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Ollie Beard

Oliver Perry Beard

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: May 2, 1862 in Lexington, KY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1889
Teams (by GP): RedStockings/Reds/Colonels 1889-1891

Final Game: June 28, 1891
Died: May 28, 1929 in Cincinnati, OH
Cremated
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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 Awards
1889 CIN AA 27 SS 141 838 214 537 87 63 .896 5.33 .873 5.13
1890 CIN NL 28 SS 113 629 145 419 65 43 .897 4.99 .902 5.33
1890 CIN NL 28 3B 9 42 10 26 6 2 .857 4.00 .884 3.51
1891 LOU AA 29 3B 61 265 84 149 32 16 .879 3.82 .872 3.63
1891 LOU AA 29 SS 7 34 7 23 4 1 .882 4.29 .879 5.14
3 Seasons SS 261 1501 366 979 156 107 .896 5.15 .885 5.22
2 Seasons 3B 70 307 94 175 38 18 .876 3.84 .874 3.61
3 Seasons TOT 331 1808 460 1154 194 125 .893 4.88 .883 4.88
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
1889 CIN AA 27 141 141 0 0 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0
1890 CIN NL 28 122 122 0 0 0 0 9 113 0 0 0 0 0
1891 LOU AA 29 68 68 0 0 0 0 61 7 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 331 331 0 0 0 0 70 261 0 0 0 0 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

Assistss c a p y
1889 AA  537 (1st)
1890 NL  445 (4th)

Errors Committeds c a p y
1890 NL  71 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1889 AA  141 (1st)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1889 AA  214 (4th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1889 AA  537 (1st)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1889 AA  87 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1889 AA  5.33 (3rd)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1889 AA  .896 (3rd)

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