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Les Bell

Lester Rowland Bell

Positions: Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: December 14, 1901 in Harrisburg, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 1923
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Braves/Cubs 1923-1931

Final Game: September 27, 1931
Died: December 26, 1985 in Hershey, PA
Buried: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1923 21 STL NL 15 60 51 5 19 2 1 0 9 1 0 9 7 .373 .467 .451 .918 146 23 0 0 6
1924 22 STL NL 17 62 57 5 14 3 2 1 5 0 0 3 7 .246 .295 .421 .716 91 24 1 1 6
1925 23 STL NL 153 639 586 80 167 29 9 11 88 4 5 43 47 .285 .334 .422 .755 89 247 0 10 *5/6
1926 24 STL NL 155 666 581 85 189 33 14 17 100 9 54 62 .325 .383 .518 .901 137 301 0 31 *5 MVP-6
1927 25 STL NL 115 438 390 48 101 26 6 9 65 5 34 63 .259 .320 .426 .746 94 166 1 13 56
1928 26 BSN NL 153 656 591 58 164 36 7 10 91 1 40 45 .277 .323 .413 .736 96 244 0 25 *5
1929 27 BSN NL 139 553 483 58 144 23 5 9 72 4 50 42 .298 .364 .422 .786 98 204 0 20 *5/46
1930 28 CHC NL 74 281 248 35 69 15 4 5 47 1 24 27 .278 .342 .431 .773 85 107 0 9 5/3
1931 29 CHC NL 75 272 252 30 71 17 1 4 32 0 19 22 .282 .332 .405 .737 95 102 0 1 5
9 Seasons 896 3627 3239 404 938 184 49 66 509 25 5 276 322 .290 .346 .438 .784 102 1418 2 110
162 Game Avg. 162 656 586 73 170 33 9 12 92 5 50 58 .290 .346 .438 .784 102 256 0 20
STL (5 yrs) 455 1865 1665 223 490 93 32 38 267 19 5 143 186 .294 .351 .457 .808 108 761 2 55
BSN (2 yrs) 292 1209 1074 116 308 59 12 19 163 5 90 87 .287 .342 .417 .759 97 448 0 45
CHC (2 yrs) 149 553 500 65 140 32 5 9 79 1 43 49 .280 .337 .418 .755 90 209 0 10

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1923 21 STL NL 60 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 0.7 7 0.7 0.0 $ 6
1924 22 STL NL 62 -1 0 0 0 -3 1 2 -1 -0.1 2 0.2 -0.3 $ 6
1925 23 STL NL 639 -13 0 0 0 -3 5 19 8 0.8 11 1.1 -0.3 $ *5/6
1926 24 STL NL 666 30 -1 0 0 -9 5 19 44 4.5 53 5.4 -0.9 $ *5 MVP-6
1927 25 STL NL 438 -5 -1 0 0 -6 4 13 5 0.5 11 1.1 -0.6 $ 56
1928 26 BSN NL 656 -7 -3 0 0 -4 5 19 10 1.0 14 1.4 -0.4 $ *5
1929 27 BSN NL 553 -4 -3 0 0 -11 4 16 2 0.3 13 1.3 -1.0 $ *5/46
1930 28 CHC NL 281 -7 -1 0 0 -3 1 8 -2 -0.1 1 0.1 -0.2 $11,000 5/3
1931 29 CHC NL 272 -2 -1 0 0 1 1 8 7 0.7 6 0.6 0.1 $ 5
9 Seasons 3627 -5 -10 0 0 -38 27 106 80 8.3 118 11.9 -3.6 $11,000
STL (5 yrs) 1865 15 -2 0 0 -21 16 55 63 6.4 84 8.5 -2.1 $
BSN (2 yrs) 1209 -11 -6 0 0 -15 9 35 12 1.3 27 2.7 -1.4 $
CHC (2 yrs) 553 -9 -2 0 0 -2 2 16 5 0.6 7 0.7 -0.1 $11,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1926 24 STL NL WS NYY W 7 30 27 4 7 1 0 1 6 0 2 2 5 .259 .300 .407 .707 11 1 0 0 1 0
1 WS 7 30 27 4 7 1 0 1 6 0 2 2 5 .259 .300 .407 .707 11 1 0 0 1 0

