Hank Arft

Henry Irven Arft (Bow Wow)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: January 28, 1922 in Manchester, MO
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1940. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 27, 1948
Team: Browns 1948-1952

Final Game: May 23, 1952
Died: December 14, 2002 in St. Louis, MO
Buried: St. John Cemetery, Manchester, MO
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1948	SLB	AL	26	1B	69	69	69		644	598	43	3	81	.995		9.29	.991		9.69
1950	SLB	AL	28	1B	84	77	68	678.1	756	701	51	4	59	.995	9.98	8.95	.989	9.54	9.37
1951	SLB	AL	29	1B	97	93	88	827.1	916	820	86	10	100	.989	9.86	9.34	.990	9.70	9.66
1952	SLB	AL	30	1B	10	7	6	67.0	68	63	4	1	11	.985	9.00	6.70	.988	9.63	9.62
	4 Seasons			1B	260	246	231	1572.2	2384	2182	184	18	251	.992	9.87	9.10	.990	9.63	9.57
	5 Seasons			TOT	260	246	231	1572.2	2384	2182	184	18	251	.992	9.87	9.10	.990	9.63	9.57

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1948	SLB	AL	26	1B
1950	SLB	AL	28	1B
1951	SLB	AL	29	1B
1952	SLB	AL	30	1B
	4 Seasons			1B
	5 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	PH
1948	SLB	AL	26	69	69	69	69	69	0
1949	SLB	AL	27	6	0	6	0	0	6
1950	SLB	AL	28	98	77	98	84	84	14
1951	SLB	AL	29	112	93	112	97	97	15
1952	SLB	AL	30	15	7	15	10	10	5
	5 Seasons			300	246	300	260	260	40

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 -- 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%
1948	SLB	AL	26	1153	59%	82%	25%	71	93%	0	251	16	233	2	33	19	14	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	31	1	0	0	27	1	4	0	4	4	100%
1950	SLB	AL	28	1762	60%	83%	26%	90	98%	0	403	22	378	3	40	28	21	6	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	32	1	0	0	32	1	0	0	0	4	100%
1951	SLB	AL	29	2456	57%	81%	24%	161	92%	1	545	35	504	6	65	51	39	7	1	2	7	0	7	0	4	71	2	0	0	61	2	10	1	8	9	78%
1952	SLB	AL	30	269	70%	82%	26%	16	94%	0	63	5	57	1	6	4	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	11	0	1	0	10	1	1	0	1	0
	4 Seasons			5640	59%	82%	25%	338	94%	1	1262	78	1172	12	144	102	77	17	1	3	10	0	10	0	5	145	4	1	0	130	5	15	1	13	17	88%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%																											86%

* 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

Assists as 1B s c a p y 1951 AL 86 (4th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1951 AL 10 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1950 AL 9.98 (2nd) 1951 AL 9.86 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1951 AL 9.34 (4th)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1950 AL .995 (1st) 1951 AL .989 (5th)

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