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Dick Bartell

Richard William Bartell (Rowdy Richard or Shortwave)

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: November 22, 1907 in Chicago, IL
High School: Alameda HS (Alameda, CA)(All Transactions)
Debut: October 2, 1927
Teams (by GP): Giants/Phillies/Pirates/Tigers/Cubs 1927-1946

Final Game: May 24, 1946
Died: August 4, 1995 in Alameda, CA
Buried: Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA
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All-Star

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
1927 PIT NL 19 SS 1 1 1 5 3 2 0 1 1.000 5.00 .944 5.50
1928 PIT NL 20 2B 39 37 33 230 106 118 6 26 .974 5.74 .970 5.93
1928 PIT NL 20 SS 27 26 23 143 52 81 10 14 .930 4.93 .950 5.61
1928 PIT NL 20 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.10
1929 PIT NL 21 SS 74 79 76 446 179 246 21 42 .953 5.74 .950 5.61
1929 PIT NL 21 2B 70 63 63 437 213 212 12 45 .973 6.07 .968 5.82
1930 PIT NL 22 SS 126 125 125 810 304 458 48 111 .941 6.05 .952 5.78
1931 PHI NL 23 SS 133 132 131 788 315 432 41 96 .948 5.62 .954 5.53 MVP-23
1931 PHI NL 23 2B 3 3 2 15 4 10 1 2 .933 4.67 .964 5.60 MVP-23
1932 PHI NL 24 SS 154 154 153 922 359 529 34 83 .963 5.77 .946 5.50
1933 PHI NL 25 SS 152 152 150 919 381 493 45 100 .951 5.75 .949 5.40 AS,MVP-21
1934 PHI NL 26 SS 146 146 145 873 350 483 40 93 .954 5.71 .951 5.34
1935 NYG NL 27 SS 137 135 133 800 339 424 37 71 .954 5.57 .947 5.27
1936 NYG NL 28 SS 144 143 135 916 317 559 40 106 .956 6.08 .945 5.43 MVP-19
1937 NYG NL 29 SS 128 126 124 790 281 476 33 96 .958 5.91 .951 5.29 AS,MVP-6
1938 NYG NL 30 SS 127 127 126 772 288 447 37 85 .952 5.79 .943 5.34
1939 CHC NL 31 SS 101 99 96 581 241 307 33 62 .943 5.43 .953 5.50
1939 CHC NL 31 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00
1940 DET AL 32 SS 139 137 120 723 295 394 34 74 .953 4.96 .949 4.85 MVP-12
1941 TOT MLB 33 SS 26 19 18 103 43 56 4 7 .961 3.81 .950 5.13
1941 DET AL 33 SS 5 5 4 25 12 11 2 2 .920 4.60 .948 4.96
1941 NYG NL 33 3B 84 82 74 271 91 169 11 16 .959 3.10 .949 3.33
1941 NYG NL 33 SS 21 14 14 78 31 45 2 5 .974 3.62 .951 5.17
1942 NYG NL 34 3B 52 49 45 198 76 115 7 13 .965 3.67 .940 3.19
1942 NYG NL 34 SS 31 30 30 142 59 76 7 14 .951 4.35 .955 5.22
1943 NYG NL 35 3B 54 54 53 197 62 131 4 9 .980 3.57 .948 3.17 MVP-24
1943 NYG NL 35 SS 33 31 30 200 66 127 7 17 .965 5.85 .954 5.30 MVP-24
1946 NYG NL 38 3B 4 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 0.75 .953 3.08
1946 NYG NL 38 2B 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .970 5.55
17 Seasons SS 1679 1662 1616 9933 3872 5590 471 1072 .953 5.64 .949 5.39
6 Seasons 3B 196 185 172 669 229 418 22 38 .967 3.30 .946 3.24
4 Seasons 2B 114 103 98 683 324 340 19 73 .972 5.82 .969 5.85
18 Seasons TOT 1989 1950 1886 11285 4425 6348 512 1183 .955 5.42 .950 5.20
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
1927 PIT NL 19 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1928 PIT NL 20 72 63 72 65 0 0 0 39 1 28 0 0 0 0 0 2 5
1929 PIT NL 21 143 142 143 143 0 0 0 64 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1930 PIT NL 22 129 126 129 126 0 0 0 1 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1931 PHI NL 23 135 135 135 135 0 0 0 3 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 PHI NL 24 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1933 PHI NL 25 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1934 PHI NL 26 146 146 146 146 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 NYG NL 27 137 135 137 137 0 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1936 NYG NL 28 145 143 145 144 0 0 0 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1937 NYG NL 29 128 126 128 128 0 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1938 NYG NL 30 127 127 127 127 0 0 0 0 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1939 CHC NL 31 105 99 105 102 0 0 0 0 1 101 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1940 DET AL 32 139 137 139 139 0 0 0 0 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1941 NYG NL 33 104 96 104 100 0 0 0 0 84 21 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1941 DET AL 33 5 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1942 NYG NL 34 90 79 90 81 0 0 0 0 50 33 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1943 NYG NL 35 99 85 99 86 0 0 0 0 54 33 0 0 0 0 0 12 1
1946 NYG NL 38 5 0 5 5 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Seasons 2016 1951 2016 1976 0 0 0 109 194 1687 0 0 0 0 0 32 8
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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
1948 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1951 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1958 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1960 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