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1923 STL NL 21 SS 15 15 15 96 35 53 8 9 .917 5.87 .939 5.80
1924 STL NL 22 SS 17 15 15 95 44 42 9 8 .905 5.06 .949 5.76
1925 STL NL 23 3B 153 153 152 471 151 284 36 39 .924 2.84 .939 2.98
1925 STL NL 23 SS 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .940 5.70
1926 STL NL 24 3B 155 155 155 441 165 254 22 25 .950 2.70 .953 2.99 MVP-6
1927 STL NL 25 3B 100 93 91 251 85 142 24 13 .904 2.27 .945 2.96
1927 STL NL 25 SS 10 9 9 63 16 41 6 8 .905 5.70 .944 5.50
1928 BSN NL 26 3B 153 153 153 518 177 314 27 37 .948 3.21 .943 3.06
1929 BSN NL 27 3B 127 127 124 320 107 198 15 15 .953 2.40 .953 2.88
1929 BSN NL 27 2B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 5.80
1929 BSN NL 27 SS 1 1 1 7 4 1 2 0 .714 5.00 .950 5.60
1930 CHC NL 28 3B 70 59 58 174 63 102 9 14 .948 2.36 .950 2.85
1930 CHC NL 28 1B 2 2 2 21 18 3 0 1 1.000 10.50 .990 10.20
1931 CHC NL 29 3B 70 62 59 195 66 118 11 18 .944 2.63 .944 2.85
7 Seasons 3B 828 802 792 2370 814 1412 144 161 .939 2.69 .946 2.96
5 Seasons SS 44 40 40 262 99 138 25 25 .905 5.39 .944 5.71
1 Season 1B 2 2 2 21 18 3 0 1 1.000 10.50 .990 10.20
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 5.80
9 Seasons TOT 875 844 834 2655 931 1555 169 187 .936 2.84 .946 3.12
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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 on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1926 NL (6, 30%)
0.30 Career Shares (608th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1926 NL  4.5 (6th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1926 NL  4.5 (4th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1926 NL  5.4 (1st)

Batting Average s c a p y
1926 NL  .325 (9th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1926 NL  .518 (5th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1926 NL  .901 (5th)

Games Played s c a p y
1925 NL  153 (1st)
1926 NL  155 (3rd)
1928 NL  153 (3rd)

At Bats s c a p y
1925 NL  586 (10th)
1926 NL  581 (6th)
1928 NL  591 (8th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1926 NL  666 (5th)
1928 NL  656 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
1926 NL  189 (4th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1926 NL  301 (2nd)

Doubles s c a p y
1926 NL  33 (8th)
1928 NL  36 (8th)

Triples s c a p y
1926 NL  14 (7th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1926 NL  17 (4th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1926 NL  100 (3rd)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1925 NL  47 (9th)
1926 NL  62 (3rd)
1927 NL  63 (2nd)

Singles s c a p y
1926 NL  125 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1926 NL  137 (5th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1926 NL  115 (2nd)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1926 NL  29 (3rd)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1926 NL  2.8 (3rd)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1926 NL  64 (4th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1926 NL  243 (5th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1926 NL  .703 (6th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1926 NL  31 (3rd)
1928 NL  25 (5th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1926 NL  11.8 (5th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1926 NL  34.2 (5th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1925 NL  434 (4th)
1926 NL  423 (10th)
1928 NL  452 (5th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1925 NL  153 (1st)
1926 NL  155 (1st)
1927 NL  100 (4th)
1928 NL  153 (1st)
1929 NL  127 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1925 NL  151 (2nd)
1926 NL  165 (2nd)
1928 NL  177 (1st)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1925 NL  284 (2nd)
1926 NL  254 (3rd)
1928 NL  314 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1925 NL  36 (1st)
1926 NL  22 (2nd)
1927 NL  24 (1st)
1928 NL  27 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1925 NL  2.84 (5th)
1928 NL  3.21 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1928 NL  .948 (4th)
1929 NL  .953 (5th)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 29 (805), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 10 (1206), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 12 (1389), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  5. Billy Johnson (922)
  6. Garrett Atkins (922)
  7. Sammy Hale (921)
  8. Elmer Smith (917)
  9. Dave Nilsson (915)
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  1. Tom Tresh (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Pinky Whitney (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. George Grantham (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Pinky Whitney (934)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Wil Cordero (936)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Odell Hale (945)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Odell Hale (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
193028Chicago Cubs$11,000Undated HOF clip
Career to date (may be incomplete)$11,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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