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Harry Blake

Harry Cooper Blake

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: June 16, 1874 in Portsmouth, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: July 7, 1894
Teams (by GP): Spiders/Perfectos 1894-1899

Final Game: October 9, 1899
Died: October 14, 1919 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, OH
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1894 CLV NL 20 OF 73 146 120 16 10 4 .932 1.86 .915 2.28 0-4-69
1895 CLV NL 21 OF 84 147 119 13 15 3 .898 1.57 .917 2.18 0-0-84
1896 CLV NL 22 OF 103 213 184 17 12 5 .944 1.95 .933 2.16 0-12-92
1896 CLV NL 22 SS 1 9 2 4 3 0 .667 6.00 .903 5.60
1897 CLV NL 23 OF 32 91 87 3 1 2 .989 2.81 .936 2.09 2-25-5
1898 CLV NL 24 OF 136 272 234 25 13 3 .952 1.90 .937 2.08 1-22-114
1898 CLV NL 24 1B 2 5 5 0 0 1 1.000 2.50 .976 10.35
1899 STL NL 25 OF 87 190 176 10 4 3 .979 2.14 .944 2.15 9-69-9
1899 STL NL 25 2B 4 32 13 14 5 2 .844 6.75 .941 5.55
1899 STL NL 25 1B 1 12 10 1 1 1 .917 11.00 .977 10.50
1899 STL NL 25 C 1 5 3 2 0 0 1.000 5.00 .952 4.60 0 1 2 67% 44%
1899 STL NL 25 SS 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .910 5.60
6 Seasons OF 515 1059 920 84 55 20 .948 1.95 .932 2.15 12-132-373
1 Season 2B 4 32 13 14 5 2 .844 6.75 .941 5.55
2 Seasons 1B 3 17 15 1 1 2 .941 5.33 .976 10.40
2 Seasons SS 2 10 3 4 3 0 .700 3.50 .904 5.60
1 Season C 1 5 3 2 0 0 1.000 5.00 .952 4.60 0 1 2 67% 44%
6 Seasons TOT 525 1123 954 105 64 24 .943 2.02 .932 2.24 12-132-373 0 1 2 67% 44%
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
1894 CLV NL 20 73 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 69 73 0
1895 CLV NL 21 85 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 84 0
1896 CLV NL 22 104 104 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12 92 103 0
1897 CLV NL 23 32 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 5 32 0
1898 CLV NL 24 136 136 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 22 114 136 0
1899 STL NL 25 97 97 0 1 1 4 0 1 9 69 9 87 0
6 Seasons 527 527 0 1 3 4 0 2 12 132 373 515 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

Assists as OF s c a p y
1898 NL  25 (2nd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1899 NL  .979 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1894 NL  born 1874-06-16 (7th)

             

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