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Earl Averill

Howard Earl Averill (Rock or The Earl of Snohomish)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 172 lb.

Born: May 21, 1902 in Snohomish, WA
High School: Snohomish HS (Snohomish, WA)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1929
Teams (by GP): Indians/Tigers/Braves 1929-1941

Final Game: April 25, 1941
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 1975.
   View Earl Averill Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: August 16, 1983 in Everett, WA
Buried: Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Snohomish, WA
Relatives: Father of Earl Averill
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Hall of Fame

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1929 CLE AL 27 CF 152 152 152 412 383 14 15 3 .964 2.61 .970 2.89
1929 CLE AL 27 OF 152 152 152 411 383 14 14 3 .966 2.61 .966 2.42
1930 CLE AL 28 OF 134 133 130 375 345 11 19 5 .949 2.66 .965 2.32
1930 CLE AL 28 CF 132 131 128 371 341 11 19 5 .949 2.67 .966 2.84
1930 CLE AL 28 RF 2 2 2 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .960 1.95
1931 CLE AL 29 CF 155 155 152 417 398 9 10 3 .976 2.63 .974 2.83 MVP-4
1931 CLE AL 29 OF 155 155 152 417 398 9 10 3 .976 2.63 .969 2.38 MVP-4
1932 CLE AL 30 CF 153 153 153 440 412 12 16 3 .964 2.77 .971 2.94 MVP-4
1932 CLE AL 30 OF 153 153 153 440 412 12 16 3 .964 2.77 .967 2.42 MVP-4
1933 CLE AL 31 CF 149 148 147 410 390 8 12 3 .971 2.67 .976 2.75 AS,MVP-15
1933 CLE AL 31 OF 149 148 147 410 390 8 12 3 .971 2.67 .970 2.37 AS,MVP-15
1934 CLE AL 32 CF 154 154 152 435 410 12 13 3 .970 2.74 .972 2.64 AS,MVP-17
1934 CLE AL 32 OF 154 154 152 435 410 12 13 3 .970 2.74 .968 2.29 AS,MVP-17
1935 CLE AL 33 CF 139 139 133 384 371 6 7 2 .982 2.71 .974 2.84 AS
1935 CLE AL 33 OF 139 139 133 384 371 6 7 2 .982 2.71 .970 2.39 AS
1936 CLE AL 34 CF 150 149 140 392 369 11 12 2 .969 2.53 .974 2.82 AS,MVP-3
1936 CLE AL 34 OF 150 149 140 392 369 11 12 2 .969 2.53 .968 2.38 AS,MVP-3
1937 CLE AL 35 CF 156 156 154 382 362 11 9 3 .976 2.39 .974 2.84 AS,MVP-19
1937 CLE AL 35 OF 156 156 154 382 362 11 9 3 .976 2.39 .969 2.35 AS,MVP-19
1938 CLE AL 36 OF 131 131 125 354 331 14 9 2 .975 2.63 .972 2.35 AS,MVP-8
1938 CLE AL 36 CF 118 118 112 333 311 13 9 1 .973 2.75 .972 2.82 AS,MVP-8
1938 CLE AL 36 RF 13 13 13 21 20 1 0 1 1.000 1.62 .972 2.06 AS,MVP-8
1939 TOT AL 37 OF 91 89 83 176 169 3 4 0 .977 1.89 .969 2.44
1939 CLE AL 37 OF 11 11 11 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 1.09 .969 2.44
1939 CLE AL 37 RF 11 11 11 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 1.09 .962 2.08
1939 DET AL 37 OF 80 78 72 164 157 3 4 0 .976 2.00 .969 2.44
1939 DET AL 37 LF 76 75 69 159 153 2 4 0 .975 2.04 .966 2.38
1939 DET AL 37 CF 4 3 3 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 1.25 .976 2.88
1940 DET AL 38 OF 22 17 16 26 23 2 1 0 .962 1.14 .970 2.40
1940 DET AL 38 CF 11 6 6 17 16 1 0 0 1.000 1.55 .976 2.78
1940 DET AL 38 LF 7 6 6 4 2 1 1 0 .750 0.43 .962 2.33
1940 DET AL 38 RF 5 5 4 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.08
1941 BSN NL 39 OF 4 3 1 7 5 2 0 0 1.000 1.75 .974 2.30
1941 BSN NL 39 CF 3 2 0 5 3 2 0 0 1.000 1.67 .980 2.63
1941 BSN NL 39 LF 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .975 2.30
13 Seasons OF 1590 1579 1538 4209 3968 115 126 29 .970 2.57 .968 2.37
13 Seasons CF 1476 1466 1432 4003 3770 111 122 28 .970 2.63 .972 2.82
3 Seasons LF 84 82 76 165 157 3 5 0 .970 1.90 .966 2.38
4 Seasons RF 31 31 30 42 41 1 0 1 1.000 1.35 .968 2.06
13 Seasons TOT 1590 1579 1538 4209 3968 115 126 29 .970 2.57 .968 2.37
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1929 CLE AL 27 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 152 0 152 0 0 0
1930 CLE AL 28 139 133 139 134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 132 2 134 0 5 0
1931 CLE AL 29 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 0 155 0 0 0
1932 CLE AL 30 153 153 153 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 153 0 153 0 0 0
1933 CLE AL 31 151 148 151 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 149 0 2 0
1934 CLE AL 32 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 154 0 154 0 0 0
1935 CLE AL 33 140 139 140 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 139 0 139 0 1 0
1936 CLE AL 34 152 149 152 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 150 0 150 0 3 0
1937 CLE AL 35 156 156 156 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156 0 156 0 0 0
1938 CLE AL 36 134 131 134 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 118 13 131 0 3 0
1939 DET AL 37 87 78 87 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 4 0 80 0 7 0
1939 CLE AL 37 24 11 24 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0 13 0
1940 DET AL 38 64 17 64 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 11 5 22 0 42 0
1941 BSN NL 39 8 3 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 0 4 0
13 Seasons 1669 1579 1669 1590 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 1476 31 1590 0 80 0
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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1949 BBWAA ( 0.7%)
1952 BBWAA ( 0.9%)
1955 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1956 BBWAA ( 1.6%)
1958 BBWAA ( 5.3%)
1960 BBWAA ( 4.1%)
1962 BBWAA ( 1.9%)
1975 Veterans (inducted)
Selected to HOF in 1975
by Veteran's Committee

