Harry Anderson

Harry Walter Anderson (Harry the Horse)

Positions: Leftfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: September 10, 1931 in North East, MD
School: West Chester University of Pennsylvania (West Chester, PA)
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1953. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1957
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Reds 1957-1961

Final Game: May 5, 1961
Died: June 11, 1998 in Greenville, DE
Buried: Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, DE
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1957	PHI	NL	25	OF	109	104	79	913.0	221	213	5	3	1	.986	-0	-1	2.15	2.00	.980	2.29	2.31	MVP-25
1957	PHI	NL	25	LF	108	104	79	906.0	219	211	6	2	1	.991	-0	-1	2.16	2.01	.978	2.03	2.05	MVP-25
1957	PHI	NL	25	RF	1	0	0	7.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	2.57	2.00	.970	1.93	2.00	MVP-25
1958	PHI	NL	26	LF	88	82	78	738.2	164	156	4	4	1	.976	-6	-10	1.95	1.82	.975	2.01	2.00	MVP-18
1958	PHI	NL	26	OF	87	82	78	738.2	163	155	4	4	1	.975	-6	-10	1.94	1.83	.980	2.26	2.25	MVP-18
1958	PHI	NL	26	1B	49	47	41	435.0	435	397	29	9	39	.979	-1	-2	8.81	8.69	.990	9.54	9.49	MVP-18
1959	PHI	NL	27	LF	137	136	114	1159.0	310	286	18	6	4	.981	10	11	2.36	2.22	.971	2.04	2.02
1959	PHI	NL	27	OF	137	136	114	1159.0	306	283	17	6	4	.980	10	11	2.33	2.19	.977	2.21	2.19
1960	TOT	NL	28	1B	27	23	14	176.1	189	174	13	2	9	.989	-1	-7	9.54	6.93	.990	9.56	9.55
1960	TOT	NL	28	OF	20	17	9	143.2	30	29	1	0	0	1.000	-3	-22	1.88	1.50	.978	2.20	2.20
1960	TOT	NL	28	LF	18	16	8	131.2	29	28	1	0	0	1.000	-2	-19	1.98	1.61	.974	1.99	1.99
1960	PHI	NL	28	LF	16	14	7	118.2	26	25	1	0	0	1.000	-2	-21	1.97	1.63	.974	1.99	1.99
1960	PHI	NL	28	OF	16	14	7	118.2	26	25	1	0	0	1.000	-2	-21	1.97	1.63	.978	2.20	2.20
1960	PHI	NL	28	1B	12	11	5	79.1	88	81	6	1	3	.989	-2	-24	9.87	7.25	.990	9.56	9.55
1960	CIN	NL	28	1B	15	12	9	97.0	101	93	7	1	6	.990	1	7	9.28	6.67	.990	9.57	9.55
1960	CIN	NL	28	OF	4	3	2	25.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-24	1.44	1.00	.978	2.20	2.20
1960	CIN	NL	28	LF	2	2	1	13.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	2.08	1.50	.973	2.01	2.00
1960	CIN	NL	28	RF	2	1	1	12.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-50	0.75	0.50	.980	2.03	2.00
	4 Seasons			OF	353	339	280	2954.1	720	680	27	13	6	.982	1	1	2.15	2.00	.979	2.25	2.24
	4 Seasons			LF	351	338	279	2935.1	722	681	29	12	6	.983	2	1	2.18	2.02	.974	2.03	2.02
	2 Seasons			1B	76	70	55	611.1	624	571	42	11	48	.982	-2	-3	9.02	8.07	.990	9.55	9.51
	2 Seasons			RF	3	1	1	19.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-32	1.42	1.00	.973	1.99	2.00
	5 Seasons			TOT	429	409	335	3565.2	1344	1251	69	24	54	.982	-0	-0	3.33	3.08	.984	3.50	3.53
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof
1957	PHI	NL	25	LF	-0	-1	4	1	2		-4
1957	PHI	NL	25	RF	0	0	0	0	0		0
1958	PHI	NL	26	LF	-6	-10	-5	-6	1		-1
1958	PHI	NL	26	1B	-1	-2	-1	0	-1	0
1959	PHI	NL	27	LF	10	11	8	3	4		3
1960	PHI	NL	28	LF	-2	-21	-2	-2	-0		0
1960	PHI	NL	28	1B	-2	-24	-2	-1	-0	0
1960	CIN	NL	28	1B	1	7	1	1	-1	0
1960	CIN	NL	28	LF	0	0	0	0	-0		0
1960	CIN	NL	28	RF	-0	-50	-0	-0	-0		0
	4 Seasons			LF	2	1	4	-3	7		-2
	2 Seasons			1B	-2	-3	-2	0	-2	0
	2 Seasons			RF	-0	-32	-0	-0	-0		0
	5 Seasons			TOT	-0	-0	2	-3	5	0	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1957	PHI	NL	25	118	104	118	109	0	108	1	109	13	1
1958	PHI	NL	26	140	129	140	133	49	88	0	88	11	0
1959	PHI	NL	27	142	136	142	137	0	137	0	137	6	0
1960	CIN	NL	28	42	15	42	18	15	2	2	4	25	0
1960	PHI	NL	28	38	25	38	27	12	16	0	16	13	0
1961	CIN	NL	29	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
	5 Seasons			484	409	484	424	76	351	3	354	72	1

