Bob Bescher

Robert Henry Bescher

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: February 25, 1884 in London, OH
High School: Notre Dame Prep (Fitchburg, MA)
Schools: University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN), Wittenberg University (Springfield, OH) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 1908
Teams (by GP): Reds/Cardinals/Giants/Indians 1908-1918

Final Game: September 1, 1918
Died: November 29, 1942 in London, OH
Buried: Kirkwood Cemetery, London, OH
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G	Awards
1908	CIN	NL	24	OF	32			84	82	2	0	2	1.000	2.63	.960	2.04	32-0-0
1909	CIN	NL	25	OF	117			274	247	14	13	4	.953	2.23	.961	2.07	115-0-2
1910	CIN	NL	26	OF	150			375	339	16	20	4	.947	2.37	.959	2.17	150-0-0
1911	CIN	NL	27	OF	153			302	267	21	14	2	.954	1.88	.960	2.15	153-0-0	MVP-17
1912	CIN	NL	28	OF	143			376	347	15	14	4	.963	2.53	.956	2.24	143-0-0	MVP-5
1913	CIN	NL	29	OF	138			315	283	22	10	2	.968	2.21	.960	2.21	138-0-0
1914	NYG	NL	30	OF	126			325	298	14	13	7	.960	2.48	.957	2.13	15-111-0
1915	STL	NL	31	OF	129			277	257	12	8	1	.971	2.09	.959	2.12	128-0-1
1916	STL	NL	32	OF	151			317	284	18	15	2	.953	2.00	.967	2.15	151-2-1
1917	STL	NL	33	OF	32			62	61	0	1	0	.984	1.91	.963	2.20	27-4-0
1918	CLE	AL	34	OF	17	14	14	32	28	3	1	0	.969	1.82	.962	2.26	0-3-14
1918	CLE	AL	34	RF	14	14	14	29	26	2	1	0	.966	2.00	.955	1.98
1918	CLE	AL	34	CF	3	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.967	2.63
	11 Seasons			OF	1188	14	14	2739	2493	137	109	28	.960	2.21	.960	2.16	1052-123-32
	1 Season (incomplete)			RF	14	14	14	29	26	2	1	0	.966	2.00	.955	1.98
	1 Season (incomplete)			CF	3	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.967	2.63
	11 Seasons			TOT	1188	14	14	2739	2493	137	109	28	.960	2.21	.960	2.16	1052-123-32

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	LF	CF	RF	OF
1908	CIN	NL	24	32	32	32	0	0	32
1909	CIN	NL	25	124	124	115	0	2	117
1910	CIN	NL	26	150	150	150	0	0	150
1911	CIN	NL	27	153	153	153	0	0	153
1912	CIN	NL	28	145	145	143	0	0	143
1913	CIN	NL	29	141	141	138	0	0	138
1914	NYG	NL	30	135	135	15	111	0	126
1915	STL	NL	31	130	130	128	0	1	129
1916	STL	NL	32	151	151	151	2	1	151
1917	STL	NL	33	42	42	27	4	0	32
1918	CLE	AL	34	25	25	0	3	14	17
	11 Seasons			1228	1228	1052	120	18	1188

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)) 1911 NL (17, 6%) 1912 NL (5, 27%) 0.33 Career Shares (578th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1910 NL 150 (4th) 1911 NL 153 (3rd) 1916 NL 151 (5th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1910 NL 339 (5th) 1912 NL 347 (2nd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1913 NL 22 (4th)
Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1910 NL 20 (1st) 1911 NL 14 (4th) 1916 NL 15 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1912 NL 2.53 (4th) 1914 NL 2.48 (3rd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1915 NL .971 (5th)

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