished
1910 AL-13-4

Gray Ink: Pitching - 3 (2076) (Average HOFer ≈ 185)
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.


Similar Pitchers View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Allan Collamore (989)
  2. Dave Black (987)
  3. Burt Keeley (985)
  4. Harry Shriver (983)
  5. Bob Black (982)
  6. Otis Lambeth (981)
  7. Limb McKenry (981)
  8. Ben Tincup (981)
  9. Tommy de la Cruz (980)
  10. John Eubank (980)
Most Similar by Age 
  1. Bob Wicker (988)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Allan Collamore (989)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

June 1, 1914: Selected off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds from the Chicago Cubs.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Uniforms 
View Elmer Koestner's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Elmer Koestner    

Viewed 5852 times through July 25, 2008.
Name and misspellings: Elmer Bob Elmer Joseph Koestner

Pages Updated through July 24,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Elmer Koestner
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through July 24, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.