All-Star Games
1933 (SS)
1937 (SS)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1931 NL (23, 2%)
1933 NL (21, 4%)
1936 NL (19, 2%)
1937 NL (6, 32%)
1940 AL (12, 8%)
1943 NL (24, 1%)
0.49 Career Shares (453rd)

Assists† s c a p y
1932 NL  529 (1st)
1933 NL  493 (4th)
1934 NL  483 (2nd)
1935 NL  424 (4th)
1936 NL  559 (1st)
1937 NL  476 (4th)
1938 NL  447 (5th)
Career  6,348 (29th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1929 NL  33 (5th)
1930 NL  48 (2nd)
1931 NL  42 (1st)
1933 NL  45 (2nd)
1934 NL  40 (5th)
1936 NL  40 (4th)
1938 NL  37 (4th)
1939 NL  33 (5th)
Career  512 (77th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1930 NL  126 (5th)
1931 NL  133 (4th)
1932 NL  154 (1st)
1933 NL  152 (1st)
1934 NL  146 (2nd)
1935 NL  137 (3rd)
1936 NL  144 (2nd)
1937 NL  128 (4th)
1938 NL  127 (5th)
1940 AL  139 (5th)
Career  1,679 (40th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1930 NL  304 (4th)
1931 NL  315 (2nd)
1932 NL  359 (1st)
1933 NL  381 (1st)
1934 NL  350 (1st)
1935 NL  339 (2nd)
1936 NL  317 (2nd)
1937 NL  281 (3rd)
1938 NL  288 (2nd)
1939 NL  241 (5th)
1940 AL  295 (2nd)
Career  3,872 (16th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1930 NL  458 (4th)
1931 NL  432 (4th)
1932 NL  529 (1st)
1933 NL  493 (2nd)
1934 NL  483 (1st)
1935 NL  424 (2nd)
1936 NL  559 (1st)
1937 NL  476 (2nd)
1938 NL  447 (2nd)
1940 AL  394 (5th)
Career  5,590 (35th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1930 NL  48 (2nd)
1931 NL  41 (1st)
1932 NL  34 (5th)
1933 NL  45 (2nd)
1934 NL  40 (3rd)
1935 NL  37 (3rd)
1936 NL  40 (4th)
1937 NL  33 (3rd)
1938 NL  37 (3rd)
1939 NL  33 (3rd)
1940 AL  34 (4th)
Career  471 (28th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1941 NL  .959 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1930 NL  6.05 (1st)
1931 NL  5.62 (2nd)
1932 NL  5.77 (1st)
1933 NL  5.75 (1st)
1934 NL  5.71 (1st)
1935 NL  5.57 (2nd)
1936 NL  6.08 (1st)
1937 NL  5.91 (1st)
1938 NL  5.79 (1st)
1939 NL  5.43 (5th)
1940 AL  4.96 (2nd)
Career  5.64 (10th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1932 NL  .963 (2nd)
1933 NL  .951 (4th)
1934 NL  .954 (4th)
1935 NL  .954 (3rd)
1936 NL  .956 (3rd)
1937 NL  .958 (3rd)
1938 NL  .952 (4th)
1940 AL  .953 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1927 NL  born 1907-11-22 (2nd)
1928 NL  born 1907-11-22 (3rd)
1929 NL  born 1907-11-22 (8th)

                                         

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