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Benny Bengough

Bernard Oliver Bengough

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 168 lb.

Born: July 27, 1898 in Niagara Falls, NY
School: Niagara University (Lewiston, NY) (All Transactions)
Debut: May 18, 1923
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Browns 1923-1932

Final Game: September 24, 1932
Died: December 22, 1968 in Philadelphia, PA
Buried: St. Dominic's Cemetery, Torresdale, PA
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1923 NYY AL 24 C 19 14 10 74 58 14 2 2 .973 3.79 .975 4.82 0 10 12 55% 45%
1924 NYY AL 25 C 11 6 4 37 34 3 0 3 1.000 3.36 .972 4.61 1 2 2 50% 44%
1925 NYY AL 26 C 94 84 66 411 325 83 3 12 .993 4.34 .977 4.60 3 39 45 54% 45% MVP-24
1926 NYY AL 27 C 35 25 17 147 107 36 4 2 .973 4.09 .979 4.66 3 21 14 40% 43%
1927 NYY AL 28 C 30 25 19 147 114 31 2 0 .986 4.83 .974 4.63 0 18 12 40% 39%
1928 NYY AL 29 C 58 50 29 245 206 37 2 7 .992 4.19 .976 4.71 2 23 23 50% 41%
1929 NYY AL 30 C 23 20 8 56 47 8 1 1 .982 2.39 .976 4.69 1 9 5 36% 44%
1930 NYY AL 31 C 44 29 16 191 171 18 2 2 .990 4.30 .984 4.88 2 20 9 31% 42%
1931 SLB AL 32 C 37 37 33 147 119 26 2 6 .986 3.92 .981 4.92 0 14 16 53% 42%
1932 SLB AL 33 C 47 32 29 185 153 30 2 7 .989 3.89 .982 4.90 3 18 8 31% 43%
10 Seasons C 398 322 231 1640 1334 286 20 42 .988 4.07 .978 4.74 15 174 146 46% 43%
10 Seasons TOT 398 322 231 1640 1334 286 20 42 .988 4.07 .978 4.74 15 174 146 46% 43%
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
1923 NYY AL 24 19 14 19 19 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1924 NYY AL 25 11 6 11 11 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1925 NYY AL 26 95 84 95 94 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1926 NYY AL 27 36 25 36 35 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1927 NYY AL 28 31 25 31 30 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1928 NYY AL 29 58 50 58 58 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1929 NYY AL 30 23 20 23 23 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1930 NYY AL 31 44 29 44 44 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1931 SLB AL 32 40 37 40 37 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1932 SLB AL 33 54 32 54 47 0 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
10 Seasons 411 322 411 398 0 398 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1925 AL (24, 3%)
0.03 Career Shares (1251st)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1925 AL  325 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1925 AL  83 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1925 AL  45 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1925 AL  53.6 (4th)
1928 AL  50.0 (5th)
Career  45.6 (77th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1925 AL  4.34 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1925 AL  .993 (1st)

             

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