All-Star Games
1933 *
1934 *
1935
1936 (CF)
1937 (CF)
1938 (CF)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1931 AL (4, 54%)
1932 AL (4, 46%)
1933 AL (15, 6%)
1934 AL (17, 4%)
1936 AL (3, 60%)
1937 AL (19, 5%)
1938 AL (8, 10%)
1.85 Career Shares (110th)

Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1929 AL  152 (1st)
1930 AL  132 (2nd)
1931 AL  155 (1st)
1932 AL  153 (1st)
1933 AL  149 (2nd)
1934 AL  154 (1st)
1935 AL  139 (2nd)
1936 AL  150 (2nd)
1937 AL  156 (1st)
Career  1,476 (30th)

Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1929 AL  383 (1st)
1930 AL  341 (4th)
1931 AL  398 (3rd)
1932 AL  412 (2nd)
1933 AL  390 (2nd)
1934 AL  410 (1st)
1935 AL  371 (4th)
1936 AL  369 (5th)
1937 AL  362 (4th)
Career  3,770 (30th)

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1929 AL  14 (3rd)
1930 AL  11 (1st)
1931 AL  9 (4th)
1932 AL  12 (3rd)
1934 AL  12 (2nd)
1936 AL  11 (3rd)
1938 AL  13 (5th)
Career  111 (21st)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1929 AL  15 (1st)
1930 AL  19 (1st)
1931 AL  10 (3rd)
1932 AL  16 (1st)
1933 AL  12 (1st)
1934 AL  13 (1st)
1936 AL  12 (2nd)
1937 AL  9 (4th)
1938 AL  9 (5th)
Career  122 (3rd)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1929 AL  152 (1st)
1931 AL  155 (1st)
1932 AL  153 (2nd)
1933 AL  149 (3rd)
1934 AL  154 (1st)
1936 AL  150 (2nd)
1937 AL  156 (1st)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1929 AL  383 (1st)
1930 AL  345 (4th)
1931 AL  398 (3rd)
1932 AL  412 (3rd)
1933 AL  390 (2nd)
1934 AL  410 (1st)
1935 AL  371 (5th)
1936 AL  369 (5th)
1937 AL  362 (4th)
Career  3,968 (73rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1938 AL  14 (5th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1929 AL  14 (5th)
1930 AL  19 (1st)
1933 AL  12 (5th)
1934 AL  13 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 AL  2.67 (3rd)
1934 AL  2.74 (2nd)
1938 AL  2.75 (5th)
Career  2.63 (60th)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1931 AL  .976 (4th)
1934 AL  .970 (5th)
1935 AL  .982 (2nd)
1937 AL  .976 (3rd)
1938 AL  .973 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1930 AL  2.66 (5th)
1933 AL  2.67 (3rd)
1934 AL  2.74 (1st)
Career  2.57 (55th)

Oldest s c a p y
1940 AL  born 1902-05-21 (5th)
1941 NL  born 1902-05-21 (6th)

             

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