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1957	PHI	NL	25	2	0	2	0	0	6	0	1	3	0	52	37	3	39	3	0	18	5	0	10	0	0	15	13	1	134	58	43.3%	72	4	3.0%	2	3811	66%	79%	33%	442	49%
1958	PHI	NL	26	4	0	4	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	50	35	2	31	6	0	11	7	0	10	3	0	8	8	0	110	59	53.6%	48	2	1.8%	2	3152	60%	82%	32%	368	43%
1959	PHI	NL	27	6	0	5	1	0	18	0	5	5	4	50	36	4	37	10	0	30	11	5	17	6	1	24	20	0	158	83	52.5%	65	10	6.3%	8	4969	56%	81%	31%	586	52%
1960	PHI	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	6	2	0	7	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	15	6	40.0%	9	0	0.0%	1	528	55%	84%	27%	56	46%
1960	CIN	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	53	60%	70%	23%	5	60%
	4 Seasons			12	0	11	1	0	29	0	7	10	4	158	110	9	114	21	0	60	24	5	37	9	1	48	42	1	417	206	49.4%	194	16	3.8%	13	12513	60%	81%	32%	1457	48%
	MLB Averages																														58.0%			2.6%			64%	80%	29%		47%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1958	PHI	NL	26	1868	64%	81%	27%	108	94%	0	395	33	360	2	44	26	19	6	0	0	9	1	7	1	4	41	1	0	0	38	1	3	1	2	9	78%
1960	CIN	NL	28	409	65%	83%	30%	23	100%	0	88	5	84	0	10	8	6	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	5	0	1	0	1	4	100%
1960	PHI	NL	28	355	65%	83%	28%	17	94%	0	81	4	77	0	7	6	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	100%
	2 Seasons			2632	65%	82%	28%	148	95%	0	564	42	521	2	61	40	29	9	0	0	11	3	7	1	4	50	1	0	0	45	1	5	1	3	16	88%
	MLB Averages				64%	80%	27%		94%																											87%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1957	PHI	NL	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	30	57%	90%	23%	3	67%
1960	CIN	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	50.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	55	56%	78%	35%	4	25%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	85	56%	82%	31%	7	43%
	MLB Averages																														40.7%			3.1%			64%	80%	29%		53%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1957 NL (25, 0%) 1958 NL (18, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (1497th)	Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 1959 NL 11 (5th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1958 NL 9 (5th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1957 NL 108 (1st) 1958 NL 88 (3rd) 1959 NL 137 (2nd)
Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1957 NL 211 (2nd) 1958 NL 156 (4th) 1959 NL 286 (2nd)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1957 NL 6 (5th) 1958 NL 4 (5th) 1959 NL 18 (1st)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1959 NL 6 (2nd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1959 NL 17 (1st)
Total Zone Runs as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1959 NL 11 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1957 NL 2.16 (3rd) 1958 NL 1.95 (4th) 1959 NL 2.36 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1957 NL 2.01 (2nd) 1958 NL 1.82 (3rd) 1959 NL 2.22 (1st)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1957 NL .991 (4th) 1958 NL .976 (5th) 1959 NL .981 (4th)
Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 1959 NL 11 (2nd)

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