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Beals Becker

David Beals Becker

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: July 5, 1886 in El Dorado, KS (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1908
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Giants/Doves/Reds/Pirates 1908-1915

Final Game: October 6, 1915
Died: August 16, 1943 in Huntington Park, CA
Buried: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
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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 G Awards
1908 TOT NL 21 OF 60 72 57 12 3 1 .958 1.15 .960 2.04 0-1-59
1908 PIT NL 21 OF 17 21 17 4 0 0 1.000 1.24 .960 2.04 0-0-17
1908 BSN NL 21 OF 43 51 40 8 3 1 .941 1.12 .960 2.04 0-1-42
1909 BSN NL 22 OF 152 266 222 26 18 8 .932 1.63 .961 2.07 0-0-152
1910 NYG NL 23 OF 45 72 63 7 2 0 .972 1.56 .959 2.17 6-23-14
1910 NYG NL 23 1B 1 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 5.00 .984 10.40
1911 NYG NL 24 OF 55 81 72 7 2 0 .975 1.44 .960 2.15 17-6-33
1912 NYG NL 25 OF 117 261 230 20 11 4 .958 2.14 .956 2.24 1-93-26
1913 TOT NL 26 OF 105 250 236 9 5 3 .980 2.33 .960 2.21 51-44-13
1913 CIN NL 26 OF 28 69 64 3 2 2 .971 2.39 .960 2.21 9-8-11
1913 PHI NL 26 OF 77 181 172 6 3 1 .983 2.31 .960 2.21 42-36-2
1913 PHI NL 26 1B 1 10 7 2 1 0 .900 9.00 .986 10.40
1914 PHI NL 27 OF 126 303 270 17 16 3 .947 2.28 .957 2.13 87-32-8
1915 PHI NL 28 OF 98 193 177 5 11 0 .943 1.86 .959 2.12 90-0-8
8 Seasons OF 758 1498 1327 103 68 19 .955 1.89 .959 2.14 252-199-313
2 Seasons 1B 2 15 12 2 1 0 .933 7.00 .985 10.40
8 Seasons TOT 760 1513 1339 105 69 19 .954 1.90 .959 2.16 252-199-313
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
1908 BSN NL 21 43 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 42 43 0
1908 PIT NL 21 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 0
1909 BSN NL 22 152 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 152 152 0
1910 NYG NL 23 80 80 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 23 14 45 0
1911 NYG NL 24 88 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 6 33 55 0
1912 NYG NL 25 125 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 93 26 117 0
1913 PHI NL 26 88 88 0 0 1 0 0 0 42 36 2 77 0
1913 CIN NL 26 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 8 11 28 0
1914 PHI NL 27 138 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 87 32 8 126 0
1915 PHI NL 28 112 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 0 8 98 0
8 Seasons 876 876 0 0 2 0 0 0 252 199 313 758 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

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1909 NL  152 (3rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1909 NL  26 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1909 NL  18 (1st)
1914 NL  16 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1913 NL  .980 (3rd)

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